Reference
R6/5/2/23
Title
Copy Marriage Settlement
Date free text
16 Jun 1710
Production date
From: 1710 To: 1710
Scope and Content
Copy Marriage Settlement
Parties:
(i) William Beckett of Bedford, gentleman and alderman; Elizabeth Beckett, spinster, his youngest daughter;
(ii) Henry Lowen of Bedford, gentleman;
(iii) Robert Bell of Bedford, esquire; John Goodhall of Bedford, gentleman
Reciting:
- an intended marriage between (ii) and Elizabeth Beckett;
- William Beckett, as marriage portion for Elizabeth, agreed to settle (a)-(b) on (ii) as well as his interest in a leasehold messuage adjoining (a) ((ii) having already renewed the lease in his own name)
Operative Part
- William Beckett and (ii) (for £70 given to him by William Beckett) released (a)-(b) to (iii)
Property:
(a) inn called the Rose in Bedford, Saint Paul, formerly in the occupation of Thomas Hayes deceased, now Robert Clare;
(b) piece of ground containing two gardens and a passage way used with (a) [Rose Yard] which abuts: E on Castle Lane and partly on land late of Thomas Snagg; W partly on (a) and partly on the Ragged Staff; N on a messuage of William Beckett called the Ram; S on land formerly of Grew and now of [blank];
(c) messuage in Bedford, Saint Paul, formerly in the occupation of John Goodhall and Richard Freeborne, now Edmund Paxton abutting: E on the castle ground; W on the High Street ; N the messuage formerly in the occupation of Thomas Paucost now Mary Paucost; S the messuage formerly in the occupation of William Bayley deceased, now Elizabeth Yarnton, widow except so much of it as is in the occupation of Margaret Lowen, mother of (ii);
(d) messuage in Kempston and Bromham formerly in the occupation of Thomas Freeman, now William Staines and John Fowler and the orchard belonging;
(e) close of pasture near (d) called Home Close;
(f) two closes of pasture called Bushey Closes in Kempston containing together fourteen acres;
(g) five roods and one swarth of meadow in Box Mead, Kempston anciently used with (d);
(h) sixty acres of arable near The Box and Bridge End, Kempston
(c)-(h) being the inheritance of (ii)
Habendum:
- to (iii) to the use of William Beckett ((a)-(b)) until the wedding; then to the use of Henry and Elizabeth Lowen during their lives and the life of the longest lived; remainder to the heirs of Henry and Elizabeth Lowen; remainder to the heirs of Henry Lowen;
- to (iii) to the use of Henry Lowen ((c)-(h)) until the wedding; then to the use of Henry and Elizabeth Lowen during their lives and the life of the longest lived; remainder to the heirs of Henry and Elizabeth Lowen; remainder to the heirs of Henry Lowen
Witnesses:
- Robert Beckett;
- Edmund Hill;
- John Pepiatt
Copy of the settlement which was in the hands of William Staines of Biddenham made on 14 Apr 1759 and examined by John Marsh and John Chamberlin
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