Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    WJ75
  • Title
    Attested copy of Release. £9,000
  • Date free text
    3 Oct 1809
  • Production date
    From: 1809 To: 1809
  • Scope and Content
    i) George Nigel Edwards, Lincoln’s Inn, and Henlow, late called Raynsford Thomas Alexander Raynsford, esquire, deputy registrar, Chancery ii) George Nigel Edwards as executor of his uncle George Edwards, late Henlow esquire, deceased iii) Simon Oliver Taylor, Marylebone, esquire and wife Elizabeth (late Raynsford) Frances Raynsford, Gravely, Hertfordshire, widow (late Frances Edwards, spinster) iv) James Paine, Gamlingay, farmer v) Thomas Hagger, Potton, ironmonger, brazier and auctioneer vi) George Nigel Edwards as administrator of Richard Raynsford, esquire, late deputy registrar, Chancery, his father, deceased who survived Edward Robinson, co-trustee of term of 500 years [Recites Marriage Settlement 2 September 1738 i) George Edwards senior, Henlow esquire (grandfather of George Edwards the uncle of George Nigel Edwards) George Edwards esquire only son and heir ii) Elizabeth Hanbury, parish of St George, Middlesex, spinster iii) Christopher Tower and Thomas Medlycott iv) Thomas Tower; John Washer v) George Proctor; James Scott vi) Samuel Skinner and Richard Raynsford vii) Abraham Crop; Irmingham Cheveley; John Coppinger; William Houghton Marriage of George Edwards junior and ii) £15,000 South Sea stock to iii) and iv) in trust to use of ii) for life, remainder to iii) for term of 500 years to raise portions for younger children, remainder to vi) in trust for term of 1000 years for portions for daughters, remainder to George Edwards junior The only children of the marriage were George Edwards the uncle of George Nigel Edwards, and Elizabeth wife of Simon Oliver Taylor, and Frances Raynsford Recites Conveyance. 23/24 April 1766 and final concord surviving trustees to Richard Edwards esquire property later specified to use of Elizabeth Edwards widow, for life, with remainder to George Edwards Recites Marriage Settlement 16/17 May 1766 Marriage of George Edwards , uncle of George Nigel Edwards with Sarah Peers. Life estate of Elizabeth Edwards and estate of George Edwards to use of Elizabeth Edwards for life, then in trust for Sarah Peers, remainders to children and to George Edwards. Sarah Edwards died November 1797 without issue. Elizabeth Edwards widow died May 1807, so George Edwards inherited the estate in fee simple. Recites: release of portions paid to Elizabeth Taylor and Frances Raynsford Recites: Mortgage: 28 October 1801. £4,600. i) George Edwards ii) James Smyth Recites: will of George Edwards; 6 May 1808 (died 9 February 1809) devising all estates in Henlow to nephew George Nigel Raynsford and Thomas Alexander Raynsford] i) at request of iii) to iv) and v) --- capital messuage Clifton, formerly in occupation Isaac Bedford junior, clerk home close, and part of yard formerly Dixies. Middle and Long closes --- close (4½ acres) Audleys --- Deans close (1½ acres) --- 2 pieces meadow – Hully Farrs --- How close, Meppershall, late in occupation Thomas Wyan --- 140 acres Clifton fields, late in occupation Thomas Wyan --- 2 acres Dun Meadow, Meppershall all late in occupation James Hanscomb and purchased by George Edwards junior from Thomas Medlycott et. al. --- pieces of arable and meadow in Clifton fields late purchase by same from John Fitton, late in occupation James Hanscomb --- messuage late a farm house, Clifton, adjoining parsonage, now in occupation John Pitts Cottage, Clifton, let to the churchwardens and overseers and used as a workhouse Cottage, Clifton, in occupation Richard Manning Home close adjoining late described as capital messuage or farmhouse and cottages formerly in occupation Thomas Harris, and three tofts – Achilles, Newells and Threddons --- Ashendon Close and Round Mead --- 120 acres arable belonging to the farmhouse, late in occupation James Hanscombe, all purchased from Thomas Smith et.al. to the use of iv). Covenant to levy a fine Assignment; vi) to iv) and v) of term of 500 years Covenant to produce title deeds (schedule)
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