Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    MB2/SN1/6/1492/1
  • Title
    Conveyance on the Appointment of New Trustees of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel at St.Neots, Huntingdon.
  • Date free text
    26 Aug 1868
  • Production date
    From: 1824 To: 1868
  • Scope and Content
    Parties: (i)James Cooper of St. Neots, boot and shoemaker, Thomas Rose of Eltisley, Cambs, farmer, John Browning the younger of Tempsford, farmer, Isaac Brightman of Eaton Socon, farmer, Samuel Marshall of Eaton Socon, market gardener, John Smith of Honeydon in the parish of Eaton Socon, farmer, James Day formerly of Colmworth and now of Great Gransden, Huntingdon, farmer and Joseph Judd of Great Gransden, shopkeeper. (ii)the said (i) and John Edwards of Potton, baker, Thomas Armstrong of Haul Weston, Hunts., farmer, Edward Mackaness of St. Neots, plumber and William Cooper of Fen Drayton, Cambs., seedsman. (iii)the said (i) and John Browning the elder of Tempsford, cornfactor, Thomas Bennett late of Marston, farmer, now in the United States of America and Joseph Bennett formerly of Tempsford and now of Wing, Bucks farmer, (as the Trustees of the Wesleyan Chapel Estate at St. Neots). (iv)John Browning the elder Recitals: (I)Indentures of Lease and Release dated 1 and 2 Nov 1824 from Samuel Bennett, John Ekins, John Mackaness, James Cole and Richard Cole (i) to John Browning, Thomas Bennett, James Day, John Fielding, Robert Pattison, William Green, Peter Chandler, William Cook, Edward Mann, Philip and James Pratt and James Fielding (ii), for the consideration therein mentioned, of the Chapel and hereditaments as in (a), unto the use of (ii) upon trust as therein mentioned for 'the benefit of the people called Methodists'. (II)Indentures of Lease and Release dated 29 and 30 Jun 1840 between John Browning, Thomas Bennett, James Day, John Fielding, Robert Pattison, William Green, William Cook, Edward Mann, Philip Pratt and James Fielding (i), Ann Fielding (ii), James Day (iii) and John Browning, Thomas Bennett, James Day, Philip Pratt, Robert King, Joseph Bennett, Thomas Ekins, John Jubb, George Hilson, Jesse Chessum, Abraham Staines and Christopher Smith (iv), whereby the Chapel and land as in (b) were conveyed to (iv) upon trust as detailed in (I). (III)Indenture dated 11 Oct 1861 between William and John Pentelow and Joseph Newman Oliver (i) and Robert King, Henry Inskip, James Cooper, Isaac Brightman, John Smith, Samuel Marshall, John Edwards, Thomas Armstrong, John Browning the younger, Joseph Judd, Edward Mackaness, James Lightfoot, William Cooper and John Jubb (ii) whereby the land as in (c) was conveyed from (i) to (ii) for £550, to the use of (ii) their heirs and assigns forever as joint tenants, including a proviso that (ii) purchased the land to be added to the Wesleyan Chapel Estate at St. Neots, to which the estate adjoined to be conveyed to the Trustees for the said purchased price. (IV)Deaths of Robert King, Henry Inskip and James Lightfoot, three of (ii) in (III) leaving parties as in (ii); the Trustees of the Wesleyan Chapel Estate at St. Neots being the parties as in (iii), have paid to (ii) all the monies which they paid in respect of the lands as in (c) and conveyed, amounting to £550. (V)(iii) have been named and appointed to be the Trustees of the hereditaments as in (a)-(c), to be conveyed and assured unto them upon trust. For the purpose of vesting the land as in (a)-(c) in (iii) upon trust; also for this purpose (i) conveys the land as in (a) and (b) to (iii) and in consideration of £550 paid by (iii) to (ii), (ii) conveys to (iii) the land as in (c); land (a)-(c) being as follows: (a)all that building in the West side of the yard formerly belonging to Elizabeth Arnold commonly called the George Yard in St. Neots converted into a Chapel of the Wesleyan Methodists and also all those three dwelling houses which adjoined each other, all that slip or piece of ground in the front of the same site; and also all those other two pieces of land near to the site of the three tenements and buildings. (b)all that land situate near the High Street in St. Neots late in the occupation of Mary Willams, deceased, containing by admeasurement in length 133 ft 6” and in breadth 23ft 6” (c)all that tenement in St. Neots near Huntingdon Street and also all slip of ground behind the said land; and also all piece of garden ground lying N of the said messuage, formerly in the occupation of John Rutter and now in the occupation of the Trustees of the said Chapel Habendum: To the use of (iv), his heirs and assigns, and to the use of (iii) their heirs and assigns upon trust, subject to the provisos of (I).
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