HT1/16/1

Deed of exchange: [for counterpart, see HT1/11/19]

1 Oct 1829

From: 1773 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 the 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. IV. [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 deed to discharge property B from the payment of the weekly rentcharge of 2s. NOW consideration: exchange of property and 10s. paid by ii) to i), i) grant to ii) - [A] messuage or tenement in Well Street in the parish of St. Paul, Bedford, and the 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 the Churchwardens of St.Paul, Bedford Property was part of the premises purchased by i) from John Hawes, Esquire [see HT1/1/22-4 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 Lansdell, 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 witness: R.H.Gibbon, Clerk to Messrs. Pearse & Son, Solicitors, Bedford seals: 2 applied, and impressed seal on tag stamped ''THE SEAL OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE BEDFORD CHARITY'' 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,
Maddy,
Serjeant, Joseph,
Rose, Catherine,
Chambers, Thomas,
Pilkington, Edward,
Lansdell, John,
Elger, Thomas,
Clark, Ruth,
Clark, John,
Sugars, Ruth

title deeds, Bedford Charity, BUILDINGS & LAND USE, BEDFORD, yeoman, wills, national acts, rentals, Bedford Well Street, Bedford St.Paul's, HOUSING, gardens, orchards, shops, churchwardens, rights of way, cottages, Bedford Angel Street, SEALS & COATS OF ARMS