Reference
R6/2/10/18
Title
Conveyance
Date free text
1 Dec 1903
Production date
From: 1861 To: 1903
Scope and Content
Conveyance
Parties:
(i) Eliza Swabey of Southend House, Bury Saint Edmunds [Suffolk], widow;
(ii) Charles Ernest Hensley of Pratsham Grange, Dorking [Surrey], esquire;
(iii) Herbrand, 11th Duke of Bedford;
(iv) William Edward Sackville West, of Basil Mansions, Begravia [London], late lieutenant-colonel, Grenadier Guards; Cosmo Romilly of 25 Old Broad Street, City of London, esquire
Reciting:
- will of Francis, 7th Duke of Bedford of 7 May 1861 creating a trust;
- death of Francis, Duke of Bedford on 14 May 1861;
- proof of the will of Francis, Duke of Bedford in PPR on 31 July 1861;
- (iv) were current trustees of the will of Francis, Duke of Bedford;
- will of Thomas Swabey of 5 August 1879 appointing his nephew Charles Ernest Hensley of 7 Stanhope Place [Middlesex], esquire, his brother Henry Burchfield Swabey of Farringdon [Berkshire], clerk in holy orders and William Charles Tetley, his wife’s brother-in-law as executors and trustees and devising his real estate in Aspley Guise to his wife Eliza for her widowhood, remainder to the use of their children;
- death of Thomas Swabey on 21 December 1883;
- proof of the will of Thomas Swabey in PPR on 26 April 1884;
- death of Henry Burchfield Swabey on 13 May 1899;
- R6/2/10/16
Operative Part:
- (iv) paid £4,000 to (ii) as trustee by direction of (i);
- (i) and (ii) granted (a) to (iv)
Property [as shown on included plan]:
(a) dwellinghouse called Woodcote in Aspley Guise with stables, chaise house, outbuildings, gardens, shrubberies, pleasure grounds and grass paddocks adjoining comprising 7 acres, 2 roods, 19 perches in the occupation of Arthur Grimsagh Cecil Grimshawe;
(b) arable land containing three acres adjoining (a)
Witnesses :
- M. A. Willis Ginger of Knapp Hill, Woking [Surrey], widow;
- C. H. R. Hensley of Pratsham Grange, Dorking, gentleman;
- Rowland E. Prothero of Bedford Office
Level of description
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