Reference
R6/63/31/3
Title
Articles of Agreement
Date free text
21 Dec 1744
Production date
From: 1744 To: 1744
Scope and Content
Articles of Agreement
Parties:
(i) Joseph Spinage of Saint Paul, Covent Garden [Middlesex], mercer and Mary, his wife;
(ii) John, Duke of Bedford
Reciting:
- lease and release by way of marriage settlement of 9-10 Jun 1737 (1) Mary Spinage (then Mary Elphick of Woburn, widow of Edward Elphick); (2) Joseph Spinage; (3) Francis Cook of Milton Bryan, gentleman and Virtue Savage of Woburn, spinster of a moiety of (a)-(b);
- Rebecca Lamb was entitled to the other moiety of (a)-(b) and conveyed it to (ii) in R6/63/31/1-2
- (ii) had contracted with (i) to buy Mary Spinage's moiety of (a)-(b)
Operative Part:
- (i) agreed to convey (a)-(b) to (ii) within six months of Lamb Elphick becoming 21 or dying, for £170
Property:
(a) corner house in Woburn "fronting E onto the road by the George Inn there" and N to Market Place or Market House in occupation of Thomas Darling and let at £7 per annum;
(b) house fronting N towards Market House and adjoining E on (a) in occupation of Thomas Burbidge, let at £10 per annum and known as Coach & Horses
(a)-(b) were copyhold of the Manor of Woburn Abbotts until enfranchised on 8 Apr 1734 to Mary Spinage
Witnesses:
- Samuel Davis;
- John Sheffard;
- Ambrose Reddall;
- Richard Ward
Level of description
item