• Reference
    WJ430
  • Title
    Deed to declare the uses of a fine
  • Date free text
    24 Dec 1743
  • Production date
    From: 1743 To: 1743
  • Scope and Content
    i) Thomas Bacon and wife Mary ii) John Whitehurst, Hitchin, haberdasher iii) Benjamin Marshall, Baldock, draper [recites fine Michaelmas term 1743 plaintiff: Benjamin Marshall defendant: Thomas Bacon and wife] --- messuage, Hanscombe End, Shillington --- close of pasture and meadow (5 acres) adjoining messuage divided by brook, and abutting E and W on highway, Beddyman Street N, in occupation i) to use: of ii) for 500 years (mortgage £160 @ 4½%, 21 October 1735) [recites assignment of mortgage: 24 October 1743 i) John Willis, Bedford, maltster, and wife Ann, administrix of John Lawrence, late Hitchin, innholder, her late brother deceased, sole executor of will of Mary Lawrence, his mother ii) Thomas Bacon iii) John Whitehurst] Witnesses: Edward Oates, Walter Williams
  • Level of description
    item