• Reference
    SL1/296
  • Title
    Mortgage in fee by Lease & Release:
  • Date free text
    17 & 18 Nov 1828
  • Production date
    From: 1828 To: 1828
  • Scope and Content
    i) Charles Short Benjamin Jefferies (devisees in trust under will of George Palmer, deceased) ii) Reverend John Short, Temple Balsall, Warwickshire, clerk Henry Couchman, gentleman reciting death of Thomas Street (one of the executors of will of George Plamer) in May 1825 i) have requested ii) to lend them £5500 to fulfil trusts of said will and have conveyed to them as security, by way of mortgage -capital messuage or farmhouse in Goldington, in occupation of John Davies, esquire, late of George Palmer, deceased, and now of John Palmer - croft adjoining called Dovehouse Close etc. (2 acres) - 8 pieces meadow in Great Meadow at Goldington (8acres) - 3 other pieces in Press Meadow in Goldington (3½ acres) - 3 pieces in Work Holme Meadow (5 acres 2 roods) - pieces arable in several open and common fields of Goldington --- In Windmill field ----- lands In Long Poll furlong (15 acres) ----- 10 lands in Blackbutts Furlong (2½ acres) ----- 19 lands and 2 gores in Renhold Brook furlong (8½ acres) ----- 25 other lands and 2 gores (9 acres 3 roods) ----- 23 lands in Lower Sheep lands (12 acres) ----- 2 lands in Middle Furlong (1 acre) ----- 7 lands in Windmill Hill (3 acres) ----- 5 lands in Sheeplands (1½ acres) ----- 34 lands and a headland in St.Neot’s Way furlong (12½ acres) ----- 44 lands in furlong S. of St.Neot’s Way furlong (10 acres) --- headland and 2 lands inclosed in lower part of – Lawes (1 acre) --- 4 lands and a gore (2 acres) --- 8 lands in great every year’s land (3 acres) --- 17 lands and a gore in Churchfield in Bedford Way Furlong (6 acres 3 roods) ---24 lands in Greenditch Furlong (11½ acres) --- 11 lands in Man Hill Furlong (4 acres 3 roods) --- 8 lands in Bowhill Furlong (2 acres) --- 9 lands and 2 gores in Stone Hill Furlong (5 acres) --- 45 lands and a gore and a headland in Putnoe Street furlong (22 acres 3 roods) --- 10 lands in Cricketts furlong (4 acres) --- 25 lands and a headland in Churchill Furlong (5 acres) --- Church Close (5 acres) --- In River Field ----- 4 lands in Lane End Furlong (1 acre) ----- 8 lands in Lower Dean Furlong (4 acres) -----12 lands in Dean Furlong (6 acres) ----- 8 lands in Newnham Leys Furlong (4 acres) ----- 34 lands in Narrow Highway Furlong (15 acres 1 rood) ----- 8 lands and a gore in Wanbacon Furlong (7 acres 3 roods) ----- 3 lands in Middle Furlong (1½ acres) ----- 5 lands in Cross Furlong (2 acres) ----- 27 lands in Key Furlong (12 acres 2 roods) ----- 23 lands and a headland in Milking Baulk Furlong (10 acres) as described in lease for a year of 11 October 1826 interest – 5% when premises re-conveyed ii) shall not be required to go from their respective places of abode, and will deliver up the deeds to i) undamaged covenant to produce lease and release of 10 and 11 April 1804 [SL1/288 and 289] signature i) endorsed receipt witnesses William Short, clerk to Messrs Pearse and Son, solicitors, Bedford, 11 and 12 October 1826 memo – interest and principal having been paid off, premises agreed to be re- conveyed 7 November 1828 after lease and release of 24 and 25 October 1828 [SL1/242 and 243] had been partly executed it appeared that mortgagors were not provided with sufficient money to pay off written mortgage and only paid interest then due. £2000 residue is still owing on sums of £5500 to John Short and Henry Couchman and is agreed they shall stand possessed of said mortgage and premises (except such parts as have been sold to Robert Elliott and Francis Green etc.) signatures Benjamin Jefferies, John Palmer
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