Scope and Content
Recites:
1) Admission of H.M. Lindsell to Fairfield Estate including close of arable land (4a 3r 12p) in Flemings Piece alias Spinney Field (formerly called Town Field) and 11 messuages erected on south west corner and 10 newer cottages.
abuttments:
east: land late of thomas Handley
south: Sun Street or Potton Road
west: Fairfield Lane leading from Sun Street to Fairfield and Shortmead
north: land late of John Dalton, H.M. Lindsell and ___ Course
28 Apr 1893
2) Deed confirming mortgage in £1,500
i) Henry Martin Lindsell (mortgagor)
ii) Fanny Maria Twiss of Beverley in the East Riding of Yorkshire, widow, Edward Francis Twiss of Beverley, lieutenant in 1st East Yorkshire Regiment, Clifford Charles Horace Twiss of Christ Church, Oxford, undergraduate (mortgagees)
Recites conditional surrender of 27 May 1859 and subsequent deed and mortgage of £1,500 and 4% interest per annum.
Further charge of £1,000 and 4% interest
mentions 11 tenements for the first time
27 May 1862
£1,500 still owing 27 May 1902
3) Warrant to enter up satisfaction on above conditional surrenders
29 Sep 1920
4) Mortgage in £2,250
i) Henry Martin Lindsell, mortgagor
ii) Fred William Ashby, Edmund Ashby, Robert Ashby (mortgagees)
property:
a) freehold, Shortmead Street
b) copyhold including:
close or piece of arable land in Flemings Piece alias Spinney Field with the 11 messuages erected on the south waest corner, called Bricheno's Row and 10 newer cottages fronting st John's Street.
30 Sep 1920
5) Conditional surrender of above
30 Sep 1920
6) Transfer of mortgage of £2,000
i) Henry Martin Lindsell, mortgagor
ii) Fred William Ashby, Edmund Ashby, Robert Ashby (mortgagees)
iii) Henry Franklin of Biggleswade ( new mortgagee)
Consideration £2,000 (£500 paid off)
9 Jun 1922
7) Warrant to enter up satisfaction by Ashbys
9 Jun 1922
8) Conditional surrender in £2,000
i) Henry Martin Lindsell, mortgagor
ii) Henry Franklin, mortgagee
10 Jun 1922
9) Reconveyance
i) Henry Franklin, mortgagee
ii) Henry Martin Lindsell, mortgagor
above premises
Consideration £2,000 paid by ii) to i)
25 Dec 1923
10) Warrant to enter up satisfaction
25 Dec 1923
11) Will of Henry Martin Lindsell (died 30 Jan 1925). Appoints executors and trustees for sale, mother. Arthur Knox Lindsell and Robert James Lindsell and William Fred Ashby Fletcher
Made 27 Nov 1924: proved Northampton District Probate registry 6 Mar 1925
12) Admission of Robert James Lindsell and William Fred Ashby Fletcher to above property
24 Apr 1925
13) Conveyance
i) Robert James Lindsell of The Cottage, Hills Road, Cambridge, Esq., William Fred Ashby Fletcher of Biggleswade, solicitor (vendors)
ii) Maurice Bennett of Biggleswade, baker and confectioner (purchaser)
Eleven messuages or cottages with gardens, outhouses and premises in Sun Street and Fairfield Road, called Bricheno's Row: 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, 45, 47 and 49 Sun Street, Biggleswade. Total area 2a 3r 38p, marked on traced plan
AND right of cartway over ground on west side of property adjoining, recently contracted to be sold by i) to Charles Carr
Consideration £107 5s paid by ii) to i)
28 Sep 1925
14) Surrender by R.J.. Lindsell and W.F.A. Fletcher to use of M. Bennett
29 Sep 1925
15) Admission of Maurice Bennett
3 Nov 1925
16) Compensation agreements
i) Maud Rosalind Lovell of Hincheslea, Brockenhurst, Hants (Lady of Manor)
ii) Maurice Bennett, of Biggleswade, retired baker and confectioner (purchaser)
Property as above
20 Jan 1934
17) Memorandum on dorse of above (conveyance)
i) M. Bennett (vendor)
ii) M. Bennett, Fred James Bennett, Cornelius Bennett (purchasers)
plot of land with frontage to Fairfield Road, Biggleswade of 190ft and depth of 150ft
18) Note: field part of tithe field Number 68a commuted value of tithe rent charge £1 5s 2d; annual value of tithe annuity estimated at £1 6s 5d
Abstract prepared by Hooper & Fletcher. 1937