Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    R6/14/1/1
  • Title
    Assignment of lease
  • Date free text
    11 Jun 1761
  • Production date
    From: 1757 To: 1761
  • Scope and Content
    Assignment of lease Parties: (i) John Stephens of Aylesbury [Buckinghamshire], clerk; Henry Stephens of Hinton [Gloucestershire], clerk; Philip Stephens of Camerton [Somerset], esquire [all executors of will of James Stephens, doctor in physic, deceased, their brother]; (ii) John, 4th Duke of Bedford; Charles, 2nd Viscount Fane, Baron of Loughgur; Robert Butcher of Saint George's, Bloomsbury [Middlesex], esquire Reciting: - lease of 26 Nov 1757 from (1) Dean and Chapter of Oxford Cathedral to (2) James Stephens of (a) from 10 Oct 1757 for 21 years; - deed poll of Oxford Cathedral of 26 Nov 1757 granting James Stephens power to sublet or assign the lease; - death of James Stephens on 1 Jun 1759 appointing (i) as his executors and probate of his will on 24 Jun 1760; - James Stephen had been acting as trustee for the trustees of will of John, 1st Duke of Marlborough and all his real estate had been conveyed, by decree of Chancery to George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough; - release of 30 May 1760 between (1) George, Duke of Marlborough; (2) Lord Charles Spencer, brother of (1); (3) John, Duke of Bedford; Charles, Viscount Fane; Robert Butcher in which (1) released all his Bedfordshire lands to (3) in trust for (2); - George, Duke of Marlborough, following the death of James Stephens, agreed that the lease of Cople Vicarage and tithes should be vested in (ii) in trust Operative Part: - (i) assigned the lease of (a) to (ii) for 10/- Property: (a) parsonage of Cople ["Copull"] called The Grange with tithes of grain, corn, hay and wood with houses, barns, stables, buildings, glebe lands, profits, commodities and advantages appertaining. Habendum - to (ii) for the remainder of the 21 year lease upon trusts set out in the release of 1760 Witnesses: - Hugh Hammersley; - Thomas Liles[?]
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