• Reference
    WG331-332
  • Title
    Conveyance (lease and release): The Trustees for sale under the will of William Fowler junior, and the trustees for sale and the executors of the will of George Fowler, both of St Neots, brewers, to John Day of Bedford, esquire; for £40,000. [Brief abstract of each property.] The deed recites several earlier conveyances, etc from 1800. [BH 407 dated 1844 is a similar deed dealing with numerous inns in South Bedfordshire.]
  • Date free text
    1814
  • Production date
    From: 1814 To: 1814
  • Scope and Content
    Brief abstract of each property: - A capital messuage or mansion house in the Priory, St Neots; - The messuage and bell-foundry adjoining (part of the Priory); - Two cottages in New Lane, St Neots; - The Falcon, St Neots; - The Queen's Head, St Neots; - The Jolly Brewers, and several cottages, St Neots; - The King's Head, Potton [see WG 86-95], previously in the occupation of Robert Fowler, deceased; - The Queen's Head, Wyboston ,in the occupation of George Emery; bounded north by the messuage formerly called the Gun Inn, then the Old Cannon, south by the messuage formerly of John Franks, and west by the Turnpike Road; - A cottage formerly used as an inn, known by the sign of the George, now divided into several dwelling-houses, bounded east by the king's highway, then a private road leading to the allotment of William Fowler [see WG 63-74]; - A new-erected public house known as the George, and two tenements adjoining, at the North End of Eaton Socon, lying between the brook north, and the tenement late of Henry Ashley, esquire south, abutting east on the common street; - A plot of land in Vineyard Field containing 5 acres 2 roods 1 perch, awarded on the Enclosure of Eaton [bounds given]; - The site of a cottage at Maltmans Gardens in Eaton Socon, abutting west on the Great North Road; - A cottage at the North End of Eaton, formerly called Hempland, afterwards called Maltmans Gardens, in the occupation of Henry Coy; - The Chequers in Topham End in Eaton Socon or Colmworth [see WG 298-308]; - The Sun in Eaton Socon, lately divided into two dwellings, and a close adjoining containing 2 acres, bounded south by the vicarage house, and east by the turnpike road; - The Bell in Wyboston Little End, otherwise Moor End; - The Golden Ball, Eynesbury; - The White Lion, Buckden; - The Cross Keys, Sawtry; - The Blue Bell, Back Street, Kimbolton; - The Crown in Nether Dean [see WG 44-54]; and two allotments containing 7 acres in Deepdale Field in Nether Dean; - The Chequer, Little Gransden; - The White Lion, in Holme, Biggleswade [see WG 96-98]; - The White Horse in Keysoe Row, and an allotment in Stocking Field in Keysoe containing 2 acres 1 rood 27 perches, all in the occupation of John Goss (described in an earlier recital of a deed of 1802 as a messuage in Keysoe Row, and a pightle adjoining containing 1/2 acre lying between a close called Wakelings east, and Pagg Lane west, abutting on the common street north, and the common field south. [This description identifies WG 11-28 with the White Horse]; - The Hatchet, Spaldwick; - The Three Tuns, St Neots (formerly the Bird in Hand); - The Blue Ball, Huntingdon Street, St Neots; - The Fox and Hounds, St Neots; - The King's Head, Market Place, St Neots; - The Fighting Cocks (now divided into two tenements), St Neots; - The Nag's Head, Chawson in Roxton [see WG 29-39]; - The Swan, Eltisley; - Toothill Close, Ellington; - The Pyed Horse, Graffham; - The Fountain (now divided into three tenements), St John's Street, Bedford; - The Three Horse Shoes, Papworth; - The Bell, Brampton; - The Plough, Great Gransden; - The Sun, St Neots; - A messuage in Silver Street alias Gaol Lane, in the parish of St Peter, Bedford (now the Black Bull); - The White Lion, Buckden; - The Crown, and land, Buckden; - The Three Shuttles in Tilbrook, and 1 acre 3 roods 10 perches of newly enclosed land in Tilbrook; - The Ringers, Abbotsley; - 1 acre of land at Berry Hill, Spaldwick; - The Bell, Alconbury; - The Angel, Brampton; - The Bell, Brampton; and three commons in Portholme; - The Dragon, Brampton; - The Three Horse Shoes and an allotment [described], in Swineshead; - The Ship, St Ives; - The Mermaid, Ellington; - The Nag's Head, Eynesbury.
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