• Reference
    HT1/11/15 & 16
  • Title
    Marriage Settlement (lease and release)
  • Date free text
    1, 2 Apr 1743
  • Production date
    From: 1743 To: 1743
  • Scope and Content
    i) John Clarke of Bedford, carpenter ii) John Sugars of Bedford, husbandman iii) Ruth Berry of Bedford, widow of John Berry late of Bedford, schoolmaster deceased, and one of the daughters of ii) iv) Thomas Whiteman of Cardington, mason, and Samuel Butler of Bedford, wheelwright Whereas marriage is intended between i) and iii), and i) has agreed to settle property in Cardington to uses declared, and ii) and iii) have agreed to settle premises in Bedford to uses declared NOW consideration: 5s. paid by iv) to i), ii) and iii), they grant to iv) - messuage, cottage or tenement with yard, orchard and Hemp land adjoining (3 roods) in Cardington, heretofore in the occupation of William Carless, since of Thomas Pryor, and now of ... Preston - messuage, cottage or tenement in the Parish of St. Paul, Bedford, in sheeps Cheeping otherwise Angel Street, late in the occupation of John Berry, and now in the occupation of Mrs. Maddey :S. messuage late of Catherine Rose, widow :E. Angel Street :W. ground late of Edward Pilkington, now or late of John Landsell To hold the messuage in Cardington to use of i) until the marriage, then to use of iii) for life, then to heirs, or in defauit to heirs of i) To hold the other messuage to use of ii) and iii) until marriage, then to use of i) for life, then to use of Ruth Berry for life in full of her jointure, then to heirs, or in default to heirs of iii) Covenant by i) to levy fine endorsed: [in pencil, and in a later hand] "Mrs. Berry afterwards Sugars had no child and the estate descended to her Brother John Sugars, Father of the present Mr. Sugars who made his will proved in London whereby he gave it to his son the present John Sugars subject to an annuity of £5..4s to Mrs. Johnson..." witnesses: Henry Horton Griffith Morgan seals: three applied on ribbon signatures: i), ii), and iii)
  • Level of description
    item