• Reference
    HF40/4/2/1
  • Title
    Abstract of Title of Trustees for Sale under Will of late Richard Foster esquire to leasehold messuage called “Swan” and 2 messuages, Castle Street, Cambridge (lot 58)
  • Date free text
    1859
  • Production date
    From: 1843 To: 1859
  • Scope and Content
    a) Surrender and New Lease 1) Mayor and Aldermen and Burgesses of Cambridge 2) Richard Foster (one of Aldermen) and Michael Foster of Little Shelford, gentleman 3) Richard Foster recites Lease for 40 years 1) Mayor etc. of Cambridge 2) Richard Foster rent £4..4s Acquittance 1s recites death of Richard Foster 17 December 1842 recites his Will; wife Martha, sons Richard, James Michael, William and Michael executors 23 Jan 1843 messuage or public house “The Swan” fronting Castle Street in parish of St Peter, Borough of Cambridge with cart shed and premises adjoining (in occupation of John Hall) And 2 cottages formerly in occupation of William Gray and John Foreman – now one unoccupied, other in occupation of James Holmes abutting N. yard and workshop in occupation of William Bell W. Pound Hill S. lane dividing premises from messuage called “Three Tuns”, in occupation of Thomas Weyman Fine £63 rent £4..4s 19 Dec 1850 b) Will of Richard Foster appoints brother Michael Foster of Little Shelford, Cambridgeshire, gentleman son Charles James Foster of Lincoln’s Inn, Middlesex, Barrister at Law Reverend John Griffith of Brighton, Sussex, clerk real and personal property in England, United States of America and Canada, including Brewery in Cambridge, houses in Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire and business as Spirit and Wine Merchant Codicil 30 April 1858, removes son puts in daughter Sophia Foster of Cambridge, spinster and Ebenezer Foster of Cambridge, solicitor and attorney 2nd Codicil 11 May 1858 minor changes regarding copyhold proved 12 May 1859 c) Deed Poll by Michael Foster refused bequests, i.e. ceases to be Trustee 16 Apr 1859 made 1859
  • Level of description
    item