Scope and Content
Reciting:
1) Lease & release
Jane Bell, spinster of Bedford, vendor
Thomas Beach Whitecourt of Ampthill, purchaser
Thomas Brooks of Kilariels, trustee
messuage in parish of St.Mary, Potter Street, Bedford, with garden
Abutting:
West: Lane from Potter Street to Duck Mill Lane
East: William Berrill the younger
South: Potter Street
north: Land below
Piece of meadow or pastures
Abutting:
West: Lane from Potter street to Duck Mill Lane
East: Formerly Charles E. Valuer Esq.
South: land above
north: Duck Mill Lane
Occupier: Jane Bell, formerly William Whitworth, earlier William Teedon
1841
2) Memorandum of agreement
Thomas Beach Whitecourt of Leamington
John Green of Woburn
Indentures of lease and release above, with 52 other deeds, to be held by John Green as security for repayment of £1,000 loan of 4.5% interest
1869
3) Conveyance
Thomas Beach Whitecourt (vendor)
John Green (releases the property)
L.B. Moore (purchaser)
Property as above. Consideration £400 paid by Moore to Green
31 Jan 1872
4) Mortgage in £2,200 and interest at 4.5%
Lenders: Samuel Berry of Sutton, farmer (the elder), Edward Dudley of Blunham, farmer, John Carrington Conquest of Bedford, attorney
Borrower: L.B. Moore
Said piece of ground in Potter Street, with 8 messuages erected or being erected there.
25 Mar 1872
5) Certificate of redemption of Land Tax
Parcel of ground as above
abbutting:
south: Potter Street
west: lane from Potter Street to Duck Mill Lane
north: Duck Mill Lane
east: E. William Berrill
occupied by Edward Smith (previously Jane Bell, as above)
area: 1a 1r 7p
4 Apr 1872
6) Equitable charge by Moore to secure £250 advanced by John Carrington Conquest
7) Loan by Frederick William Conquest of Biggleswade to L.B. Moore £400 for 1 year at 5% p.a.
Above property conveyed to Conquest subject to repayment of loan, together with certain leasehold properties not the subject of this abstract
5 Sep 1874
8) Conveyance
i) Samuel Berry the elder, Edwin Dudley, Samuel Berry the younger, then of Offley, Hertford, farmer, Joseph Whitehouse and john Carrington Conquest, all creditors
ii) John Carrington Conquest, creditor
iii) Frederick William Conquest, creditor
iv) L.B. Moore, vendor and debtor
v) John Hull of Bedford, builder, purchaser
Reciting the above indentures 1872-1874
Mortgage to i), interest paid, principal of £2,200 owing
Loan by ii) of £250, unpaid
Loan by iii) of £400, £91 15s 9d with interest, paid; £308 4s 3d owed
Part of property in above certificate of 1872 etc., see plan
Sold with consent i), ii), iii) consideration to be divided between parties of i), debts owed to ii) and iii) to be secured by other property of iv)
consoderation £99 12s 11d
24 Dec 1874
9) Conveyance:
i) John Hull
ii) Eugenia Boswell of 6 Grove Place, Bedford, spinster
Piece of land in Potter Street, parish of St.Mary, Bedford, with abuttments as on plan to 9) with messuage, buildings, coach house, stable and premises thereon or to be built threron to be known as no. _______ Bedford.
Consideration £600.
16 Aug 1875
10) 2nd codicil to will of said Eugenia Boswell.
Beneficiary John Albert Boswell; said messuage and premises with stables behind.
Codicil made 2 Nov 1875; original will made 20 Apr 1870
Executor, under original will, J.H. Cydall of 12 Southampton Buildings.
Testatrix deceased 28 Sep 1878 at Potter Street
Will and codicils proved 25 Oct 1878