Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    WI/135-136
  • Title
    Mortgage in Fee (Lease & Release); for £60: i) William White of Leighton Buzzard, farmer, & wife Martha ii) Sarah White of Leighton Buzzard, (widow of Thomas White, butcher) iii) William Biley of Leighton Buzzard, carman, & wife Ann iv) Charles Bonnick of Woburn, labourer.
  • Date free text
    16,17 March 1818
  • Production date
    From: 1818 To: 1818
  • Scope and Content
    – A cottage; 10 perches (part of a larger piece of land) in Leck Brook Furlong in the Middle Field bounded west by land of Mrs Ann Ashwell, east by copyhold land (purchased by William Biley off Mr John White, adjoining the turnpike road from Leighton Buzzard to Hockliffe south and abutting north of Bacon Hedge Way. Recites Will of Thomas White, dated 31 October 1815, proved 1817, whereby he devises all his land in the Open Fields of Leighton Buzzard (purchased off John Eavestaff & wife Mary), to his son, the said William White. A schedule of deeds, 1709-84, giving parties only on last membrane: (A) Feoffment, 1709 Elizabeth Trulove & Robert Haile to John Ashwell. (B) Feoffment, 1710: John Ashwell to John Scrivener. (C) Mortgage 1750: John Pepiatt (elder son & heir of Susan Pepiatt, the only child of the said John Scrivener) (D) Conveyance, 1758: John Pepiatt & wife Mary to John Eavestaff. (E) Assignment of Mortgage 1758: (i) William Pepiatt; (ii) John Pepiatt; (iii) John Eavestaff; & (iv) Edward Ashwell. (F) Feoffment, 1783 John Eavestaff & wife Mary to said Thomas White (G) Fine, 1784 George Stevens & Thomas White versus Thomas Butcher & wife Ann, Robert Butcher & wife Mary and John Eavestaff & wife Mary. Witness William Harland, clerk to Mr Day, attorney, Woburn.
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