Reference
Z590/5
Title
Copy Absolute Surrender (out of Court)
Memorandum that Thomas Gale (as in Z 590/3), customary tenant of the manor, in consideration of £80 paid by William Brunt the elder of Biggleswade, draper, for the absolute purchase of the estate described below, did out of Court Surrender to the Lord of the Manor, by the hands of Henricus Octavus Roe, gent., deputy steward of Isaac Hindley, chief steward:
Date free text
9 June 1819
Production date
From: 1819 To: 1819
Scope and Content
a) 2 messuages, tenements, or dwelling houses with the yard, garden and appurtenances belonging thereto in Biggleswade and now in the several occupations of Thomas Gale and William Hopit and were sometime since erected on part of a piece of arable land called the Cow Fair Land (see Z 590/1(a) and Z 590/3(a) ) purchased by Thomas Gale of Edward Rudd, gent., bounded on the E. by the tenement and premises of Philip Whitfield, on the S. by a footpath 5’ wide leading into a road now or formerly called Crabb Lane now the turnpike road, on the W. by the premises belonging to James Hart (see Z 590/3 (a)) and on the N. by garden ground of the Public House called the Anchor; which said yard and garden and the ground whereon the messuages stand are part of the ground purchased of Edward Rudd and to which Thomas Gale was admitted tenant on the Surrender of Edward Rudd on 11/12 April 1780 (see Z 590/1).
Habendum: to William Brunt his heirs and assigns for ever according to the custom of the manor.
Witnessed as true copy of ‘Original Surrender written on a one Pound ten shillings sheet of stamped paper’ by H O Roe.
With (annexed) receipt for the purchase money witnessed by Joshua Maldin.
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