Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    X173/104
  • Title
    Assignment by way of further assurance fro mortgage by (i) to (ii) for life of (i) i) Charles Morris, Portugal Street, Grosvenor Square, Middlesex, esquire ii) William Routh, Blackheath, Kent, esquire, Thomas Edgar, Upper Gloucester Place, Dorset Square, Middlesex, esquire, Sir Alexander Cornewall Duff Gordon, the Treasury, Whitehall, baronet
  • Date free text
    20 Jun 1849
  • Production date
    From: 1849 To: 1849
  • Scope and Content
    Reciting that under last will of Edmund Morris late of Chorley Wood, Hertfordshire, esquire, deceased dated 8 Jly 1824 and proved in the Prorogative Court of Canterbury 4 Jan 1827, the said Charles Morris has become (by reason of the death of his brother Henry Bebb Morris without issue) life tenant of estate Reciting that (i) has insured his own life for £2,100, and that (ii) have lent him £2,000 on the security of the life insurance ...Capital messuasge or tenement with appurtenances called Rickards ...Toft where a messuage called Cantletts formerly stood ...Messuage or tenement and wick orchard or pightle of pasture called the Wedgecroft ...Eight cottages ...135 acres and 68 acres land In the occupation of John Pope ...Homestall with yard garden barn and orchard 2 acres 29 perches ...The Lawn 30 acres 20 perches; The Paddock 3 roods 14 perches; Long Orchard 3 acres 3 roods 17 perches; all pasture; Stubbs field 6 acres 2 roods 12 perches; Bellamy Field 13 acres 16 perches; both arable Bellamy Spring wood ground 2 acres 1 rood 21 perches Hobbs field arable 12 acres 0 roods 6 perches; Rickets Spring wood ground 2 acres 10 perches; Great Ricketts Field 10 acres 3 roods 24 perches; Ley Colliers 15 acres 3 roods; Great Oldmoor Close 26 acres 30 perches; Gosmond Beech 15 acres 2 roods 18 perches; Long Oldimore 15 acres; ~Taylors Close 6 acres 1 rood 26 perches; Six Acre Field 6 acres; Six Acres Backfield a5 acres; Hill Field 11 acres 1 rood 39 perches; all arable Coalmans Orchard pasture 5 acres; Woodfield 15 acres 36 perches; Wedgecroft xx acres 3 roods both arable All called the Woodside Farm now in tenure of Joseph Richardson as tenant of (i) at rent of £250 per annum ...Messuage used as a beerhouse and blacksmiths shop in the occupation of Matthew Romberlake in Caddington, at a rent £15 per annum ...Two cottages let at £4 per annum each Covenant to surrender at court of Manor of Markyate, Hertfordshire ...Plot of ground being part of an ancient enclosure called Six Acre Close formerly property of Joseph Hornell esquire and allotted in exchange to John Arkely deceased containing 1 acre 32 perches
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