Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    WL1000/1/Wils/2/5
  • Title
    Release and Assignment to attend the Inheritance
  • Date free text
    5 Apr 1782
  • Production date
    From: 1782 To: 1782
  • Scope and Content
    Release and Assignment to attend the Inheritance Parties: (i) Thomas Empy of Bedford, plumber and glazier; (ii) John Newton of Barton-le-Clay, coach maker, eldest son and heir at law of Megison Newton, clerk, late Vicar of Wilshamstead; (iii) Thomas Gadsby the younger of Bedford, gentleman; (iv) William Smith, clerk, Rector of Barton-le-Clay Reciting: - WL1000/1/Wils/2/1; - WL1000/1/Wils/2/2; - WL1000/1/Wils/2/3; - £100 outstanding but all interest paid; - (iii) had agreed purchase of (a)-(d) with (ii) for £215 Operative Part: - (iii) paid £100 to (i) by direction of (ii); - (iii) paid £115 to (ii); - (i) released (a)-(d) to (iii) Property: (a) orchard, garden, close or pightle of pasture of two acres in Wilshamstead whereon a messuage or tenement formerly stood in the occupation of William Sharp “but whereon now only stands a barn”; (b) close of arable, formerly pasture called Hawcroft, of five acres in Wilshamstead; (c) six selions of arable, meadow and grass in Windmill Field, Wilshamstead of six roods; (d) several pieces of arable, ley and sward dispersed in the common fields of Wilshamstead containing six acres formerly in the occupation of Widow Mayes, then Thomas Paine, then Thomas Livett, now John White and purchased by Megison Newton from Martha Bailey, widow (a)-(c) in the occupation of John White and had been purchased by Megison Newton from Thomas Denbigh and others. Operative Part: - (iv) paid 10/- to (i); - (i) assigned (a)-(d) to (iv) for the remainder of the term of 500 years in trust for (iii) Witnesses: - Jeremy Fish Palmer; - Thomas Kidman Examined 4 February 1841 by Edward Handscomb and Isaac Handscomb of Ampthill
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