HT1/11/19

Deed of Exchange

1 Oct 1829

From: 1829 To: 1829

i) Trustees of the Bedford Charity ii) John Sugars of Bedford, yeoman iii) Jenny Johnson of Bedford, widow Recites that ii) owned property (B) below by virtue of the will of his father, John Sugars, proved in Prerogative Court of Canterbury. on 3 June 1783, subject to a weekly payment of 2s. to iii), described by mistake in will as Jane Johnson Whereas: i) have agreed with ii) under the terms of "An Act for the better management ... of the estates given ... for a ... school in the Town of Bedford ... ", 7 Geo. lV. [1826/7] for the exchange of properties and for £20 to be paid to ii) by way of equality of exchange iii) has agreed to join in presents to discharge property B from the payment of the weekly charge of 2s. NOW consideration: exchange of property and 10s. paid by ii) to i), i) grant to ii) (A) - messuage or tenement in Wells Street, in the parish of St. Paul Bedford, and all that garden and orchard adjoining on the south side of the messuage, in the occupation of Elizabeth Coombs. Formerly erected on the site of a shop in the occupation of Robert Huckle :N. Well Street :E. and S. other properties of Bedford Charity :W. messuage and hereditaments belonging to Churchwardens of St. Paul, Bedford Property was part of the premises purchased by i) of John Hawes, Esquire. [see HT 1/1/22-4 for conveyance and plan, 1773] Reserved to the trustees, the way or passage under the chamber at the East end of the messuage, now used as a way from Well Street to certain other cottages or tenements of the Trustees. ALSO Consideration: exchange of property, and £20 paid by i) to ii), and 10s paid by i) to iii), ii) grants and quitclaims to i) (B) - messuage, cottage or tenement in Sheep's Cheaping now Angel Street in the parish of St. Paul, Bedford, formerly (in 1743) in the occupation of Mrs. Maddy, and now in the occupation of Joseph Serjeant. :S. messuage formerly of Catherine Rose, lately purchased by the Trustees of Thomas Chambers :E. Angel Street :W. Ground formerly of Edward Pilkington, afterwards of John Landsell, and lately purchased by the Trustees of Thomas Elger Premises were formerly the property of Ruth Clark, wife of John Clark, and on her death without issue in the lifetime of her husband, it descended to her brother John Sugars, deceased. endorsed: receipt by ii) to i) for £20 also endorsed [1971] : Note of registration of freehold title in H.M. Land Registry, no BD 29157 witness: R.H. Gibbon, Clerk to Messrs. Pearse & Son, Solicitors, Bedford seals: 2 applied, and seal of Bedford Charity [as on HT1/10/13]. signatures: John Whitehouse, Clerk to the Trustees of the Bedford Charity, ii) and iii)

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Bedford Charity,
Sugars, John,
Johnson, Jenny,
Coombs, Elizabeth,
Huckle, Robert,
Hawes, John,
Maddey,
Serjeant, Joseph,
Rose, Catherine,
Chambers, Thomas,
Pilkington, Edward,
Clarke, Ruth,
Clarke, John,
Land Registry

title deeds, buildings and land use, Bedford Charity, trustees, BEDFORD, yeoman, wills, national acts, HOUSING, Bedford Wells Street, gardens, orchards, shops, churchwardens, rights of way, cottages, Bedford Angel Street, Bedford St.Paul's, SEALS & COATS OF ARMS