Reference
WL1000/1/CHAL/1/3
Title
Bond of Indemnity
Date free text
26 May 1869
Production date
From: 1837 To: 1869
Scope and Content
Bond of Indemnity from John Thomas Green of Woburn, gentleman to Joseph Reeve, late of Leighton Buzzard, shoemaker, now of Tebworth, publican, for £400
Reciting:
- will of James Whinnett of 6 October 1837 devising his public house where he dwelt with adjoining pightle and orchard to in Tebworth to James Whinnett and Thomas Sayell as trustees to receive rents and profits to support his wife and educate his daughter natural Flora and his other child Jane Whinnett and, after his youngest daughter became 21, the property was to be devised to his natural daughter Flora. He charged other real estate, but not the Queen's Head, with payments to his wife;
- death of Joseph Whinnett on 1 October 1838 which was proved on 25 March 1839 in PCC;
- James Whinnett's wife Mary and daughters Jane and Flora all survived him;
- Flora married Alfred Hack by whom she had six children under the age of twenty one;
- Jane married Joseph Davis Bradshaw of Tebworth, farmer;
- mortgage of 8 December 1863 from (1) Alfred Hack and Flora, his wife, to (2) Thomas Linnell and John Thomas Green for £300 at 5% interest secured on the Queen's Head;
- Alfred Hack made default on the mortgage and the Queen's Head was sold by Thomas Linnell and John Thomas Green to William Maddocks for £350 and he to Joseph Reeve for £360;
- conveyance of 30 August 1867 from (1) Thomas Linnell and John Thomas Green and (2) William Maddocks to (3) Joseph Reeve of Queen's Head with pightle and orchard adjoining formerly in the occupation of Edward Bonner;
- this bond was part of the agreement leading to the conveyance to Joseph Reeve
Operative Part:
- Joseph Reeve was to enjoy the Queen's Head without claim by Jane Bradshaw under the will of James Whinnett
Witness:
- Harry Thomas Call, clerk to John Thomas Green of Woburn, solicitor
Level of description
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