Reference
WE2062
Title
Feoffment (Trust Deed appointing additional trustees)
Date free text
16 Apr 1822
Production date
From: 1822 To: 1822
Scope and Content
1) Most Noble John Duke of Bedford
Honourable William Russell esquire (Lord William Russell)
George Cardale of Milbrook, clerk
Samuel Davis of Ampthill, gentleman
Edward Platt of Lidlington esquire
(Old trustees)
2) Right Honourable Richard Vassal, Lord Holland
Honourable Henry Edward Fox (his son)
Reverend Henry Hartop Knapp of Ampthill, clerk
John Morris of Ampthill esquire
Joseph Morris of Ampthill esquire
Honourable Francis Russell (called Marquis of Tavistock)
Thomas Chapman of Ampthill, surgeon.
a) cottage and garden untenanted , 1 rood 26 perches
b) Soho Close in occupation H Spring, 4 acres 3 roods 30 perches
(combined total of a) and b))
c) The Duck Riddy in occupation of William Cook, 2 acres 2 roods 19 perches
d) garden ground in occupation of Thomas Axam, 3 acres 14 perches.
e) Allotment in Town Close in occupation of Thomas Gibbs, 3 acres 22 perches
f) Allotment in Town Close called the Rector’s Close in occupation of Thomas Gibbs, 1 rood 24 perches.
combined total of e) and j) 3 acres 2 roods 6 perches
g) sundry tenements against the Church in occupation of poor people, 18 perches
h) House and shop in Church Street in occupation of John Beech, 17 perches
i) House, bakehouse and yard in occupation of John Bartram, 1 rood 7 perches
j) House and shop in occupation of Charles Hailey, 2 perches
k) house and smith’s in Wooburn Street, Samuel Benbow deleted in pencil and replaced by William Farnell, 11 perches
l) allotment in occupation of William Morris, 2 acres 5 perches
m) allotment in exchange from William Exton, 2 roods 34 perches
n) allotment in exchange from John Morris, 4 acres 8 perches
o) allotment in exchange from Robert Gibbs, 3acres 2 roods 10 perches
p) John Robinson, 1 acre 2 roods 25 perches
Total l) - p) 11 acres 3 roods 32 perches
Total above, all in Ampthill parish 11 acres 3 roods 32 perches
And “Moiety of house, yard, garden and allotment in occupation of William Summerfield, 2 acres 3 roods 39 perches
(Moiety in schedule but not in actual deed) Maulden.
all marked on plan in margin of 1st skin
Consideration 10s
Last skin. Schedule re terms of the trust
present feoffees and feoffees appointed by the master to stand seised of property in Ampthill and moiety of house in Maulden, in trust for use of the industrious poor persons belonging to the parish of Ampthill.
other moiety for use of poor persons of Maulden.
lease properties for most improved annual rents on lease of up to 7 years.
Can appoint certain of the cottages for rent free occupation for poor persons.
Rents to be applied for use of “settled inhabitants of parish of Ampthill”.
Whether immediately objects for relief under Poor Law Acts or not.
Accounts to be kept and be open for inspection once a year by parishioners of Ampthill who are rated to the relief of the poor at £5 or more at a General Vestry to be called by any 3 of the inhabitants to be so rated between 15 February and 15 March every year.
Trustees to submit accounts to 2 Justices of district if thought necessary by the Vestry. Accounts to be kept separate from general parochial accounts.
Donors always intended Feoffees should run charity “not answerable to the ordering or intermeddling of the Churchwardens and Overseers or Visitors and Guardians of the Poor of Ampthill”.
Feoffees to meet in the chancel of Parish Church of Ampthill “as often as it may be thought necessary” called by 2 Feoffees, 3 to be a quorum (decisions binding till next General Meeting)
Account Book and Minute Book to be kept.
Title deeds to be kept in parish church of Ampthill with 3 locks. keys to be kept by 3 of the feoffees.
Rector if resident to hold one Parchment on outside of box saying who holds the keys.
As soon as 6 feoffees die, 6 more must be enfeoffed by the survivors.
Witnesses include: Francis Williams, Woburn Abbey; John Batchelor, clerk to Mr Platt of Lidlington; George Carter Cardale, Millbrook; Thomas Terry, clerk to Messrs Morris of Ampthill; Edward Chapman, Bedford; William Clark, servant to Mr Davis; Thomas Whitehead of Ampthill; Evan Jones junior, clerk to Greene and Son of Ampthill, solicitors; Henry Nethersole, 15 Essex Street, Strand, London;
Note of Delivery of Seisin witnessed by Evan Jones as above; Robert Furze junior, clerk to Messrs Eagle and Son, solicitors of Ampthill.
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