Reference
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Title
Abstract of Title of Thomas Gwyn Elger and John Elger to the Hassetts and Green Dragon Estate
Date free text
1837
Production date
From: 1735 To: 1837
Scope and Content
Abstract of Title of Thomas Gwyn Elger and John Elger to the Hassetts and Green Dragon Estate
(I) Will of John Thurloe Brace of 25 February 1735 which, inter alia, devised all real estate to Joseph Biscoe of Inner Temple, London as trustee to allow the testator’s wife to take rents and profits for her widowhood with the proviso that £80 per annum be paid to the testator’s son Harris Thurloe Brace whilst he was at Oxford, then £100 per annum when he went to on of the Inns of Court. On the testator’s wife’s death Biscoe was to convey all real estate to Harris Thurloe Brace; will proved in PCC on 17 June 1737
(II) Will of Harris Thurloe Brace of 9 January 1799 devising all real estate and rent in arrear at his decease to Rev J W Alexander for ever; will proved in PCC on 19 January 1799
(III) Lease and Release by way of Marriage Settlement of 26-27 May 1806 between (1) James Wadman Alexander of Rayne [Essex], (2) Caroline Greenhill and (3) John Alexander and Rev William Greenhill of Trinity College, Oxford; reciting (1) and (2) were to marry sand in which (1) conveyed property in Bedford, Saint Paul devised to him in (II) [Harris Thurloe Brace having been his uncle] to (3) – Habendum – to (3) to the use of (1) until the marriage; to the use of (1) for life; to the use of (1) and (2) during the life of (1); allowing (2) after the death of (1) to take rents and profits worth £150 as an annuity if there were children (if no children then to the use of (2) to the use of (1) and (2) during the life of (2)); preserving contingent remainders to any children of (1) and (2) as tenants in common
(IV) Lease and Release of 1-2 March 1836
Parties:
(i) Rev William Greenhill of Farnham [Essex];
(ii) James Wadman Alexander and Caroline, his wife
(iii) Thomas Gwyn Elger of Bedford, builder and John Elger of South Street, Grosvenor Square [Middlesex], builder
Reciting:
- the death of John Alexander on 20 December 1830
Operative Part:
- (iii) paid £3,700 to (i);
- (i), with the consent of (ii), conveyed (a) to (iii)
Property [as shown on included plan]:
(a) messuage in Bedford, Saint Paul called the Dragon or Green Dragon with yard, orchard and garden, formerly in the occupation of James Dennis, then John Palmer and John Mowbray, then William Coombs;
land, partly pasture, partly garden, in Bedford, Saint Paul adjoining (a) and containing 9 acres comprising (b)-(f)
(b) a close of pasture of half an acre formerly in the occupation of John Smith alias Lyant, then John Mowbray, then William Coombs;
(c) site of a mansion house called Hassetts, long since pulled down and close of adjoining meadow called Hassetts Close or Mooreys Close containing 4 acres;
(d) pasture, partly used as garden, formerly called Chappwell or All Hallows Close of 2½ acres;
(e) site of a cottage, long since pulled down, with a little piece of ground lying next to (d);
(f) little piece of ground formerly in the occupation of Richard Nightingale
Subject to annual rent charges of £1/4/- and £1/16/- imposed in 1797 on the inclosure of Bedford, Saint Paul etc.
(V) Indenture 4 March 1836
Parties:
(i) George Peregrine Nash of Bedford, brewer;
(ii) Thomas Gwyn Elger and John Elger
Reciting:
- inclosure award for Bedford, Saint Paul of 12 June 1797 charging (a)-(f) above with perpetual rents of £1/4/- and £1/16/- per annum;
- agreement by (i) to sell (a) to (ii) for £376 subject to the two annual rent charges
Operative Part:
- (ii) paid 10/- to (i);
- (i) granted to (ii) an annual rent charge of £3 to indemnify (ii) against the two annual rent charges; the sum not to be paid by (i) until (ii) were compelled to pay the same
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