Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    X668/187-188
  • Title
    Lease and release and assignment: (i) Richard Circuit, Wooburn, yeoman (ii) Henry Hill, Wootton, yeoman, and wife Mary (one of the daughters of Mary Nixon, Marston Moretaine, widow, deceased) (iii) William Coleman, Cranfield, esquire (iv) Thomas Bonest, Marston Moretaine, dairyman (trustees). Reciting various deeds [Details given] Now, in consideration of £37 (part of the purchase money) paid to (i) by (iii) by the request of (ii), in full of all money owed to (i), and also of 5s paid to (i) by (iv), (i) at request of (ii) transfers to (iv) with consent of (iii) said 6 acres in Sexhill Field in Marston Moretaine called Whitebread Piece, to hold for residue of 3 terms of 1000 years in trust for (iii) (to whom freehold and inheritance is intended to be granted). Signatures of (i) and Henry Hill. Mark of Mary Hill. Endorsed receipt. Witnesses: Joshua Wheeler, Thomas Roe junior, Thomas Webb
  • Date free text
    26 Aug 1743
  • Production date
    From: 1743 To: 1743
  • Scope and Content
    Details of recited deeds: Reciting demise of 4 March 1729: (a) Mary Nixon (b) Frances Herbert, Milton Bryan, widow. Consideration £32 paid to (a) by (b), (a) demised to (b) moiety of 13 acres 1 rood arable and sweard, in Marston Moretaine and Wootton, late the lands of William Harding otherwise Hardwick. Term 1000 years. Rent 1 peppercorn yearly, to be void on repayment of £32 16s on a day long since past. Interest of (b) in said property has now become absolute in law for remainder of said term. By assignment of 23 December 1734: (I) Francis Cook, William Jones, John Herbert (executors of Frances Herbert) (II) Mary Phipps, Buckingham, spinster. (I) assigned to (II) premises for residue of term of 1000 years. By assignment of 10 July 1735: (A) Mary Phipps (B) Thomas Hammon, Swanton, Buckinghamshire, yeoman. (A) assigned to (B) said moiety of premises for residue of said term. By demise of 11 July 1735: (1) Henry Hill and wife Mary (2) Thomas Hammon. Consideration £18 paid by (2) to (1), (1) demised to (2) one full part (in 3 equal parts to be divided) of 13 acres 1 rood arable and sweard in Marston Moretaine and Wootton. Term 1000 years. To be void on payment of £18 9s on a day long since past. Covenant to levy fine. As said £18 9s was not paid, estate of (2) became absolute in law in said premises for remainder of term of 1000 years. By assignment of 29 October 1736: (1a) Thomas Hammon (1b) Henry Hill (1c) Elizabeth Nixon, Marston Moretaine, spinster (1d) Richard Circuit. By which (1a) assigned to (1d) said moiety of said third part of above mentioned property for residue of 2 terms of 1000 years and 1000 years. By demise of 22 May 1741: (IA) Thomas Roe elder, Eversholt, yeoman (a person named in trust for Henry Hill), Henry Hill (IB) Richard Circuit. Consideration 5s to Thomas Roe and £34 to Henry Hill paid by (IB), (IA) demised to (IB) 6 acres arable in Sex Hill, Marston Moretaine, called Whitbread Piece: South Mr Dell North Ambrose Sanderfoot East Long Baulk West common highway then in the occupation of William Wheeler. Term 1000 years, to be void on payment of £34 and interest on a day now past. As said £34 not paid, estate of (IB) became absolute in law in said property for remainder of term of 1000 years. There is now due to (i) £37. (iii) has agreed to purchase premises from (ii) for £48 out of which £37 due to (i) shall be paid.
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