Reference
Z590/19
Title
Manor of Biggleswade
Copy Absolute Surrender Out of Court.
Date free text
5 Oct 1855
Production date
From: 1855 To: 1855
Scope and Content
Memorandum that William Samuel of Bedford , grocer, and his wife Mary (née Rhodes), who stands admitted for the term of her natural life to the cottage or tenement below and its hereditaments copyhold of the manor, and George Garner of Bedford, blacksmith, who is entitled to the fee simple in remainder and reversion of the said premises expectant on the death of Mary Saunders according to the custom of the said manor, in consideration of £16 paid to them (William Samuel, Mary Samuel, and George Garner) by Nathaniel Garner of Biggleswade, gardener, for the absolute purchase of an estate of inheritance in fee simple in possession according to the custom of the manor of and in the cottage or tenement, have out of court surrendered (Mary Samuel being first solely and separately examined apart from her husband by William Thomas Chapman, gent., deputy steward for this purpose specially appointed by George Stone, esq., chief steward, and freely and voluntarily consenting thereto) by the hands and acceptance of the said deputy steward and according to the custom thereof:
a) cottage or tenement and land whereon the same stands in Biggleswade near the Anchor Inn bounded on the N. by land of [ ] Field, esq., on the E. by the cottage of Ann Francis, widow, and on the S. and W. by a yard together with joint use of the said yard, well and privy; formerly in the occupation of Edward Rawlins and now or late of Joseph Francis; and to which Mary Samuel was admitted by Z 590/11.
...to the use and behoof of Nathaniel Garner, his heirs and assigns for ever at the will of the lord according to the custom of the manor.
Receipt by the surrenderors witnessed by William Thomas Chapman.
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