Reference
ST1690/1
Title
Abstract of Title of J.M.Layman to a piece of freehold land at Shefford. Lots 1 and 2.
Date free text
1837
Production date
From: 1799 To: 1837
Scope and Content
Abstract of Title of J.M.Layman to a piece of freehold land at Shefford. Lots 1 and 2.
(I) Inclosure award for Campton cum Shefford of 23 Oct 1799 awarding to Duke of Bedford a piece of land of 0a 1r 32p in Butterfields Close, Shefford bounded: NW by second described private road; NE by first allotment [of 0a 1r 13p] to Benjamin Gilbert; SE by allotment to Sir John Throckmorton and Hon.James Talbot; SW by first allotment to Thomas Wells
This land was exchanged by Duke of Bedford to Thomas Hailey who then exchanged it to Charles Cole who then exchanged it to Benjamin Gilbert
(II) Feoffment of 11 May 1803
Parties:
(i) Benjamin Gilbert of Shefford, blacksmith;
(ii) James Layman of Shefford, surgeon
Operative Part:
(i) enfeoffed (a) to (ii) for £29
Property:
(a) 0a 1r 32p in Butterfields Close, Shefford bounded: NW by private road; NE by land of Benjamin Gilbert; SE by allotment to Sir John Throckmorton and Hon.James Talbot; SW by first allotment to Thomas Wells
(III) Certificate of contract for redemption of Land Tax of 14 Mar 1810 by James Layman for 5/10 - land described as cottage, barns, buildings, yard and garden and a close of land
(IV) Certificate of registry of contract and exoneration of Land Tax of 23 Apr 1810
(V) Will of James Layman of 28 Jul 1826, proved in PCC on 10 Mar 1827:
- appointing George Henry Cooper of Shefford, draper and George Honeybone Field of Clifton, farmer as executors;
- devising to his executors all real estate in trust to permit his wife to occupy the cottage formerly in occupation of Swanson for her life, and to sell his estate at Hanchet End [Suffolk] and all real estate in Shefford subject to the life interest of his wife in Swanson's former cottage
(VI) Conveyance by Lease & Release of 13-14 Apr 1827
Parties:
(i) George Henry Cooper; George Honeybone Field;
(ii) Harriet Kitty Layman, widow of James Layman;
(iii) Thomas Times, late of Shefford, then of Bedford, gentleman;
(iv) Joseph Weston, late of Shefford, grocer, then of Westmoreland Place, City Road [Middlesex], gentleman;
(v) James Milner Layman of Shefford, surgeon;
(vi) William Arch of Shefford, draper
Reciting:
- mortgage of 29 May 1808 from Benjamin Gilbert to William Chapman not affecting this abstracted title;
- Conveyance by Lease & Release of 19-20 Sep 1809 in which land mortgaged in 1808 was conveyed to James Layman, with Thomas Times as his trustee by Benjamin Gilbert, with an assignment of William Chapman's mortgage term;
- death of James Layman on 28 Jul 1826
Operative Part:
- (v) paid £262 to (i) and 10/- each to (ii) and (iii);
- (i), (ii) and (iii) released (a) to (v)
Property:
(a) piece of land of 0a 1r 21½ p, part of the allotment of 0a 1r 32p, bounded NW by private road; NE by (b); SE by land of Sir John Throckmorton and Hon.James Talbot; SW by remaining part of 0a 1r 32p purchased by Joseph King, Samuel King and John Saunderson and in occupation of James Milner Layman;
(b) land forming NE boundary of (a) containing 16 perches;
(c) three cottages built by James Layman deceased on (a)-(b) subject to life interest of (ii) in one cottage in occupation of Catherine Layman
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