Z575/512

Bill of Injunction, Whitbread v Willoughby, in which it is stated that John Willoughby, a farmer of Headley, Southampton, was officially chosen as the sole assignee of the estate and effects of Edward Baker, declared bankrupt on 14 May 1814. Description of the sale of crops [details given]. It is asked that John Willoughby and the purchasers should be restrained from removing or carrying away the crops, and should replace an equal quantity of grain or corn for any already removed; and that John Willoughby should be compelled to keep the covenants of the lease, Samuel Whitbread waiving any penalty or forfeiture already incurred by him. [See Z 575/147, a description of a proposed fraud involving John Willoughby and Z 575/625]

30 Aug 1814

From: 1814 To: 1814

Details of the sale of crops: John Willoughby put up for sale by public auction on 25 August 1814 all the growing crops of corn on Shefford Hardwick Farm (94 acres of wheat, 43 acres of barley, 34 acres of peas, 33 acres of beans and 12 acres of tares) and also the keep of the stubble, advertising that the crops were tithe-free and might be taken away; and that a notice was served on 8 August on Mr Williams, John Willoughby's solicitor, requiring him to conform to the covenants of Edward Baker's lease (allowed to continue when Samuel Whitbread bought the farm from Joseph Ashby Partridge in 1813) which did not permit the removal of crops from the farm. John Willoughby had gone ahead with the sale and John Hawkins, Samuel Whitbread's agent, had read the lease to those attending. After the sale, a notice was served on the other defendants, Joseph Ibbs, William Green, William Mawbey, William Bodger, James Parrott, Thomas Barber, Benjamin Briggs and William White, who had paid deposits on their purchases of crops, requiring them to 'lay and spend' the crops on the farm but, in spite of frequent reminders to John Willoughby and the purchasers about the terms of the lease, they refused to comply with them, insisting not only that John Willoughby, as assignee, was not bound to comply with them but that they also were not bound by them, 'but how they make out the same they refuse to discover'.

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Whitbread, Samuel,
Willoughby, John,
Baker, Edward,
Williams, Lawrence,
Partridge, Joseph Ashby,
Hawkins, John,
Ibbs, Joseph,
Green, William,
Mawbey, William,
Bodger, William,
Parrott, James,
Barber, Thomas,
Briggs, Benjamin,
White, William

legal papers, farmer, BANKRUPTCY, crops, agricultural leases, solicitor, Shefford Hardwick Farm, SHEFFORD HARDWICK, Hampshire