• Reference
    LS37
  • Title
    Conveyance to uses (lease & release in one copy): (i) William Fowler senior of St. Neots, maltster & common brewer, & eldest son William, & younger son George; (ii) John Mortlock of Cambridge esquire and Samuel Allvey of St Neots, doctor of physic, trustees.
  • Date free text
    19, 21 July 1800
  • Production date
    From: 1800 To: 1800
  • Scope and Content
    recites:- the Fowlers ''have for many years past...been engaged [as] brewers, maltsters, coal-dealers, timber merchants, brandy merchants, farmers & graziers [in] very large and extensive concerns comprising very valuable stocks''; latterly the sons have taken the principal share and acquired great gains for the copartnership: -- the freehold part of the messuages, brewhouses, maltings and offices in St. Neots, occupied by William senior, William junior and George Fowler & others, and in Eynesbury, Abbotsley, Great Gransden, Buckden, Spaldwick, Alconbury, Sawtry, Brampton, Huntingdon, Holywell, Kimbolton (Huntingdonshire); also in Eaton Socon, occupied by Henry Coy, James Sibley, Robert Pier & overseers; Wyboston & Little End, Eaton Socon, occupied by John Brewster, Samuel Wootton; Chawston (Roxton) occupied by John Neal; Biggleswade, occupied by Joshua Malden, John Croft, William Corbett, William Pope, Benjamin Olney, Benjamin Walker, Elizabeth Pitts, Thomas Simpson, William Sabey, William Squire; Potton occupied by Robert Fowler, Henry Verrell, Atkinson Wright, Rev. Mr. Whittingham, William Franklin; Bedford, occupied by Thomas Pope Palmer, Benjamin White, William Faldo (late Oliver Veal, now Thomas Bass), John Lilley; Riseley, occupied by Thomas Cole, Samuel Hart; Nether Dean, occupied by Samuel Tebbutt; Colmworth, occupied by Thomas Luff (Bedfordshire); Eltisley, Papworth, Gamlingay & Willingham, (Cambridgeshire); Newton Bromsgrave, (Northamptonshire); 1/3 each to William Fowler senior, William Fowler junior, and George Fowler; covenant to surrender copyholds in:- Ellington, Godmanchester, St. Ives, Easton, Swineshead (occupied by Thomas Atkins) (Huntingdonshire); Tillbrook (occupied by Mary Dawson) (Bedfordshire), and in all the other places listed above. The brewery trade now carried on by the Fowlers is intended to be continued by then in the same manner; mortgages which have been made to raise money to make some of the above purchases are to be a joint responsibility; witnesses Joseph Savill, Robert Mayes, John Park, all of St. Neots.
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