• Reference
    WL1000/1/COP/1/3
  • Title
    Conveyance
  • Date free text
    16 Oct 1895
  • Production date
    From: 1835 To: 1895
  • Scope and Content
    Conveyance Parties: (i) James Coombs, medical doctor; John Lilley Anthony, chemist; George Carruthers, insurance agent; Rowland Hill Coombs, surgeon; Joseph Joyce, assessor of taxes; Edward Paine Rose, draper; James Atkins, grocer; Charles Aveline, gentleman; Alfred George Carruthers, draper; Thomas George Carruthers, draper; Henry Everitt Corbold, schoolmaster; Rev. Samuel McFarlane; Isaac Peck, cabinet maker; Thomas Edward Rose, draper; Herbert William Robinson, bookseller; John Rogers, miller; Thomas Spencer, builder; James Warton, builder, all of Bedford; Joseph Lilley Prole of Elstow, farmer; George Starkins Wallis of Sawbridgeworth [Hertfordshire], gentleman – all Trustees of the Charity of John Costin and Richard Furness for poor persons of the Congregation of the Old Meeting in Saint Paul’s, Bedford; (ii) Herbrand Arthur Russell, 11th Duke of Bedford Reciting: - (i) had agreed to sell (a) to (ii) for £612; - the Charity Commissioners agreed to the sale by an Order of 26 April 1895 Operative Part: - (i) conveyed (a) to (ii) for £612 Property (shown on included plan): (a) piece of land of 3 acres, 20 poles in Cople with the beerhouse, cottage and outbuildings erected thereon, in the occupation of William Skilleter and William Goodship respectively bounded E by the highway to Cople, to N, S and W by the remaining lands of (ii). Covenant by (i) to produce scheduled deeds to (ii) on demand Schedule: - indenture of 2 November 1835: (i) Rev. Samuel Hillyard, Thomas Kilpin, Ebenezer Malden, Richard Hensman and John Prole; (ii) Joseph Hill, Thomas Green, Benjamin Prole, John Joyce, Edward Chapman, John Brasier, Thomas Lester, Edward Berrill and William White; - indenture of 8 July 1851: (i) Benjamin Prole, Joseph Hill, John Joyce, John Brasier, Thomas Lester, William White and Edward Berrill; (ii) James Burr, Benjamin Everitt, Charles Berrill, James Cooms, William Wells Kilpin and Benjamin Prole junior; - indenture of 21 October 1876: (i) William White, Charles Berrill and James Coombs; (ii) John Carrington Conquest; (iii) William White, Charles Berrill, James Coombs, John Lilley, Anthony Thomas Carling; George Carruthers, Rowland Hill Coombs, William Deane, James Thomas Hobson, Joseph Joyce, Samuel Leach Kilpin, Charles Fox Lester, John Paine, Joseph Lilley Prole, Edward Paine Rose and George Starkins Wallis; - indenture of 26 October 1894: (i) James Coombs, Joseph Lilley, Anthony George Carruthers, Rowland Hill Coombs, Joseph Joyce, John Lilley Prole, Edward Paine Rose and George Starkins Wallis; (ii) William Deane and Samuel Leach Kilpin; (iii) James Atkins, Charles Aveline, Alfred George Carruthers, Thomas George Carruthers, Henry Everitt Corbold, Rev. Samuel McFarlane, Isaac pack, Thomas Edward Rose, Herbert William Robinson, John Rogers, Thomas Spencer and James Warton Witnesses: - Arthur D. Matthews of Sawbridgeworth, clerk to Gibson Tuke and Gibson , bankers of Sawbridgeworth; - Percival J. Source, clerk to Conquest and Clare of Bedford, solicitors; - Arthur O. Kay, clerk to Conquest and Clare; - Robert Thompson, clerk to Conquest and Clare; - Thomas T. Wing of Bedford Estates Office Endorsed Indenture of 12 December 1895 Parties: (i) Herbrand Arthur Russell, 11th Duke of Bedford; (ii) William Sackville West, late Lieutenant Colonel in the Grenadier Guards, of Lime Grove, Bangor; Cosmo Romilly of 25 Broad Street, City of London, esquire, trustees of the will of Francis Russell, 7th Duke of Bedford Reciting: - (i) had purchased (a) above with the monies belonging to (ii) Operative Part: - (i) conveyed (a) above to (ii) Witness: - Thomas T. Wing of Bedford Estates Office
  • Level of description
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