Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    BS21723
  • Title
    Release ( to create new trustees to will of Thomas Day)
  • Date free text
    24 Jan 1754
  • Production date
    From: 1754 To: 1754
  • Scope and Content
    (i) Joseph Letch, Middle Temple gentleman Thomas Philips, Customs House, London, gentleman surviving trustees and executors of Thomas Day, Great Warley, Essex Esquire deceased. (ii) Robert Cottam, Middle Temple gentleman (iii) Thomas Madgwick Middle Temple gentleman (iv) Pinson Bonham, St. Brides, London, gentleman Samuel Bonham, London, gentleman (v) Jane wife of Thomas Philips late wife of Thomas Day Thomas Day, infant, only child of Jane and Thomas Day (vi) Mary Peacock, Pertenhall. [reciting: Will of Thomas Day. 11 June 1749. -- £3000 secured by mortgage on house in Berkeley Square to Joseph Letch and Thomas Philips in trust, interest on £2000 to wife for life -- all copyholds, Manor of Great Warley to wife for life residue of real and personal estate to trustees to following uses:- -- Maintenance of son Thomas until 21, then to convey residue of estate to him and heirs. remainders -- all estate in Pertenhall and Keysoe to Daniel Welstead, Kimbolton, and heirs -- copyhold, Manor of Great Warley, to Thomas Adams for life then to Joseph Letch. -- shares in the Eddystone and Portland lighthouses to John Whormby (since deceased) -- farm at Foulness, Essex, after decease of wife to Philip Parsell for life, then to Joseph Letch -- 2 closes at Swineshead to Philip Parsell for life then to Daniel Welstead. -- half residue to wife, other half to Philip Parsell, Mrs. Elizabethy Noyes widow, and Ann, daughter of John Whormby in equal shares. -- to Mary Peacock use of the house she then lived in and 4 acres for life will proved 16 March 1749/50. reciting: Lease and Release (Marriage Settlement) 22/23 April 1746 lands and tenements on Island of Foulness to wife as jointure, remainders to children of Thomas Day and wife Jane. reciting: Pinson Bonham and Samuel Bonham have agreed to become trustees in the place of those deceased. Joseph Letch and Thomas Philips to Robert Cottam to uses expressed in the will:- -- messuage, garden outbuildings and 1 acre in front, surrounded by ditch, called the Little Piece; Gravel Pit Marsh (13 acres 2 roods 20 perches) Cony Burrow Marsh (7 acres 28 perches) and Round Pit Hill Marsh (2 acres 21 perches) all abutting west on Middle Marsh, (Little Borwood) Antony Lodwick south -- part of Round Pit Marsh (3 acres 13 perches) marsh of Antony and Elizabeth Lodwick, his sister, south -- Lower Fleet Marsh (4 acres 1 rood 19 perches), Rubbing Post Marsh (15 acres 1 rood 35 perches) lying together Little Borwood south; Upper Fleet Marsh(7 acres 3 roods 38 perches) little Borwood south, Fleet Marsh north. -- Round Marsh (12 acres 7 perches) Rubbing Post Marsh south -- Little Marsh (2 acres 3 roods 25 perches), New Marsh north, late in the occupation of Edward Bawker -- Pound Marsh (11 acres), Home Marsh (11 acres 39 perches) abutting on the messuage. -- 200 acres arable and pasture (Fresh Marsh and Salt Marsh), -- fishing rights etc. all late in the occupation of Peter Moorbeck deceased then Elizabeth Kennedy and Margaret Moorbeck in Isle of Foulness parish of Foulness, Shopland and Sutton. -- messuage in the occupation of Mary Peacock, Pertenhall Wood End, Spicknell’s Close north, Kimbolton road south -- 4 acres 3 roods arable, Pertenhall fields, late in the occupation of John Richards -- capital messuage and farm, Pertenhall, 2 pastures (7 acres) adjoining homestead, south Gunnersbury close (16 acres), 70 acres arable and pasture (specified in deed 14 February 1678/9) - (i) Sir Thomas Gold, alderman of City of London, and wife Ann, John Bridges, late skinner, London, and wife Ursula, Daniel Chandler, draper, London and wife Ann. Judith Darrett, daughter of Ann (Gold) and Thomas Darrett deceased (ii) John Buckworth, late London, merchant. (iii) Richard Gisby late Kimbolton, gentleman -- lands and tenements in Pertenhall in terrier attached to feoffment 29 March 1682 (i) Richard Spicer, London, gentleman (ii) Richard Gisbey -- messuage and yard, Stoneby, Kimbolton, late in the occupation of widow Beatles -- barn and yard, Stoneby, in the occupation of late Widow Ibbs. -- 2 closes late part of the Frith (16 acres) Swineshead and piece between the closes and Hall Closes. -- messuage and garden Higham Ferrers late in the occupation of Ann Quinton spinster -- part of Well close near Ratcliffe highway.Middlesex, north side of Marine Square, late Daniel Hale, east, west and north and messuage (3rd west from Anchor Alley) late in the occupation of Robert Ashby, conveyed by Ashby to testator 14/15 July 1737 by way of mortgage to secure £150. -- messuage and parcels of meadow, marsh and fenn (48 acres), Dollway Piece, Upwell, Isle of Ely -- 24 acres Upwell, abutting on former conveyed by Bennet Offley et al. to Joseph Letch and Thomas Philips 16/17 April 1753 by way of mortgage to secure £1800 -- manors, Cotterstock, Northamptonshire and advowson of rectory, Cotterstock House, late in the occupation of Elizabeth Steward, then John Simcoe. -- Dyall Close, Applemead Close, 13 acres Cotterstock meadow late in the occupation of Elizabeth Steward -- Wilkin’s Close (14 acres), Stainborough Leys (13 acres), Neither (sic) Crofts and Fallow close late in the occupation of John Hicks -- mill houses, stables, ozier beds, closes and holmes (14 acres) late in the occupation of John Freeman -- farm (113 acres) arable, 7 acres meadow, 46 acres leys, 3½ acres close late in the occupation of Sheppard Goodfellow -- 2 closes (14 acres) late in the occupation of John Cash -- 8 acres close late in the occupation of [ ] Bates -- 7 acres close late in the occupation of Matthew Southwell -- house and leys (2 acres) late in the occupation of [ ] Campion -- cottage and yard late in the occupation of Richard Burton -- cottage and leys late in the occupation of William Wiggins -- cottage and leys late in the occupation of Francis Gregory -- Hall Woods (80 acres) late in the occupation of Elizabeth Steward, now John Pate Rose esquire -- cottage and leys late in the occupation of Elizabeth Lack -- tithes late owned Elmes Steward deceased Cotterstock, then John Rose, London, esquire, deceased now John Pate Rose all in parsonage of Cotterstock and Clapthorn, Northamptonshire -- house and farm (87 acres, parish of Tansor, Northamptonshire late in the occupation of John Cash and George Palmer, then Thomas Cox, now Thomas Fuett. -- House, malting, dovecote and lands late in the occupation of Edward Henson (67 acres) Oundle, Northamptonshire garden late in the occupation of Thomas Cross, (3 acres) Oundle -- quitrents (2/6d per annum) Oundle -- messuages Oundle, late in the occupation of Daniel Read [ reciting: Assignments of remainder of terms of years: 30 March 1719, 2 May 1739, to testator, of shares in Portland and Eddysone lighthouses. reciting: Demise by way of mortgage to secure £3000, 26 January 1744/5 Duke of Manchester to testator of messuage Berkeley Square. reciting: Demise by way of mortgage 15 April 1742. £300 Thomas Hartwell to testator messuage in St. Brides] Assignment: Joseph Letch and Thomas Philips to Thomas Madgwick in trust to reassign to Joseph Letch and Thomas Philips and Pinson Bonham and Samuel Bonham -- as recited above [reciting: surrender by way of mortgage £1000 28 June 1735 Bennett Offley, Reedingworth, Huntingdonshire, gentleman to testator and further charge on mortgage, £1800 17 April 1753 -- same lands and those at Dollway] Trustees to use proceeds to perform trusts under will. Endorsed 25 January 1754 Thomas Madgwick assigns to Joseph Letch and Thomas Philips and Pinson Bonham and Samuel Bonham all premises conveyed by Joseph Letch and Thomas Philips to Thomas Madgwick for remainders of terms in trust subject to uses expressed in the will. Endorsed: Warrant of Attorney 26 January 1754 Witnesses: Henry Savage, Samuel Hough
  • Archival history
    Collection made by the late A.W. Turner, and sent by Messrs. Perrys, 56 Preston Street, Brighton, via British Records Association.
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