Reference
R6/5/18/1
Title
Contract for Sale
Date free text
4 February 1813
Production date
From: 1813 To: 1813
Scope and Content
Contract for Sale
Parties:
(i) Commissioners of His Majesty’s Woods, Forests and Land Revenues
(ii) John, 6th Duke of Bedford
Operative Part:
- contract for sale by (i) to (ii) of (a) for £390
Property [shown on included plan]:
(a) ground of 1 rood, 1 perch in Bedford, Saint Cuthbert on the W side of Town Street and the N side of Mill lane on which lay a house fronting Town Street with washhouse, shed and carpenter’s shop and three old decayed cottages fronting Mill Lane – part of the Manor of Newingham Abbots demised by George III in 11 February 1773 to Gertrude, Duchess of Bedford , Caroline, Duchess of Marlborough and Robert Palmer, esquire as trustees of the will of John, 4th Duke of Bedford of 16 April 1767 for the life of John, 6th Duke of Bedford at a yearly rent of £50 per annum
[The map shows the house, with washhouse and sheds behind as being the former 2 Saint Cuthbert’s Street, still extant in 1970 but demolished by 2012. It is bounded N by the Wrestlers Public House, now the site of a doctor’s surgery. 38 to 42 Mill Street adjoin a building marked “Baptist Society” immediately W].
Level of description
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