BorBE3/48

Messuages in St John’s Street, Bedford. Copy Lease and Release: (1) Ernim Susannah Cressy of Bedford, widow, and John Edwards of Silsoe, carrier, devisees of will of John Cressy of Bedford, tanner (2) Edward Chapman of Bedford, cordwainer and alderman. 6 messuages in St Johns Street. £430.

25/26 March 1791

From: 1791 To: 1791

Three messuages of which front the said street towards the east, and the other 3 stand in a range backwards on the north side of the yard adjoining and belonging to said messuages occupied by Nathaniel Tebbs, Thomas Crafford, James Hipwell, William Long, John Gibbs and Thomas Gascoigne and barn on the north side of said yard occupied by John Read; new erected buildings used as granaries and corn chambers occupied by John Bigg and John Cressy on north side of said yard and building used as a granary on south side of said yard, occuppied by Miss Towersey and John Cressy, all of which were built on the site where a capital messuage and meltings formerly stood, heretofore the estate of John Faldo, tanner, deed; and yard, part whereof was a garden extending from St Johns Street west to a close of pasture called Jewels, and said close called Jewels, in parish of St Mary, cont. 2a.

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Cressy, Ernim Susannah,
Edwards, John,
Cressy, John,
Chapman, Edward,
Tebbs, Nathaniel,
Crafford, Thomas,
Hipwell, James,
Long, William,
Gibbs, John,
Gascoigne, Thomas,
Read, John,
Bigg, John,
Towersey,
Faldo, John

non-agricultural leases, carrier, tanner, cordwainer, alderman, Bedford St John's Street, granary, St. Mary Bedford