BC575

Copy of lease for a year (release missing)

15 Nov 1742; 11 Jan 1768

From: 1742 To: 1768

i) Benjamin Hensman, Bedford, weaver; Ann Hensman, Bedford, spinster; Mercy Hensman, Bedford, spinster ii) Thomas Woodward, Bedford, gentleman; Charles Bithrey, Bedford, gentleman i) Leases to ii) - Messuage and tenements in White Horse Street, or Lane, or Duck Lane that is to say -- 2 tenements now in the occupation of Thomas Wootton and said Ann and Mercy Hensman, which adjoin each other and stand at bottom of yard belonging to said messuage; South, garden of John Phillips; West, garden of Thomas Woodward; North, garden late of Mr Thomas Hawes, deceased; East, yard; -- 3 other tenements adjoining together fronting on part of said street and being said principal messuage and now in the occupations of John Rush, Richard Hewitt and Thomas Hockett -- Barn belonging now in the occupation of John Rush; Marks of i) Witnesses: Griffith Morgan, John Rush 15 Nov 1742 Examined with the original 11 Jan 1768

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Bedford Corporation,
Hensman, Benjamin,
Hensman, Ann,
Hensman, Mercy,
Woodward, Thomas,
Bithrey, Charles,
Wootton, Thomas,
Phillips, John,
Hawes, Thomas,
Rush, John,
Hewitt, Richard,
Hockett, Thomas

Bedford Corporation, buildings and land use, BEDFORD, HOUSING, cottages, Bedford White Horse Street, Bedford White Horse Lane, Bedford Duck Lane, weaver, agricultural buildings