Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    WE95-96
  • Title
    Deed of Separation (Lease and Release): i) John Armstrong of Houghton Conquest, yeoman; ii) Susannah Armstrong (wife of said John Armstrong; iii) Reverend Charles Ingle of Houghton Conquest, Samuel May of Ampthill, draper and grocer; Thomas Gudgin of Houghton Conquest, farmer; and Joseph Bennell of Haslewood Lane in Houghton Conquest, yeoman; and iv) William Baker of same place, yeoman.
  • Date free text
    12, 13 Mar 1819
  • Production date
    From: 1819 To: 1819
  • Scope and Content
    ...Several closes in Houghton Conquest, called Great Bury Leys, Little Bury Leys and Pightle containing together 44 acres 3 roods 31 perches [no details]. [Recites Deed, dated 14 July 1814: i) William Peacock of Bromham, yeoman; ii) the said John Armstrong; and iii) John Morris and Joseph Morris, both of Ampthill, esquires; itself reciting a) Lease and Release, dated 21 and 22 January 1788: i) John Armstrong; ii) Edward Emery of Blunham, gentleman; iii) Edmund Estcourt of Lincoln’s Inn Fields, esquire and iv) William Watkins of Bedford, coal merchant. ...The said closes; b) Assignment, dated 24 March 1798: i) Edward Emery of Willington, yeoman (executor of said Edward Emery, gentleman); ii) John Armstrong; and iii) John Staines of Biddenham, gentleman; which recites Will of Edward Emery, gentleman, appointing said Edward Emery and Samuel Wells of Biggleswade as executors; c) Assignment, dated 12 October 1802: i) John Staines; ii) John Armstrong; and iii) William Hanger; and d) Will of said William Hanger, dated 11 October 1799, and proved 28 August 1813, appointing his wife Mary and the said William Peacock, as joint executors]. Various conditions of separation Witnesses: E Eagles, John Eagles (his clerk), and John and Fanny Upton
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