Reference
P105/25/1
Title
Peake's Charity (Cottage in Old Warden) Conveyance (Feoffment)
Date free text
4 Nov 1650
Production date
From: 1650 To: 1650
Scope and Content
1) Sir William Palmer of Clerkenwell, Middlesex, and Richard Sucklyn of Warden, shoemaker
2) Sir William Palmer of Hill in the parish of Old Warden; Robert Audley, Charles Wilson and Thomas Bridges of Old Warden, gentlemen; Thomas Best of Old Warden, yeoman; Thomas Prior of Hill, husbandman; John Baker junior of Warden, butcher; James Fisher, William Albon, Richard Landes and Thomas King of Old Warden, dairymen; and John Killingworth of Warden, husbandman
Conveyance by 1) to 2) for "divers good causes", of:
- cottage and close in Old Warden, in the occupation of John Underwood
To hold with all profits to the use of 1) for lives, and then to 2) for ever ON TRUST as follows:
1) during lives to pay from rents and profits to the Churchwarden: and Constables of Old Warden, 5 shillings at Easter and All Saints (i.e. in two equal portions) for the maintenance of the poor of Old Warden. This to be distributed yearly by the Churchwardens and Constables in the presence of the Vicar or curate. The sum of 5s. to be allotted for the repair of the highway between Old Warden and Hill, "which oftentymes with abundance of waters is very noysome and dangerous", according to the terms of the will of Edward Peake Esq., deceased. Surplus of rents to be paid to the Vicar or Minister and Churchwardens to distribute in Whitsun week and the first week in Lent among twelve "of the poorest people inhabitantes and housekeepers of the Parish of Old Warden" After the decease of 1), 2) are to lease the cottage from year to year according to the best value and to keep it in repair, or if rented under its value then repairs are to be paid by the tenant by annual agreement with the feoffees. When nine of the above trustees are dead, or when nine of other feoffees appointed are dead, then twelve persons of the "chiefest and most substantiall" inhabitants of Old Warden shall be elected as feoffees by "the greater number of Freeholders & subsidiemen" of Old Warden. The original feoffees still surviving to convey the premises to the twelve persons elected at the cost of the parishioners of Old Warden, for the same uses and intents as above, "the sayde assurance and Conveyance to be raysed and taxed in such manner & forme as the sayde inhabitantes used to make their rates for the reliefe of the poore of the sayde parishe." Witnesses: John Cradock, Lewis Day, Nicholas Day Seals: twelve seal strips à double queue, with fragments of two seals remaining.
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