Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    SH49/3/3
  • Title
    Assignment of mortgage
  • Date free text
    20 Dec1758
  • Production date
    From: 1738 To: 1764
  • Scope and Content
    Parties: (i) Edward Walker of Leighton Buzzard, victualler; (ii) John Partridge of Eggington, yeoman; (iii) Mary Coventry of Buttermilk Hall, Drayton Beauchamp [Buckinghamshire] Reciting: - mortgage by demise for a thousand years of 15 May 1738 between (1) John Partridge and Susannah, his wife, late Susannah Valentine, spinster, daughter and devisee of William Valentine, deceased; (2) Mary Keene of Berkhampstead Saint Peter [Hertfordshire], spinster; (3) John Shotbolt of Leighton Buzzard, tanner in which (2) lent £100 to (3) secured on (a) with a covenant by (1), along with William Fox and Elizabeth, his wife and Henry Smith and Elizabeth, his wife to execute a fine sur conizance de droit come co etc to John Shotbolt for three cottages, twenty acres of land, five acres of meadow, ten acres of pasture and common of pasture for all cattle in Toddington, Leighton Buzzard and Stanbridge; - the principal remained outstanding; - SH49/3/2 - Operative Part - (ii) paid 5/- to (i); - (iii) paid £50 to (ii); - (i), by direction of (ii) assigned (b)-(k) to (iii) Property: (a) 13 acres of arable, ley, pasture, meadow and swerd dispersed in the fields of Stanbridge formerly in the occupation of William Valentine, then John Partridge which had been conveyed; (b) an acre in Bonneland Furlong, Muggendon Field, land formerly of Robert Bawdrye E and John Iremonger W; (c) half an acre in Lang Furlong with land of Henry Honnor W and Thomas Pearson E; (d) half an acre in Lang Furlong with land formerly of Gabriel Rawlyne W and Thomas Cooke E; (e) half an acre in Great Dinges in Muggendon Field with land formerly of Thomas Pearson E and Thomas Ellingham, now John Capon W; (f) an acre in Lang Furlong with land formerly of John Tearle E and Thomas Ellingham, now John Capon W; (g) a land in Lang Furlong with land of John Iremonger E and that formerly of Thomas Pearson W; (h) a land in Great Dinges with land formerly of Thomas Buckmaster W and John Iremonger E; (i) a headland in Great Dinges with land of formerly of Andrew Bawdrey E; (j) a land "on the sunny side of Muggendon Hill" with land formerly of John Tearle E and Thomas Clarke W; (k) land on the "sunny side of Charlton Hill" with land formerly of Henry Honnor W and John Tearle E Witnesses: - Charles Pyne; - R. Pyne; Endorsed: "July 30th 1764 I do hereby acknowledge that I deliver or resign up to Mr. Thomas Partridge all my Right, Claim or Title to the land within mentioned for Value Received by me…" the rest is unreadable
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