BS1856

Assignment of Mortgages, £500 at 4 1/2%, £38 at 5%, remainder of terms of 1000 and 500 years: (i) William Bedford, clerk, Bedford, and wife Sarah (formerly wife of Peter Hazlewood, Bedford, draper, deceased, sole executrix of his will) (ii) John Willis senior, Bedford, yeoman (son and heir of William Willis, deceased) (iii) Sarah Hazlewood, Bedford, spinster (only daughter of Peter Hazlewood). Messuage with malt house, kiln and kiln house, and new built dovehouse and barn, in St John Street, Bedford; 1/2 acre pasture adjoining; 38 acres arable and sward in common fields of St Marys parish, Bedford, as in BS 1833. Cites BS 1833 and 1851 - 1855. Elizabeth White being dead, £538 is due to William Bedford. The money paid to John White [see BS 1853] by William Bedford was part of the personal estate of Peter Hazlewood, devised to Sarah, wife of William Bedford, and is part of a legacy to daughter Sarah Hazlewood under her father's will. William Bedford now wishes to assign the sums of £400, £100 and £38 due to daughter Sarah Hazlewood as part satisfaction of the legacy. William Bedford to Sarah Hazlewood with consent of John Willis. Witnesses: Elizabeth Taylor, Henry Horton

26 Feb 1754/55, citing from 1731

From: 1731 To: 1755

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Bedford, William,
Bedford, Sarah,
Hazlewood, Peter,
Hazlewood, Sarah,
Willis, John,
Willis, William,
White, Elizabeth,
White, John,
Taylor, Elizabeth,
Horton, Henry

mortgages, clerk, draper, yeoman, malthouse, Bedford fields, BEDFORD, Bedford St John's Street, St. Mary Bedford