Reference
R6/5/20/13/1
Title
Copy conveyance
Date free text
30 September 1871
Production date
From: 1861 To: 1871
Scope and Content
Copy conveyance
Parties:
(i) Charles Romilly of Wilton Place, Belgrave Square [Middlesex]; George Russell of Chesham Place, Belgrave Square, esquire;
(ii) William, 8th Duke of Bedford;
(iii) Gilbert Jordan of Bedford, blacksmith
Reciting:
(I) will of Francis, 7th Duke of Bedford, of 7th May 1861 devising all his real estate to (i) and Thomas Henry, Baron Foley in trust for (ii) with power for (i) to sell
(II) death of Francis, 7th Duke of Bedford on 14th May 1861 and proof of his will and two codicils in PPR on 31st July 1861
(III) death of Thomas Henry, Baron Foley on 20th November 1869
(III) (i), with the consent of (ii), had agreed to sell (a) to (iii) for £130
Operative Part:
- (iii) gave £130 to (i);
- (i), with consent of (ii), conveyed (a) to (iii)
Property [as shown on attached plan]:
(a) blacksmith’s shop with buildings and yard adjoining in Bedford, Saint Paul bounded: N by property of James Hart; S by a roadway leading into the Rose Inn Yard; E by other property of (ii); W by Rose Inn of James Corcoran
Habendum:
- to (iii) for ever
Witnesses:
- Thomas Tacy Wing of Bedford Office, Bloomsbury
- William Stokes, butler to Charles Romilly;
- Thomas J. R. Davison of Bedford Office