Scope and Content
1)Lease and Release
i) Ambrose Reddall (vendor)
ii)John Morris (purchaser)
“Hand and Pen” Maulden then or late in occupation of Thomas Hickman
abutting Highway to Ampthill
N. ground belonging to Lyon Farm
W. and E. glebe land
Consideration £150
2, 3 Aug 1776
2)Enclosure Award for Maulden (his 1st allotment) to John Morris one plot of land in Ampthill Field (3 roods 2 perches)
abutting E. allotment to John Bolding
S. Bridle Road Ampthill to Flitwick
W. and N. 3rd allotment to Thomas Gostelow
19 Apr 1803
3) Will of John Morris of Ampthill esquire (died 6 December 1816)
to sons John and Joseph individually real estate
residue to them jointly
made 24 Jun 1816;proved Prerogative Court of Canterbury 20 Jan 1817
4) Will of John Morris, the younger (died 11 November 1827)
to son in law Henry Ashby of Staines, Middlesex and 2 daughters Mary Ann and Jane as Trustees with power of sale, real estate in Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire
made 4 Sep 1827;proved Prerogative Court of Canterbury 25 Feb 1829
5) Lease and Release
i) Joseph Morris and Martha his wife (vendors)
ii) Henry Ashby, Mary Ann Morris, Ampthill, spinster, Jane Morris, Ampthill, spinster (purchasers)
iii) Thomas Barnard
under agreement between John and Joseph Morris of Joseph to sell to John his moiety. Joseph’s moiety of estate including Maulden property.
Consideration £19,097 paid by 2) to 1) for freehold
£600 for copyhold
23, 24 Jun 1828
Note of death of Martha Morris 15 November 1856 and her burial at Ampthill
6)Lease and Release (Trust Settlement)
i) Henry Ashby, Mary Ann Morris, Jane Morris
ii) Henry Ashby and Sophia his wife (nèe Morris)
iii) Thomas Ashby the younger (trustee for Henry Ashby)
iv) Samuel Davis (trustee for leasehold property)
... 1/5 share of Sophia Ashby in property in Ampthill, Marston Moretaine, Flitwick, Husborne Crawley, Heath and Reach, Woburn, Dunstable, Houghton Regis including Bidwell, Maulden, Clophill, Houghton Conquest, Ridgmont, Eversholt, Wootton, Flitton, Pulloxhill, Greenfield, Salford, Toddington, Chalgrave, Hockliffe, Wilshamstead and St John’s Bedford, Bedfordshire
And Water Eaton, Little brickfield, Newport Pagnell, Wavendon, Fenny Stratford, Bow Brickhill, Newton Longville, Bletchley, Buckinghamshire.
(late estate of John Morris etc.) including close of pasture called Forty Acres adjoining parish of Ampthill (1 acre) now in occupation of John Brightman, Maulden.
18, 19 Nov 1828
7) Fine
plaintiff: Thomas Ashby junior
defendants: Henry Ashby and Sophia
...1/5th part of 60 messuages, 35 cottages, 10 lofts, 20 barns, 40 stables, 10 malthouses, 70 gardens, 25 orchards, 4 brewhouses, 3 coachhouses, 25 curtilages, 320 acres each of land, meadow, pasture and common of pasture for all manner of cattle in above Bedfordshire parishes
Michaelmas 1828
8) Lease and Release
i) Henry Ashby, Mary Ann Morris, Jane Morris
ii) Mary Ann Morris (vendor)
iii) Jane Morris (vendor)
iv) Catherine Morris (vendor)
v) John Morris (purchaser)
iv) Samuel Davis,
vii) Joseph Morris
viii) E Lucas
Reference to admissions in Manor Court of Cranfield, Houghton Regis, Woburn Abbotts, Leighton Buzzard and Stevington.
1/5th shares of 2), 3), 4), purchased by 5)
Consideration £27,136 freehold and leasehold.
£200 copyhold held of Manor of Cranfield
£66 copyhold held of Manor of Houghton Regis
£290 copyhold held of Manor of Woburn Abbotts
£250 copyhold held of Manor of Leighton Buzzard
£124 copyhold held of Manor of Stevington
NB Schedule :- Maulden
Messuage, cottage or tenement with stable, woodbarn, frontage, garden, orchard and small piece of land adjoining called the “White Hart” now in occupation Edward Dowdeswell.
And close of pasture called “40 Acres” (1 acre) now in occupation of John Brightman
23, 24 Dec 1831
9) Mortgage in £30,000 and 4½ % interest by Lease and Release
i) Edmund Lucas
ii) John Morris (mortgager)
iii) Mary Ann Morris, Jane Morris, Catherine Morris (mortgagees)
iv) Thomas Ashby the younger; Samuel Davis (trustees)
4/5th’s estate
27, 28 Dec 1831
10) Lease and Release
i) Henry Ashby (vendor)
ii) John Morris
iii) Thomas Ashby the younger
iv) Samuel Davis
v) Joseph Morris
vi) Edmund Lucas
Ashby’s 1/5th share
Consideration £5893 paid by 27 to 1
12. 13 May 1834
11) Mortgage in £10,000 and 4½% interest
i) Edmund Lucas
ii) John Morris (mortgagor)
iii) Joseph Morris (mortgagee)
iv) David Powell of St Helens Place in City of London, esquire (trustee)
...entirety of property including Brewery plant
15, 16 May 1834
12) Death of Samuel Davis, died and was buried at Leighton Buzzard (Ampthill deleted) 24 Apr 1843
Abstract prepared by J T Green of Woburn 1858