Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    WL1000/1/Wils/2/13
  • Title
    Abstract of Title of Thomas Jarvis to freehold messuage known as The Red Lion and premises in Wilshamstead
  • Date free text
    1874
  • Production date
    From: 1841 To: 1874
  • Scope and Content
    Abstract of Title of Thomas Jarvis to freehold messuage known as The Red Lion and premises in Wilshamstead (I) WL1000/1/Wils/2/11-12 (II) WL1000/1/Wils/2/13 Indenture of 24 February 1871 Parties: (1) William Harris, formerly of Hull [Yorkshire], draper, now of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; Henry Pestell of Broughton [Buckinghamshire], farmer; John Pestell of Elstow, farmer; (2) William Harris; Charles Eve of Newport Pagnell [Buckinghamshire], miller; Henry Pestell; (3) Thomas Jarvis of Bedford, common brewer Reciting: - Will of William Pestell of 1 November 1856 devising to (1) all his real estate not in trust and to (2) all his real estate held in trust upon trusts for sale; - death of William Pestell on 5 November 1856 and proof of his will on 4 February 1857 in PCC Operative Part: - (3) paid £690 to (2); - (2) conveyed and John Pestell confirmed (a)-(f) to (3) Property: (a) public house formerly called the Bell, then the Three Horseshoes, now the Red Lion with stable, outbuildings and appurtenances in Wilshamstead, for many years in the occupation of Mary Cooper, now in the occupation of John Groom as undertenants of Sir William Long and (ii); (b) adjoining pightle of pasture of half an acre abutting SW on a pightle of pasture abutting on the Vicar’s home glebe (i. e. (f) below); (c) yard and large barn adjoining (a); (d) pightle pf pasture adjoining (c) and abutting E on turnpike road from Bedford to Luton and NW on a small pightle of two roods, twenty poles conveyed to (iv) lying next to the Black Hat public house being (e) allotment of ground formerly situate on the Green but now part of the ground of (a), of two roods, nineteen poles bounded E by Luton Road, S by Church Road , part S and W by 7th allotment to Lord Carteret, part S and W by a cottage and garden of Lord Carteret and N by (a)-(d) , which had been awarded to Thomas Gadsby at inclosure in 1807; (f) orchard, garden or pightle of pasture in Wilshamstead of two acres on which a messuage stood formerly in the occupation of William Sharp, then Thomas Cooper abutting on the Vicar’s home close. Declaration by (3) to bar dower A note states that William Harris was deceased and that his executor was W. S. Trexhell, carriage manufacturer of Cincinnati.
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