Scope and Content
Relating to:
As to part
Conveyance
i) William Knight, 6 Shefford Road, Meppershall ii) Evelyn Millard Knight, 4 Shefford Road, Meppershall, spinster Elsie Mary Knight, same address, spinster, Hubert Harris, High Street, Meppershall, market gardener
Consideration - £4700
i) conveys to ii)
- piece of land (part of two pieces of land described in a conveyance of 4 June 1932 made between Samuel Bruce King and William Knight and Frank Knight) in parish of Meppershall (as shown in plan on deed)
- buildings and glasshouses erected thereon
To hold the same to the Purchasers as joint tenants upon trust to sell the same with power to postpone the sale it is declared that the proceeds of sale and income shall be held on trust for iii) in equal shares
Trustees to have full power until expiry of 21 years from death of last survivor of ii) to mortgage, lease property etc
i) acknowledges right of ii) to production of documents as in schedule
Schedule
19 November 1924 Conveyance, Alfred Lincoln, Sophia Lincoln and Samuel Bruce King
4 June 1932 Conveyance, S B King, i) and Frank Knight
4 June 1932 Mortgage - i) and Frank Knight with the Sandy and District Permanent Mutual Benefit Building Society
9 February 1951 Receipt
12 April 1933 Mortgage - i) and Frank Knight, with Charles Knight and also with Henry Evelyn Stewart Bird
26 February 1935 Receipt
2 March 1935 Further Charge - i) and Frank Knight with the Sandy and District B M B B S
9 February 1951 Receipt
14 July 1936 Further Charge - the same parties
9 February 1951 Receipt
26 June 1946 Letters of administration of Frank Knight, deceased
11 September 1947 Assent - personal representative of Frank Knight, deceased, to i)
12 September 1946 Declaration by i)
Sigs - all
Wit - F W Mobbs, engineer, 33, Fildyke Road, Meppershall 4 June 1951
Application for an official search in respect of land adjoining Meppershall High Street with glass houses erected thereon, under names of Knight and Harris 4 June 1951
Mortgage
i) Evelyn Millard Knight, Elsie Mary Knight, Hubert Harris
ii) William Knight
Consideration - £3000 paid by ii) to i)
i) jointly and severally covenant with ii) to repay said sum with 3% p.a. interest
i) demise to ii)
- piece of land (part of 2) etc
- buildings and glasshouses erected thereon
Term - 3000 yrs
Covenants to keep buildings and glass houses insured and in good repair
Sigs - all
Wit - F W Mobbs, engineer, 33, Fildyke Road, Meppershall 4 June 1951
Endorsed: Vacating receipt upon the balance of the mortgage having been repaid, by Ellen Knight, spinster, personal representative of William Knight, deceased 5 February 1958
Copy of marriage certificate (Shefford Church) between Frederick William Reynolds, 76, widower and postman, of 30 Bedford Road, Shefford (father Robert Reynolds, hay carter) and Elsie Mary Knight, 53, spinster, home duties, of 4, Shefford Road, Meppershall (father, Charles Knight, builder) 19 August 1961
Certificate of search relating to land at Meppershall under names of Knight, Reynolds, Harris and Lawrence 29 March 1963
Conveyance
i) Evelyn Millard Knight, Elsie Mary Reynolds, Hubert William Harris
ii) Michael Henry Foster
Consideration - £500 paid by ii) to i)
i) as trustees convey to ii)
- piece of land (as shown on deed)
Sig of i)
Wit - R Lash, electrician, Meppershall 3 April 1963
As to part
Deed of Grant - M H Foster to Eastern Gas Board 18 October 1960
Conveyance - A S Foster to M H Foster 31 March 1948
With memoranda 1951 - 1961
Official certificate of search 10 March 1948
As to the whole
Conveyance - Michael Henry Foster to Polehanger Farms Ltd 1 July 1970
Legal Charge by way of mortgage
i) Polehanger Farms Ltd ii) Barclays Bank
- land at Meppershall comprising 438a and buildings erected thereon 23 July 1979
Deed of Release
i) Barclays Bank ii) Polehanger Farms Ltd
i) surrenders property to ii) freed and discharged from the Legal Charge
i) acknowledges right of ii) to production of deeds as mentioned in 3rd schedule to deed of exchange of even date
- property as in schedule
Schedule
- two plots of land known as Sugar Loaf and Punch in Meppershall (as on plan attached)
- right of way over roadway
Sig - Leslie Charles Simpkins for i) 17 December 1979
With copy of power of attorney from Barclays Bank to L C Simpkins 6 September 1977