Reference
R6/14/3/26
Title
Mortgage by demise for 1000 years of 2 cottages in Cople
Date free text
6 April 1748
Production date
From: 1742 To: 1749
Scope and Content
Parties:
(i) John Nichols of Maulden, husbandman, and Anne Nichols of Great Woolstone (Bucks), spinster;
(ii) Judith Smith of Eversholt, widow
Operative part:
- (i) borrows £50 from (ii) at interest of £1.5s (2½%), secured on (a) and (b)
Property:
(a) Cottage or tenement in Cople formerly occupied by Thomas Copperwheat, weaver, deceased, now in the tenure of John Woolley, cooper, with 2 closes of pasture ground containing 3 acres abutting: N ground formerly of Matthew Watts and now of […] Cressey of Shefford, tanner; S tenement formerly of John Mennard; E Cople Street; W furlong abutting into Cardington highway – with commons for two beasts in the common fields of Cople;
(b) Cottage or tenement with one rood of ground abutting: W the street side in Cople; N tenements formerly of William Arden and Matthew Watts – with one cow common in the common fields of Cople. Formerly in the tenure of Thomas Battison
Witnesses:
- Thomas Burtt
- Judith Carvel
- Matthew Dutton
Endorsement:
- mortgage assigned by John Burt of the City of London, citizen and farrier, and Thomas Burt of Ridgmont, victualler, sons of Thomas Burt, brother of Judith Smith, appointed executors under her will dated 19 April 1742
- assigned to Rebecca Reddal of Ridgmont, widow and John Gurney of Husborne Crawley, miller, for payment of £50
- witnesses: Charles Copperwheat, Matthew Dutton
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