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WE1022
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Conveyance (Feoffment); for £1999/£2682 (parts of a sum of £4650 and £31..16s..11d interest paid into the Bank of England to the credit of the cause in Exchequer Court: “Whitehurst versus Bonest”): [Copy on 7 ff. of paper; certified by Charles [?T]imes (solicitor, Hitchin) and William Hasleham (his clerk) on 12 Jun 1845]
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29 Apr 1842; copy 12 Jun 1845
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From: 1842 To: 1845
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i) Richard Gerrard Perryn of Trafford Hall (county Chester), esquire, and John Thomas Brooks of Flitwick, esquire; ii) Reverend Thomas Beach Whitehurst (only son and heir of Reverend Richard Hitchin Whitehurst of Westoning, deceased); iii) William Eames of Hawnes, farmer; iv) Samuel Wilson of Clifton, brewer; and v) Joseph King of Southill, yeoman. Recites Decree of H.M. Court of Exchequer on 2 May 1840 in a cause of Thomas Beach Whitehurst and wife Jane, and Harriet Mary Whitehurst (infant), and the Richard Gerrard Perryn and J T Brooks versus John Bonest (since deceased, the said William Eames, William Bonest, Mary Ann Bonest, Henry Bonest, Elizabeth Bonest and Rachel Bonest (by the original and amended Bill), and the same plaintiffs versus the said William Bonest (by the Bill of Revivor), ordering Richard Richardson esquire (Master to whom case was referred), to enquire whether it would be to the benefit of the infant defendants if the hereditaments (described in schedule) were sold; and recites the public sale dated 20 January 1841 (WE1021)]. ... [The property described in the first schedule, hereinafter abstracted]; (to hold to said Samuel Wilson and heirs to such uses as he shall appoint; and in default of such appointment, to use of Samuel Wilson and assigns during his life; and after determination of that estate, to use of said Joseph King during natural life of said Samuel Wilson, in trust for him and his assigns and then to use of Samuel Wilson and his heirs). ... [Also the property described in the second schedule, hereinafter abstracted]; (transferred to William Eames in trust for the said Samuel Wilson; and William Eames covenants to surrender the said property into the hands of the Lord of the Manor of Shillington, to use of said Samuel Wilson). (Thomas Beach Whitehurst covenants to produce to Samuel Wilson a deed of Settlement, dated 19 May 1831: i) Thomas Beach Whitehurst; ii) Alexander Hatfield esquire; iii) the said Jane Whitehurst (then Jane Hatfield, spinster); and iv) Richard Gerrard Perryn and John Thomas Brooks). (Appointment of the said Joseph King as attorney to deliver seisin). THE FIRST SCHEDULE - ...A messuage (now used as 2 tenements) formerly in the tenure successively of Francis Wells, John Clark, Thomas Phipp and John Taylor, since of William Honour or of William Rowell, then of William Dawson, and now of [blank] Bonest widow and another; and a close belonging; both in Lower Stondon in Shillington, comprising 1 acre 30 perches. ...Also a close of pasture at Lower Stondon called Custards containing 1 acre 19 perches bounded NW. by the ground hereinbefore described; NE. by an old enclosure called Guineters or Ginity Wood, SE. by an allotment to Robert Wilkinson, and on SW. by an ancient enclosure of James Gazeley; ...also an allotment in Holwellbury Field containing 17 acres 2 rood 16 perches in Lower Stondon, bounded N. by the highway from Henlow way post to Shillington, E. by an allotment of 2 acres 1 rood 21 perches (comprised in 2nd schedule), and S. and W. by an allotment to Samuel Crawley; (which said last close forms the W. part of a close of arable called Gravel Piece, containing 19 acres 1 rood 11 perches); ...also an allotment of 30 perches in Holwellbury Field, bounded N. by the said highway, S. by an allotment to Mary Huckle (exchanged to Samuel Crawley); (which said allotment forms part of a close called Road Piece, containing 10 acres 1 rood); ...also 3 allotments lying together in Holwellbury Field (containing respectively 1 acre 1 rood 24 perches, 1 acre, and 4 acres), bounded N. by the said public highway, E. by the turnpike road from Hitchin to Bedford, and S. by an allotment to Mary Huckle (exchanged to Samuel Crawley); (which said allotments form the other part of the close called Road Piece); ...an allotment of 18 acres 27 perches in Greenhill Field in Lower Stondon, bounded N. by the parish of Upper Stondon, E. by the turnpike road from Hitchin to Bedford and S. by the public highway from Henlow way post to Shillington; (which said allotment comprises a field called Spinney Field containing 16 acres 1 rood 18 perches, and the E. side of another field called Millard’s Baulk); ...an allotment of 14 acres 38 perches in Greenhill Field, bounded N. by the parish of Upper Stondon, E. by an allotment to Robert Wilkinson, and S. by the said highway; (which said allotment comprises a field called Greenhill (10acres 26 perches), and part of a field called Tine Hill (4 acres 12 perches); (all which said property were formerly occupied by Joseph Eames, and at the time of the sale by William Armstrong). ...And also an allotment of 4 acres 14 perches in Tine Hill Field in Upper Stondon, bounded N. by land set out to Trinity College, Cambridge, E. by ancient enclosures, and W. by a private road; (which said allotment and the part of the previous allotment form together the field called Tine Hill, containing 8 acres 26 perches). ...And also an allotment of 2 acres 2 roods 22 perches in White Wall Field in Upper Stondon, bounded N. by an allotment to Mr Long, and W. by the public road; (which said allotment has been incorporated with a close called Goss Hill, containing together 7 acres 1 rood 30 perches). THE SECOND SCHEDULE- ...A messuage in Lower Stondon in Shillington, with 2 orchards belonging (being part of a farm formerly called Dixon’s Farm), containing together 1¼ acres; ...also a close of pasture in Lower Stondon, formerly called Ginity and now Ginneters Wood, containing 1 acre 2 roods 29 perches, situated on the NE side of a close called Custards, (formerly held with the said farm, and then in occupation of Elizabeth Phipp, but since of William Armstrong); ...also 1 acre 2 roods 35 perches (part of an allotment in Holwellbury Field in Lower Stondon containing 2 acres 1 rood 21 perches), bounded N. by the public highway from Henlow way post to Shillington, E. by the residue of said allotment (now forming part of a close called Road Piece), S. by an allotment to Samuel Crawley, and W. by an allotment of 17 acres 2 roods 16 perches (with which this allotment forms Gravel Piece); and 2 roods 26 perches (residue of the said allotment), bounded E. by an allotment of 30 perches (with which it forms part of Road Piece), and W. by the last-described allotment; ...also an allotment of 3 acres, bounded E. by an allotment of 1 acre 1 rood 24 perches (therewith forming the rest of Road Piece), and S. by an allotment to Mary Huckle (exchanged to Samuel Crawley); and also 48 acres 2 roods 22 perches in Green Hill Field in Lower Stondon, bounded N. and part of W. by the parish of Upper Stondon, E. by an allotment of 18 acres 27 perches, part of S. by the public highway before-mentioned, on another part of W. and remaining part of S. by the homestead (described first in this schedule), and old enclosures (at the time of the Award) belonging to Mary Huckle, and on remaining part of W. by the public highway from Lower Stondon to Upper Stondon; (part of which allotment (4 acres 3 roods 8 perches) forms part of the close called Goss Hill, an adjoining part forms a close called Ryelands (20 acres 3 roods 2 perches), and the remaining part forms the residue of the close called Millard’s Baulk); all late in occupation of James Eames, and (at the time of the recited sale) of William Armstrong] Witness: George Austin (solicitor, Shefford)
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