• Reference
    C853
  • Title
    Mortgage: £400 (£350 + £50) (copy) (i) John Ewesdin of Hitchin, Maltser, & wife Elizabeth (nee Papworth) who was niece & executor of Cordeila Papworth of Hitchin, spinster. (ii) Anthony Sherlock of Luton, innholder, son & devisee of John Sherlock of Luton (iii) Richard Hitchin of Hitchin, gent.
  • Date free text
    8 March 1749
  • Production date
    From: 1749 To: 1749
  • Scope and Content
    recites:- 1717, 22 July: mortgage £200 John & Anthony Sherlock, then of Surrey, distiller, to Joan Welch, widow. - - the White Horse, Marketplace, Luton (adjoining messuages of John Richards & Widow Philips); close adjoining, 2 acres, abutting on Barbers lane, and at lower end on River Lee, and at one side on land of Hugh Burt; 1731, 6 Dec.: will of John Sherlock; devises to son Anthony residue of term became vested in Samuel Marsom, gent.; 1743, 4 June: assignment to Cordelia Papworth; - - property as in recited deed; witnesses: William Barker, Thomas Taylor.
  • Level of description
    item