• Reference
    HW9
  • Title
    i) John Ireland, Woburn, malster ii) Walter Scott, Aspley Guise, esquire iii) John Gay, Ampthill, esquire (trustee of ii)
  • Date free text
    29 Sep 1750; endorsed 24 Jan 1758
  • Production date
    From: 1750 To: 1758
  • Scope and Content
    reciting mortgage for 500 years of 6 October 1738 for £20 by i) John Samm senior, Aspley Guise, tailor and wife Ann to ii) John Farey, Woburn, carpenter ... of a cottage in Aspley Guise with orchard and pightle where Mary Samm, spinster deceased, once lived, and two tenements in Aspley Guise where Ellerd Jebell and Robert Walker lived which had been devised to John Samm under will of Mary Samm; ... messuage in Aspley Guise where John Tilcock yeoman deceased once lived, afterwards turned into 3 tenements, inhabited by Richard Cleaver, Margaret Chepsey widow and Henry Burton, which came to Ann wife of John Samm senior under the will of John Tilcock; and that the capital and interest were not repaid, so that the estate of John Farey became absolute, and reciting a further mortgage being a demise for 1000 years for £35 by i) John Samm senior and wife Ann, John Samm junior of Aspley Guise, victualler and wife Ann to ii) John Ireland, Woburn, malster which sum has not been paid so that the estate has been made absolute, and reciting deed 1 May 1741 between i) John Samm senior and wife Ann ii) John Samm junior and wife Ann iii) John Farey iv) Richard Ward, Leighton Buzzard, gentleman being Assignment by i), ii), and iii) to iv), in consideration of £22 paid to iii) by iv), of the premises for the remainder of the terms of 500 and 1000 years, and reciting that the terms of 500, 1000 and 1000 years are now all vested in John Ireland, securing £115..6..8d ASSIGNMENT by i) to ii) of his mortgage interest for £80 Witnesses: John Preston, Aspley Guise, clerk; Matthew Gelieu, Woburn, attorney 29 Sep 1750 [Attested Copy made 26 October 1757 by R Ward and G T Heysham] Endorsed with a note reciting that Ann Samm widow of John Samm junior and her three children, Thomas and Elizabeth Samm and Mary Scottney had sealed deeds for making a tenant to precipe for suffering a common recovery for the tenement late Tilcocks, Agreement by Walter Scott to produce deeds etc 24 Jan 1758
  • Level of description
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