• Reference
    C861-862
  • Title
    Conveyance (lease & release): £244 (i) Sarah Evans of Hitchin, widow of Thomas Evans, gent.; Rev. Richard Lucas of Ludlow, Clerk; Thomas Williams of London, stationer; William Bedford of Hitchin, draper; all devisees & executors of Thomas Evans (ii) Edward Smith of Luton, gardener; William Parsons of Luton, yeoman. (iii) Thomas Foster of Luton, cooper
  • Date free text
    26,27 Nov 1804
  • Production date
    From: 1804 To: 1804
  • Scope and Content
    recites;- will of Thomas Evans 4 May 1803, directing Luton estate to be sold; -- a cottage in Luton in Dunstable lane, occupied by William Hall, lately built (with 4 others) by Evans on site of 3 cottages which he pulled down and which he purchased of Barnard Manning Collins; & 1/2 acre behind same; abutting west on property to be conveyed to Joseph Pain, east on property to be conveyed to Thomas Foster, north on garden of ''one of the Tower Hill houses''; with right of way for Edward Smith with horses & carts along yard and across north end of Thomas Foster's garden (Smith paying 1/5 of expenses of meintaining gate & road); and right of access to well for Pain & Foster (they each paying 2/5 of cost of maintaining well); -- 5 pieces of arable land dispersed in Maindon Field, abutting north on Dunstable Road, now occupied by Daniel Gutteridge, James Kingham, John Brown, Edward Smith, Thomas Wood; & were conveyed to Evans by Rev. John Tremlett in 1788; owners & occupiers adjoining: Marquis of Bute, Rev. John Filmer, James Gutteridge, Daniel Gutteridge; Schedule of 11 deeds from 1732.
  • Level of description
    item