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Conveyance (Feoffment)

5 Aug 1662

From: 1662 To: 1662

i) Thomas Harding of Bedford, collarmaker, Clement Birridge of Bedford, currier, William Odell of Bedford, butcher, Humphry Skelton of Bedford, baker, and Robert Gaell of Newnham, Goldington, yeoman ii) John Grant of Bromham, baker, Edward Hill of Clophill, yeoman, and Richard Cooper of Bedford, heelmaker consideration: £80 paid by John Grant to i), Clement Birridge, William Odell, Humphry Skelton and Robert Gaell (at the direction of Thomas Harding) grant to Edward Hill and Richard Cooper (at the direction of John Grant) - messuage in Well Street in the parish of St. Paul, Bedford, formerly in the occupation of George Skelton and now in the occupation of Richard Skelton, baker, and now severed on the South with a pale or fence from an orchard formerly in the occupation of the said George Skelton and now in the occupation of Richard Skelton - slip of ground in the same parish adjoining Eastward upon the said messuage and extending southward from Well Street to the western end of the said south fence Abuttals to the whole property: :N. Well Street :E. partly on a tenement now or late of William White, blacksmith, formerly Nortons, cornering upon Well Street and Angel Street alias Sheepes cheaping, partly upon a tenement now or late of Michael Shepheard, and partly upon tenement now or late of William Blewitt :W. tenement now or late of Edward Munn, formerly Kirks :S. aforementioned orchard from which premises are divided partly by the said severing pale or fence, and partly by a straight line "(already staked out)" from the said pale to the South East Corner of the said tenement of Edward Munn Reserved to the said Humphry Skelton and Robert Gaell and the occupiers of the orchard, the liberty of passage and carriage through the slip of ground between the orchard and Well Street. To hold to Edward Hill and Richard Cooper for their own use, but in trust to be disposed of at the direction of John Grant. ii) agree to keep the ground "as it is now made and sett downe", and to erect and maintain "a sufficient fence with a gate to be continued therein for the above reserved passage." Humphry Skelton and Robert Gaell agree to allow Edward Hill and Richard Cooper liberty of entry to the orchard for erecting and repairing the fence. endorsed: Livery of Seisin. witnesses: William Johnson William Foster Symon Beckett Thomas Marson Richard Skelton Thomas Foster Edward Munn seals: three on tags signatures: i) (marks of Humphry Skelton and Robert Gaell)

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Harding, Thomas,
Birridge, Clement,
Odell, William,
Skelton, Humphrey,
Gael, Robert,
Grant, John,
Hill, Edward,
Cooper, Richard,
Skelton, George,
Skelton, Richard,
White, William,
Shepheard, Michael,
Blewitt, William,
Munn, Edward

title deeds, feoffment, buildings and land use, BEDFORD, collarmaker, currier, butcher, baker, Newnham, GOLDINGTON, yeoman, BROMHAM, CLOPHILL, heelmaker, HOUSING, Bedford Well Street, Bedford St.Paul's, fencing, orchards, blacksmith, Bedford Angel Street, rights of way, trusts, SEALS & COATS OF ARMS