Scope and Content
Sale particulars of fifteen lots, with annotations:
- auctioneer Mr. Prickett of Highgate [Middlesex];
- place of auction: Swan Inn, Bedford;
- solicitor Mr. Kidman of Bedford;
- Lot 1: a mansion house in the High Street, Bedford, comprising two bedrooms and two dark rooms in the attic; six chambers with dressing room and closets on the first floor; a hall, dining room, parlour, breakfast room, music room, kitchen, scullery and coal cellar on the ground floor; beer and wine cellars in the basement; a forecourt inclosed by a brick wall with a pump of water; a yard and drying ground; a pleasure or kitchen garden; a two stall stable with a loft over; a large washhouse, a shed and a woodhouse; a paddock and plot of ground formerly used as a coke yard with a summerhouse; in the occupation of Mr. Whitehouse and Mr. Barnard with an unexpired term of three years from Lady Day 1800 at £58/1/- per annum rent [annotated Cooke £465 – roughly the site of today’s 87-93 High Street];
- Lot 2: a building used as a meeting house, a warehouse, a woodhouse, a poultry house, a pigsty and a piece of land adjoining the south side of Lot 1 containing at W next to High Street 24 feet N-S and at the E end 24 feet N-S; in the occupation of Ranger, Rowlson and Whitehouse under the same lease as Lot 1 [annotated Stevens £100 – roughly the site of today’s 85 High Street];
- Lot 3.: a dwelling house adjoining Lot 1 containing a garret, three chambers, a parlour, a hall, a washhouse, a front shop, a yard and a garden, in the occupation of Charles Drew, mason held under the same lease as Lot 1 [annotated Miller £220 – roughly on the site of today’s 95-107 High Street];
- Lot 4: a dwelling house adjoining Lot 3 containing three chambers, a parlour, a kitchen, a shop, a washhouse and cellar with offices, yard and garden and a granary on S side of the yard, in the occupation of Mr. Button, butcher and Mr. Eden, farmer held under the same lease as Lot 1 [annotated Button £155 – roughly on the site of today’s 109-111 High Street];
- Lot 5: a range of granaries, a small yard, a storehouse and guard room with a plot of land on the N side of Lot 1 and fronting Lucks Lane extending E-W along the land 172 feet and in width N-S 40 feet; in the occupation of Malden Wagstaffe, Whitehouse and others held under the same lease as Lot 1 [annotated Cooke £105 – roughly the site of offices behind 109-111 High Street];
- Lot 6: a piece of garden ground adjoining Lots 1 and 5 extending E-W along Lucks Lane 202 feet and in depth N-S 149 feet containing two roods, thirty poles in the occupation of Mr. Mowbray and held under the same lease as Lot 1 [annotated Cooke £105 – roughly the site of part of today’s multi-storey car park];
- Lot 7: a piece of garden ground adjoining Lot 6, extending E-W along Lucks Lane 202 feet and in depth N-S 149 feet containing two roods, thirty poles in the occupation of Mr. Mowbray held under the same lease as Lot 1 [annotated Long £100 – roughly on the site of part of today’s multi-storey car park];
- Lot 8: a piece of garden ground adjoining Lots 6 and 7, extending E-W along Mill Lane 237 feet with a summerhouse standing on it and containing one acre, one rood, thirty poles in the occupation of Mr. Mowbray and held under the same lease as Lot 1 [annotated Watkins £205 – the frontage to Mill Street is roughly on the site of today’s 30-34 Mill Street;
- Lot 9: a close of sward land adjoining Lot 8 and Mill lane with a stable and two pieces of garden on S side and containing one acre, one rood, ten poles in the occupation of Barnard, Davis and Leech, held under the same lease as Lot 1 [annotated Watkins £255 – the frontage roughly on the site of today’s 22-28 Mill Street];
- Lot 10: a close of arable on the north side of the road from Bedford to Goldington containing five acres, two roods, twenty nine poles in the occupation of Robert Bunting, butcher at £9 per annum rent [annotated John Smith £300 – roughly the site of today’s 18 saint Cuthbert’s Street];
- Lot 11: a close of sward at Newnham with cowhouse for eight cows and calf pens and containing six acres in the occupation of Robert Bunting, butcher with Lot 12 at £27 per annum rent [annotated Addington £465];
- Lot 12: a close of sward land adjoining Lot 11 with a two bay barn and four bay hovel and containing six acres, let with Lot 11 [annotated J. Smith £510];
- Lot 13: a plot of meadow in Goldington Meadow of seven and a half acres in the occupation of Mr. Barnard and held under the same lease as Lot 1 [annotated Addington £320];
- Lot 14: two plots of meadow in Goldington Meadow containing two acres in the occupation of Mr. Barnard under the same lease as Lot 1 [annotated Addington £74];
- Lot 15: a messuage in Potter Street, Bedford, containing three chambers, a parlour, a kitchen, a hall and pantry, a washhouse and cellar, a two stall stable with a loft over, a chaise lodge, a yard and garden in the occupation of Thomas Cockman; a cottage adjoining with two bed rooms, a kitchen a washhouse and cellar in the occupation of Henry Thurrell; a paddock behind in the occupation of John Wing – all held by John Wing as tenant at will at £2/10/- per annum [annotated Pearse £225]