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PCAspleyGuise4/37
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Property in Woburn Lane Abstract of Title to premises at Aspley Guise (Moore’s sale - as to part of lot 2).
Date free text
1865, reciting documents from 1786 onwards
Production date
From: 1786 To: 1865
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Reciting lease and release of 3 and 4 March 1786 in which Francis Moore of Eggington released to Thomas Abbot Hamilton of Newport Pagnell [Buckinghamshire] for £1,000 two pieces of land formerly part of the common lands called Potter’s Fields in Aspley Guise on each side of a road from Aspley Guise to Woburn and containing 10/0/12 acres and were awarded to Robert Sawell at enclosure (total lands in occupation of Francis Moore and William Millard 102 acres), to be held by TAH to secure repayment of £1,000. Also reciting Deed of Covenant of 26 Jun 1789 between (i) Francis Moore and (ii) Patrick Renny, William Bull and Thomas Abbot Green. Thomas Abbot Hamilton had died intestate and Letters of Administration were granted to his sister, Ann, wife of Sam Greathead. Reciting marriage settlement (by lease and release) of 28 and 29 Aug 1788 between: (A) Ann Hamilton; (B) Sam Greathead; and (C) Patrick Renny, William Bull and Thomas Abbot Green (as trustees) in which (A) with the consent of (B) conveyed to (C) property as above; (C) had advanced to Francis Moore, the further sum of £2,000 and interest at 4½ % secured by bond of even date and Francis Moore had agreed that the premises should be a security for the repayment of £2,000 as well as of £1,000. The operative part was that (i) covenanted with (ii) that the premises should be a security for repayment of the said £3,000 and should not be redeemed until the full sum was repaid. Also reciting a lease and release of 9 and 10 Oct 1789 between (i) Patrick Renny, William Bull and Thomas Abbot Green and (ii) Francis Moore in which in return for £2,038/18/6 (the amount now due) (i) confirmed to (ii) the premises. Also reciting a certificate of redemption of Land Tax dated 9 Jul 1803 on a messuage, 4 cottages and 13 acres of land in Aspley Guise. Also reciting the will of Francis Moore of Eggington, esquire of 6 Feb 1809 leaving to his son-in-law Thomas Paget, Rev.Edward Tanqueray and his sister Ann Moore all freehold property in Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire and all other real estate in trust; to use of his son, John Patrick Moore for life with remainder to trustees; after death of JPM to the use of George Griffiths of Secondaries Office, Inner Temple, London, gentleman and Charles Savage of Fetter Lane, London, gentleman for 200 years to use of testator’s grandson John Vaux Moore (first son of JPM) and his heirs and to raise £2,000 for the testator’s two granddaughters Frances and Elizabeth Moore; when trusts satisfied, then term void. Proved in PCC on 6 Aug 1810. Also reciting deed of 18 Jan 1822 between (i) John Patrick Moore, (ii) Rev.John Vaux Moore of Aspley Guise, clerk (his son), (iii) William Gillam Saunders White of Bedford Row [Middlesex], gentleman, (iv) Thomas Oldham of Bedford Row [Middlesex], gentleman. (ii) was desirous of suffering a common recovery to bar entail in the will and had applied with (i) to concur with him and to make (iii) tenant of precipe to suffer the recovery. Therefore (i) at request of (ii) granted to (iii) two pieces of land formerly part of Potters Field then better known as Little Woburn Hill (5 acres), Plantation adjoining (5 acres) with messuage built on it and Woburn Hill, now arable (10 acres) all in Aspley Guise. Also reciting Recovery of Hilary Term 2 and 3 George III. Also reciting lease and release of 18 and 19 Aug 1831 (a mortgage) between (i) John P.Moore and John Vaux Moore and (ii) Joseph Maberley in which for £725 (i) released to (ii) property as above to secure repayment of the above sum. Also reciting lease and release of 1 and 2 Dec 1835 between (i) Joseph Maberly and (ii) John Vaux Moore (J.P.Moore having lately died); certain part of the above property had been sold to Thomas Parker by deed of 14 and 15 Feb 1834. In consideration of £725 paid to (i) by (ii), (i) released to (ii) all the above premises except those sold to Thomas Parker. Also reciting a deed of 20 Mar 1862 between (i) Rev.Edward George Griffith, Harriet Emma Griffith (executors of the will of Edward Griffith) and Caroline Mary Griffith, (ii) Francis Moore, John Vaux Moore, John Moore Paget and Elizabeth Jackson and (iii) John Vaux Moore. By a marriage settlement of 8 Jan 1839 between Elizabeth Jackson (then Elizabeth Susanna Moore), Hugh Jackson and John Vaux Moore and John Paget Moore, Elizabeth assigned to JVM and JPM £1,000. So in consideration of £1,000 paid by J.V.Moore to Francis Moore and £1,000 paid by J.V.Moore to himself and J.M.Paget as trustees (i) at the request of (ii) transferred to (iii) the above property for remainder of term of 200 years freed from sum of £2,000 in the will of Francis Moore, dec’d.Also reciting will of John Vaux Moore of 27 Feb 1863 in which he left to William Bacchus an annuity of £50 charged on real estate until £1,000 should be raised at the death of the testator’s sisters and on payment of this sum the annuity should cease as well as 3 freehold cottages at Aspley Guise occupied by William Bacchus, George Heath and Ann Wright. He also left to Truman Tanqueray and Thomas Lingard Green the residue of his real estate in trust to dispose of it after the deaths of the testator’s sisters. J.V.Moore died on 12 Jan 1864 and his will was proved in PPR on 22 Mar 1864. Also reciting deed of 24 Jan 1865 between (i) William Bacchus and (ii) Truman Tanqueray and Thomas Lingard Green. By a codicil of 23 Dec 1863 J.V.Moore revoked the legacy of £1,000 to (i) and instead gave him £2,000. (ii) were desirous to sell their part of real estate and had requested (i) to release the same estates from payment of the annuity which (i) agreed to do, being satisfied that the remainder of the estates were more than sufficient to secure payment of the legacy. (i) therefore discharged property in schedule from payment of the annuity and legacy. The schedule detailed a cottage, garden and builder’s yard in Woburn Lane Aspley Guise in occupation of Sam Chibnall. As to the other part of lot 2 Reciting conveyance of 29 Jan 1840 between (i) John Smith of Aspley Guise, carpenter, (ii) Mary Elizabeth West of Winslow [Buckinghamshire], spinster and (iii) Rev.John Vaux Moore of Aspley Guise, clerk in which (iii) paid £1 to (i) and (i) in execution of powers given by lease and release of 7 and 8 Sep 1837 between George Minnell and his wife Sarah, John Smith and George Fan Arnold appointed to the use of (iii) a triangular piece of ground in Aspley Guise with one side of 12 ft and another other side of 5 ft adjoining premises of (iii) and on which (iii) with consent of (i) had recently erected the corner of a shop. Also (ii) by the direction of (i) yielded up to (iii) the piece of ground and shop to the intent that residue of term of 1,000 years granted to (ii) by mortgage of 27 Dec 1837 between (i) and (ii) should be merged in the reversion vested in (iii).
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