Reference
X95/341
Title
Abstract of Title of Thomas Sworder to Bridge Hotel and adjoining house, Bute Street, Luton
Date free text
1897
Production date
From: 1844 To: 1897
Scope and Content
Abstract of Title of Thomas Sworder to Bridge Hotel and adjoining house, Bute Street, Luton
(I) Mortgage by Demise for 1,000 Years of 3 Oct 1844 [crossed out in the abstract]
Parties:
(i) John Lane;
(ii) Gibbon Newman Walker of Luton, gentleman
Operative Part:
- (i) borrowed £350 from (ii) secured on Bridge Hotel and adjoining cottage
(II) Conveyance of 1 Dec 1846
Parties:
(i) John Lane of Luton, straw hat manufacturer;
(ii) Gibbon Newman Walker, late of Luton, now of Markyate Cell [Hertfordshire], gentleman;
(iii) Rev.Thomas Sikes of Luton;
(iv) Frederick Burr of Luton, brewer
Reciting:
- release of 2 Oct 1844 (1) John Crichton Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute; (2) John Lane; (3) Samuel Lasse;
- (I) above;
- principal and interest owed on (I) now amounted to £367/10/-
Operative Part:
- (iii) paid £367/10/- to (ii);
- (iii) paid £317/10/ to (i);
- (ii) surrendered and (i) released (a) to (iii)
Property:
(a) piece of land with cottages lately erected thereon
(III) Lease of 30 Dec 1879 from (i) Rev.Thomas Sikes to (ii) Thomas Sworder for 21 years from 29 Sep 1879
(IV) Will of Rev.Thomas Sikes of Chevening Rectory [Kent] appointing his son Rev.Thomas Burr Sikes and his daughter Helen Louisa Sikes as executor and executrix and devised to them all his real estate held by way of mortgage
(V) Codicil to will of Rev.Thomas Sikes of 10 Aug 1887
(VI) Death of Rev.Thomas Sikes at Chevening on 4 Dec 1888
(VII) Proof of will and codicil of Rev.Thomas Sikes in PPR on 28 Mar 1889
(VIII) Conveyance of 24 Jun 1889
Parties:
(i) Thomas Burr Sikes; Helen Louisa Sikes;
(ii) Thomas Sworder
Reciting:
- (IV)-(VII)
Operative Part:
- (i) conveyed (a) to (ii) for £1,140
Property:
(a) plot of land with two messuages, workshops and other buildings erected thereon known as Bridge Hotel and Railway Coffee Tavern, 74 and 76 Bute Street, Luton extending on NW next Bute Street 43 feet, on SW next to land formerly of Frederick Gee, then Joseph Mardle, then Charles Haddon Osborn 55 feet 3 inches; NE next to George II public house 78 feet, SE next to property of [blank] 47 feet 6 inches and containing 10 poles 8 yards 3 feet
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