Reference
LL1/127
Title
Lease for 21 years; at annual rent of £162: John Carrington of Biggleswade, baker, John Bewsher, vicar of St Neots, Ste. White, Ll.D., rector of Conington (county of Huntingdonshire), James Williamson, vicar of Biggleswade, William Gardner, master of the free school of Biggleswade, and Peter Mason, master of the free school of Holme, to George Brooks of Chancery Lane, London, esquire.
Date free text
31 May 1806
Production date
From: 1806 To: 1806
Scope and Content
Recites (A) Will of Sir John Cotton of Conington, baronet (died 1731), dated 29 September 1726, whereby he devises his estates in Stratton to John Farrar and Thomas Dodd, in trust for sale and purchase of lands within 50 miles of Biggleswade, in the names of his cousin John Cotton, John Farrar and Thomas Dodd, charged with payment two-ninths of the rents to the Vicar of St Neots, two ninths to the Vicar of Conington, one ninth to the Vicar of Biggleswade, and two ninths to parsons to teach 12 poor children of Holme [in Huntingdonshire, see LL1/128/1] and Biggleswade. (B) Will of Sir John Cotton of Stratton Hall, baronet, [died 1752] (cousin of first-named Sir John) dated 18 April 1750, whereby he devises all his property to his four daughters Jane Hart, Elizabeth Stuart Bowdler, Frances Cotton and Mary (Countess of Denbigh and Desmond, then Mary Cotton, spinster). (C) Suit in Chancery, 1755: Thomas Hart and wife Jane, Thomas Bowdler and wife Elizabeth Stuart, Frances Cotton and Mary (Countess etc.) versus John Dodd (heir of Thomas Dodd). (D) Decree in Chancery, 1756. (E) Order of Chancery, 1757, approving of new trustees under (A), viz: Robert Mitchell, John Waller, John Prior and William Carrington. (E) Conveyance, 1778: (i) William Carrington; (ii) Robert Hudson, George Gibson, William Pitts, Paului Phelips and Michael Cleasby; and (iii) Edward Rudd; [as recited in LL1/125/1 and LL1/126]. And (F) 1/126.
[Property as in LL1/126] [Endorsed: Assignment, dated 21 May 1816: George Brooks to John Thomas Brook (his younger son) of Twickenham, esquire. The said property.] Witnesses: William Knight (of Biggleswade), Samuel Davis junior (attorney of Ampthill). [Found in a bundle labelled “Title Deeds belonging to the Rectory Impropriate of Flitwick”, in handwriting of Mr George Brooks.]
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