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Assignment of mortgage and further charge: (1) Rev Robert Chapman of Ravenstone, Buckinghamshire, administrator of Roger Chapman of Bedford, gentleman, deed (2) Elizabeth Cockman of Stamford, Lincolnshire, widow, executrix of Samuel Richardson of Bedford, gentleman, deed; Letitia Battison of Bedford, widow (3) Corporation of Bedford (4) Sir Robert Bernard of Gratham, Huntingdonshire, baronet. (4) Lends further sum of £650 to (3).

16 Dec 1780, reciting mortgage of 2 Aug 1742

From: 1742 To: 1780

Reciting mortgage of 2 Aug 1742, (3) to William Harris of Biddenham, gentleman, for £500 on: - messuage homestall etc in parish of St Mary abutting east on St Johns parish and west on St Marys parsonage; - messuage or inn formerly called the Blackmoor's Head but then the Horse and Jockey on the south and messuage occupied by Charity Beaumont on the north; - messuage in the Fish market abutting the Fish Market on the east, St Paul's churchyard on the west; - another messuage abutting west on the Fish Market; - messuage in Gaol Lane abutting south on said lane; - another messuage abutting west on Gaol Lane; - messuage called the Post House and Post House Close in St Lloyd in the parish of St Paul, with the pigeon house and 4 acres of arable, of which 2 acres are in Windmill Field and 2 acres in Conduit Field; - ground room or shop taken out of the Inner Stone House under the Guildhall in Bedford; - Stoneyloves pightle then used as a garden; - messuage or tenement and buildings thereon erected in Horn Lane and Gravel Lane; - 2 shops in the Saturday Butcher Row, one called the Stulps, abutting east on the passage leading from St Paul's Churchyard into the west end of said Butcher Row, and the other abutting south on a passage leading from St Pauls Churchyard to the Fish Market, with the upper room loft or chamber, then or late 2 rooms over the first mentioned shop; - a shop in Butcher Row abutting south on the said Churchyard; - shop in the Butcher Row over against the south end of a little alley leading from Butcher Row to Stonehouse Close; - shop and penthouse in Butcher Row abutting south in said Churchyard; - messuage in the Fish Market, and another messuage next to it, abutting west on the Fish Market; - messuage and shop in the Fish Market, abutting west on St Paul's churchyard, north on a passage into the said Churchyard; - messuage being a corner house, south in Gaol Lane, West on Duck Lane now commonly called White Horse Street; - ground room under the west end of the Chambers adjoining the Guildhall inclosed about with stone walls belonging to the foundation of the said Guildhall buildings then used as a back room, abutting eastward upon the partition of the prison called the Stonehouse and north on Stonehouse Lane; - and little yard adjoining; - shop with chamber over it on the south corner of Mill Lane abutting west on the High Street towards the Market House; - 2 chambers or rooms over the said Market House; - soil and ground on the north side of the River Ouse, between the common highway in Newnham Furlong and the river, leading from Castle Close extending directly eastwards near to the Plank Bridge there belonging Newnham Mills with the willow trees growing thereon called the Hermitage Willows; - 3 acres of meadow in Fenlake Meadow, Cardington for £500. Reciting assignment of mortgage 13 Aug 1761 executor of William Harris to Roger Chapman, for £300, £200 having been repaid.

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Chapman, Robert,
Chapman, Roger,
Cockman, Elizabeth,
Richardson, Samuel,
Battison, Letitia,
Bernard, Robert,
Harris, William,
Beaumont, Charity

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