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RH9/10
Title
Contract for Purchase
i) Right Honourable Elizabeth Vassall Dowager Lady Holland, Right Honourable Henry Edward Lord Holland, Charles Richard Fox esquire, colonel in her Majesty’s Army
ii) Most Noble Francis Duke of Bedford
Consideration: £145,000
Date free text
14 July 1841
Production date
From: 1841 To: 1841
Scope and Content
- manors of Ampthill, Millbrook, Howend and Houghton Conquest
- Ampthill House
- messuage and appurtenances near thereto in occupation Samuel Swaffield
- 3,728 acres land in Ampthill, Millbrook, Howend and Houghton and Marston, particularised in the schedule below
- all other farms of i) in said parishes
Subject to payment to Houghton Almshouses and School of £24 p.a. and interest £2..10..0 to Richards Charity of Ampthill
- interest in tolls of market of Ampthill now let at £30p.a. with all fixtures in Ampthill House (excepting pictures affixed to walls there)
Subject as to lands mentioned in schedule to be in occupation of Charles Wheller and part of lands in occupation of Samuel Wheeler to £10 p.a. charged by deed 9 May 1838 now payable to William Doggett of Holland House for life and £40 p.a. to him after death of Elizabeth Vassall Lady Holland
Brief schedule giving names of farms and tenants
Signed: Benjamin Currey, agent for Lady Holland
Robert Bicknell, agent for Lord Holland
John Teesdale, agent for Colonel Fox
Russell 'wallpaper books' (Vol. V. no.284 pg.205)
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