Reference
R6/4/1/1
Title
Copy Conveyance
Date free text
17 Feb 1919
Production date
From: 1861 To: 1919
Scope and Content
Copy Conveyance
Parties:
(i) Herbrand, 11th Duke of Bedford;
(ii) Sir Walter Roper Lawrence G. C.I. E, C. B., G. C. V. O. of 94 Eaton Square, London; Hon. Victor Alexander Frederick Villiers Russell of 17 Hornton Street, Campden Hill, London;
(iii) Mark Abraham of Watergate Farm, farmer
Reciting:
- conveyance of 30 April 1885 of (a) from (1) Rev. Thomas Isaac Guest and Dame Mary Ann Page Turner, his wife; Rev. Frederick Henry Marvel Blaydes; Frederick Saint Vincent Ricketts and Katherine Jane, his wife; (2) John Henry Warre and Joseph James Maberly; (3) Samuel Harvey Twining; Rev. Charles Seward Beachcroft; George Frederick Downing Fullarton to (4) Francis Charles Hastings, 9th Duke of Bedford and his trustees (5) Hon. William Edward Sackville West and Sackville Arthur Cecil;
- under the will of Francis, 7th Duke of Bedford (i) is tenant for life of (a) and (ii) are trustees with power to sell provided they have the approval of (i);
- (i) would retain the deeds in Schedule 2
Operative Part:
- (iii) paid £7,000 to (ii) by direction of (i);
- (i) conveyed (a) to (iii)
Property [as shown on included [plan]:
(a) Watergate Farm, Hockliffe in the parishes of Battlesden and Milton Bryan with acreages as shown in Schedule 1
Schedule 1:
Battlesden
- pasture of 27 acres;
- pasture of 17.878 acres;
- arable of 19.565 acres;
- pasture of 21.352 acres;
- farmhouse, buildings, yards and garden of 1.668 acres;
- pond of 0.194 acres;
- orchard of 0.768 acres;
- pasture of 1. 603 acres;
- ford of 0.009 acres;
- pasture of 16.950 acres;
- pasture of 34.278 acres;
- old sand pit of 1.203 acres;
- two cottages and gardens of 0.588 acres;
- arable of 48.432 acres;
- pasture of 34.476 acres
Milton Bryan
- pasture of 17.625 acres;
- pasture of 12.615 acres;
- pasture of 8.493 acres;
- plantation of 0.182 acres;
- pasture of 4.014 acres;
- arable of 23.639 acres;
- pasture of 20.167 acres;
- arable of 17.760 acres
Schedule 2
- conveyance of 30th April 1885: (1) Rev. Thomas Isaac Guest and Dame Mary Ann Page Turner, his wife; Rev. Frederick Henry Marvel Blaydes; Frederick Saint Vincent Ricketts and Katherine Jane, his wife; (2) John Henry Warre and Joseph James Maberly; (3) Samuel Harvey Twining; Rev. Charles Seward Beachcroft; George Frederick Downing Fullarton; (4) Francis Charles Hastings, 9th Duke of Bedford; (5) Hon. William Edward Sackville West and Sackville Arthur Cecil;
- acknowledgement of 12th October 1904 of cancellation of Lands Improvement Company charge of Watergate Farm;
- substitution of trustees of 9 October 1874: (1) Francis Charles Hastings, 9th Duke of Bedford; (2) Charles Romilly; (3) George Russell; (4) Samuel Whitbread M. P.;
- substitution of trustees of 31st January 1883: (1) Francis Charles Hastings, 9th Duke of Bedford; (2) Charles Romilly and Samuel Whitbread; (3) Hon, William Edward Sackville West and Sackville Arthur Cecil;
- substitution of trustee of 20th April 1894: (1) Herbrand, 11th Duke of Bedford; (2) William Edward Sackville West; (3) Lord Sackville Arthur Cecil; (4) Cosmo Romilly;
- substitution of trustee of 18th October 1905: (1) Herbrand, 11th Duke of Bedford; (2) Cosmo Romilly; (3) Sir Walter Roper Lawrence;
- substitution of trustee of 7th February 1910: (1) Herbrand, 11th Duke of Bedford; (2) Cosmo Romilly; (3) Walter Roper Lawrence; (4) Hon, Victor Alexander Frederick Villiers Russell; (5) Trustees
Witness:
- Richard G. Taylor of Grays Inn, London, solicitor
Examination of the original conveyance of 27th February 1919 on 7th March 1919 by J. H. Edwards and A. G. Davies, clerks to Frederic Thomas Tanqueray of Woburn, solicitor
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