Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    BorBE11/7/1-2
  • Title
    Lease and Release: (1) William Baskerville, Gun Street, Spital Fields, London, tailor, cousin and heir at law of Henry Baskerville, late of Bedford, currier, deceased and also administrator of the goods and chattels of Miles Baskerville, late of Woburn, Bedford, deceased (2) John Fuller, Stanwick, Northamptonshire, carpenter, Mary Holmes, Rushton, Northamptonshire, widow, Ann Ell, Woodhurst, Huntingdonshire, widow, Thomas Hall, Woodhurst, gardener, administrator of the rights and credits of his late wife Elizabeth (3) Benjamin King, Bedford, gentleman. Conveyance by (1) and (2) to (3) in consideration of £7 to (1) and £53 to (2) - messuage or tenement late in the occupation of Henry Baskerville, since of Elizabeth Houghton, widow (heretofore called Elizabeth Pycraft), and now of Whitley Sale in Bedford St Paul, abutting: Southward on St Paul's church yard next or near the north west end of the said church yard and Northward on Stonehouse Lane. Which messuage was purchased by Henry Baskerville of Thomas Woodward, gentleman. Witnesses: Richard Lovesay, Whitley Sale, George Haggitt, George Nunns
  • Date free text
    15,16 April 1778
  • Production date
    From: 1778 To: 1778
  • Scope and Content
    Reciting that Henry Baskerville seised in property below and that by his will dated 6 Mar 1762 divided all his lands and real estate to his wife Mary for life or until her remarriage, and then to his brother Robert Baskerville and his sister Elizabeth Pycraft for the life of the survivor, and then all his property in Bedford and Wilden to Mr John Gurney of Bedford and his heirs in trust to sell and to apply the money arising from the sale of the estate in Bedford to his cousin John Fuller and to the two sisters of John Fuller and to the testator’s cousin Miles Baskerville, the share of any testator dying before they inherited to his cousins Matthew Baskerville and Matthew Baskerville of London, tailors. Reciting death of Henry Baskerville and probate of will in Archdeaconry of Bedford and that testator's wife, brother and sister are all dead; that at the time the will was made John Fuller had three sisters living, Mary Holmes, Ann Ell and Elizabeth Hall then the wife of Thomas Hall, and Elizabeth Hall survived testator's wife but has subsequently died and that John Gurney survived testator, but has since died and his heir at law is an infant and cannot act, and that doubts have arisen about intention of testator, but that parties have joined in this conveyance.
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