Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    X95/265
  • Title
    Draft Conveyance
  • Date free text
    23 Jul 1889
  • Production date
    From: 1871 To: 1889
  • Scope and Content
    Draft Conveyance: Parties: (i) Henry Francis King of 17 Whitehall Place [Middlesex, esquire [crossed out]; Theodore Arthur Merry of Castlemore House, Bicester [Oxfordshire], esquire; William Leonard Wrenford of 5 Tretower Road, West Kensington [Middlesex], esquire; (ii) Robert Charles Thomas Merry, esquire and Isabella, his wife [crossed out]; Frederick Thomas Elworthy of Wellington [Somerset], esquire; Samuel Armitage of Pendleton, Manchester [Lancashire], esquire; (iii) Thomas Barnes of Bolton le Moors [Lancashire], esquire [crossed out]; (iv) Edmund Waller Vyse, esquire; (v) Thomas Sworder of Luton, esquire Reciting: - indenture of 29 Mar 1871 in which George Pope Thirkell assured (a) to use of (iv); - mortgage of 15 Mar 1875 in which (iv) and Henry Vyse borrowed £12,000 at 6% interest from John Merry; - agreement of 22 Dec 1877 between (iv), Henry Vyse and John Merry altering rate of interest to 4.5% from 15 Mar 1878; - further advance of 26 Apr 1875 in which Frederick Thomas Elworthy, Samuel Armitage, Thomas Barnes and Robert Vaughan Tidman lent £12,000 to Henry Vyse, George Pope Thirkell, Edmund Waller Vyse, Howard Vyse and Francis Thirkell, in addition to £25,000 already lent on mortgage; - will of John Merry of 1878 devising and bequeathing all real and personal estate to his sole executor Robert Charles Thomas Merry; - death of John Merry on 1 Mar 1882 and proof of his will in PPR on 3 Apr 1882; - marriage settlement of 18 Jun 1882 between Robert Charles Thomas Merry, Isabella King and their trustees Theodore Arthur Merry, Edward Glyn Taddy and Henry Francis King in which Robert Charles Thomas Merry assigned £12,000 mortgage to the trustees; - Robert Charles Thomas Merry married Isabella King on 19 Jul 1882; - death of Robert Vaughan Tidman on 4 Feb 1885; - death of Edward Glyn Taddy on 14 Jul 1886; - assignment of 30 Jul 1888 of £12,000 mortgage in marriage settlement to new trustee William Leonard Wrenford in place of Henry Francis King; - transfer of mortgage of 29 Jun 1889 from Frederick Thomas Elworthy, Samuel Armitage and Thomas Barnes to Frederick Thomas Elworthy and Samuel Armitage; - £10,000 plus interest was now owing to (i); - £29,000 with some interest was now owing to Frederick Thomas Elworthy and Samuel Armitage; - it was agreed that the £3,300 purchase money for (a) should be divided with £3,000 paid to (i) and £300 to (iv); - Frederick Thomas Elworthy and Samuel Armitage were satisfied that the other premises in the mortgage of 26 Apr 1878 were sufficient security for the loan Operative Part: - (v) paid £3,000 to (i) and £300 to (iv); - (i) and Frederick Thomas Elworthy and Samuel Armitage, at request of (iv), and (iv) conveyed (a) to (v) Property [as shown on attached plan at 100ft:1in scale]: (a) Holly Lodge, between the London Road and Chapel Street, Luton with stables, outbuildings, lawns, pleasure grounds, cottages and pieces of land containing together 2a 3r 28p Witnesses: - Henry Sparks, clerk to Rowcliffes Rawle & Company of 1 Bedford Row, London, solicitors; - W.H.Fawsitt, of 48 Morley Street, Manchester, secretary; - Howard Vyse of 76 Wood Street, London, warehouseman
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