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i) Mary Gregory of Eversholt (widow, sole residuary devisee and administrix of John Gregory, gentleman, who was one of the executors and devisees in trust of Nathan Medcraft of Westoning, gentleman);
ii) Ezra Eagles of Ampthill, gentleman, and wife Sarah (late Medcraft);
iii) Anne Abbot Humberstone of Stone Hall, Plymouth Dock (county Devon), spinster, Anna Maria Catherine Wilton of New Norfolk Street, Grosvenor Square (county Middlesex), widow, Francis Eleanor Humberstone of Ampthill, spinster, and Francis Humberstone of Doddington (county Northamptonshire), gentleman, (the 4 surviving children of Lawrence Humberstone);
iv) Thomas Abbot Green of London, goldsmith;
v) Bartholomew Churchill Carter of Staple Inn, London, gentleman,
vi) Edward Augustine Worley of Stony Stratford (county Buckinghamshire), gentleman,
vii) the said Ezra Eagles; and viii) Moses Wilson of Harlington, grazier.
RECITES:
A) WE513.
B) Lease and Release, dated 13, 14 July 1786; for £210:
i) Frances Cardale, spinster;
ii) said Lawrence Humberstone and wife; and
iii) said John Green and Jeremy Fish Palmer. ... A messuage and garden in Cowfair End in Ampthill, late in occupation of George Webb, then Zachary Grey, then Susannah Gray (his widow), and then Joseph Cardale, with a piece of ground formerly in occupation of George Webb on N., a cottage then late in occupation of Thomas Harvey on S., a close formerly in occupation of Mary Dymoke, widow, on E., and the highway or street on W.
C) WE514-515
D) Lease and release, dated 1, 2 February 1798; for £750:
i) Jeremy Fish Palmer;
ii) Ann Abbot Humberstone;
iii) Hannah Dennis (widow of Edward Dennis;
iv) Mary Gregory; and
v) said Sarah Medcraft (later Eagles, the only surviving child of Nathan Medcraft, and heiress of her brother John Medcraft).
E) Lease and Release, of even date with D):
i) Francis Green (trustee for Thomas Abbot Green);
ii) said Thomas Abbot Green;
iii) Mary Gregory;
iv) Sarah Medcraft;
v) Jeremy Fish Palmer;
vi) John Robinson (who owned an outstanding term of years in the hereditaments); and
vii) Ezra Eagles (trustee to whom the term was assigned).
[Itself reciting
a) Release, dated 12 January 1780: Thomas Orlebar Marsh and wife Sarah, to Francis Foster of Leighton Buzzard, gentleman. ... several pieces of land [no details].
b) Assignment, dated 6 September 1785: Elizabeth Foster (executrix of Francis Foster) to Thomas Shilleter of Cople, labourer, by appointment of Thomas Orlebar Marsh.
c) Lease and Release, dated 29, 30 November 1796:
i) Thomas Shilleter;
ii) Thomas Orlebar Marsh;
iii) Thomas Abbot Green;
iv) Francis Green; and
v) John Robinson].
... A piece of meadow or pasture in Ampthill (then lately part of a close called the Hill Ground, and containing 2 acres); and a piece of ground adjoining, used as a garden.
F) Covenant, dated 2 February 1798:
i) Jeremy Fish Palmer;
ii) Ann Abbot Humberstone;
iii) Mary Gregory;
iv) said Sarah (then a minor); and
v) Ezra Eagles.
G) Assignment, dated 3 February 1798:
i) Jeremy Fish Palmer;
ii) Ann Abbot Humberstone; and
iii) Thomas Abbot Green. And
H) Award of Enclosure Commissioners, 1808, to Ezra Eagles. ... 2 plots of land on Ampthill Warren, in lieu of 4 rights of common in respect of messuages in Dunstable Street]. ... [As in E(a)]
Witnesses: William Green, R Webb, George King, John Gregory, Elizabeth Wilson, Vinson Roukins (clerk, of Toddington), and John Knight (churchwarden [? of Toddington]).