Scope and Content
Release [lease missing]
Parties:
(i) James Warr of Caddington, farmer;
(ii) Thomas Higgins of Wootton [Northamptonshire], farmer;
(iii) George Mellor of Woburn, draper;
(iv) Charles Gale of Little Brickhill [Buckinghamshire], farmer
Reciting:
- MN36/23;
- MN36/26;
- £2,145/4/7 was still outstanding but all interest had been paid;
- John Cole died in June 1841;
Operative Part:
- (iii) paid £3,600 as follows - £2,145/4/7 to (ii) and £1,454/15/5 to (i)
- (i) appointed (a)-(o) to (iii);
- (ii), at the request of (i), released (a)-(o) to (iii)
Property:
(a) orchard adjoining the farm homestead (which had been retained by James Warr) of 1 acre, 2 roods, 12 perches;
[(b) Cow Pasture Close of 3 acres, 2 roods, 9 perches];
[(c) The Home Close of 4 acres, 2 roods, 21 perches];
(a), (b) and part of (c) lately converted into one field called The Orchard and Meadow Close and the remaining part of (d) now called Home Close and all bounded: part E by ancient inclosure of William Beckford, part E and part S by (a); part S and part W by the road from Chaul End to Dunstable; N by (d)-(e);
[(d) part of Hillside Close of 3 roods, 8 perches for some time past laid into (f)];
[(e) Hillside Close, formerly of William Beckford containing 8 acres, 1 rood, 12 perches bounded: SE and NE by allotment to Joseph Howell; SE by (e); part S by allotment to William Beckford; part S by inclosure of William Hanbury Potter Jones; part W by road from Chaul End to Dunstable; E and N by (g)];
(d), (e) and part of (f) containing 1 rood, 16 perches were some time since made into one close of 9 acres, 1 rood, 26 perches but now divided into two closes called Hillside Close and Three Acres Close;
(f) farmhouse lately built by James Warr on 1 rood, 16 perches on part of ex, (f) and (h);
(g) Cutts Close formerly of Joseph Howell of 8 acres, 14 perches bounded: E and part N by (h); part S by allotment to Joseph Howell; W, part S and part N by (k);
(h) Five Acres Close of 4 acres, 2 roods, 25 perches bounded: part E by (i); part E ancient inclosure of Joseph Howell; S by allotment to Joseph Howell; W by (g); N by (k); it now, together with a small part of Cutts Close of 1 acre, 31 perches formed a close of 5 acres, 26 perches;
[(i) part of Hatchet Close containing 1 rood, 15 perches for some time added to (j)];
[(j) Three Acres Close or Hatchet Close formerly of Rev. Nathaniel Hume and Joseph Howell as lessees of 2 acres, 3 roods, 23 perches bounded: E and S by allotments to Joseph Howell; part W by (i); part W and part N by (l); part N by ancient inclosure of George Simons];
- (i) and (j) now formed one close of 31 acres, 31 perches;
(k) 41 acres, 2 roods, 33 perches in Bottom Field bounded: part E by ancient inclosure of George Simons; part E and part S by (i); part S by (h); part S by (g); part E by allotment to Joseph Howell; part S and part E by (e); part S by the road from Chaul End to Dunstable; part W by allotment to William Beckford; part N and part E by ancient inclosures and an allotment to Richard Partridge; part N and part W by (l); part N by road from Luton to Dunstable;
[(l) plot of land part of Fogtail Close, property of Richard Partridge and containing 1 acre, 1 rood, 31 perches bounded: E and S by (k); W by the other part of the ancient inclosure of Richard Partridge; N by the road from Luton to Dunstable]; 1 rood 16 perches of (k) to (l) had been for some time laid in with Hillside Close and the remainder divided into 3 closes called Bottom Field of 10 acres, 1 rood, 31 perches, Fogtail Ground of 10 cares, 3 roods, 32 perches and Great Ground of 21 acres, 1 rood, 25 perches – the last being subsequently divided into three closes called Eight Acres, Ten Acres and Four Acres and part of which, along with part of (h) were laid to from part of Hatchet Close];
[(m) Pittings Down Close formerly of William Beckford of 4 acres, 3 roods, 16 perches bounded: E by the road from Chaul End to Dunstable; S by ancient inclosure of William Beckford; W by (o)];
[(n) land lying on The Downs of 7 acres, 3 roods, 23 perches bounded: S by (o); W by allotment to William Beckford; N by the road from Chaul End to Dunstable];
- (m) and (n) had for some time been laid together with part of (o) containing 1 acre, 19 perches to form a close of 13 acres, 3 roods, 18 perches;
(o) Seven Acres Close formerly of 9 acres, 3 rood, 4 perches but now 8 acres, 2 roods, 25 perches;
Habendum:
- to (iii) to uses; to the use of (iii) for his life; to the use of (iv) during the life of (iii), in trust for (iii); to the use of (iii) for ever
Witnesses:
- John Green of Woburn, solicitor;
- William Harland, clerk to John Green