X440/335

Abstract of Title of Messrs Bull & Wilkerson to pieces of meadow ground in Biggleswade

1840

From: 1800 To: 1840

X440/330-1 7 July 1803 will of Dennis Herbert devising freehold & copyhold (except estate at Girtford, Sandy) to eldest son George Herbert, executor, who proved in Prerogative Court of Canterbury 26 November 1803 16 March 1808 will of George Herbert devising £50 per annum to aunt Elizabeth Stevens for life & £20 p.a. to friends Elizabeth P. Taylor & M. Taylor [marginal note that annuitants are dead] & all estates, subject to above, to brother C.P. Herbert & N.V. Herbert as tenants in common (estates being in Biggleswade, Sandy, Shefford, Potton, & Aldermanbury in London; will proved 8 August 1808 30 June 1810 Enfranchisement by Lord of the Manor of Biggleswade of the property to C.P. & N.V. Herbert X440/332-3 X440/334 [on dorse] 13 July 1825 Will of Samuel Bull freehold estate at Biggleswade, dwelling house at Bassingbourn Cambridgeshire, barn in Reverend William Jameson's allotment in Fen Bassingbourn & all personal property to executors to pay legacies, viz: £50 to sister, late brother Joseph's widow £20 to Sarah daughter of nephew Joseph Bull £10 to Dodkins Trust for maintaining Free School at Bassingbourn Cambridgeshire £10 to Treasurer of the Lying-In Society at Bassingbourn £20 to Treasurer of Auxiliary British & Foreign Bible Society for Cambridgeshire £20 to Treasurer of London-Missionary Society £10 to Treasurer of Baptist Missionary Society £10 to Treasurer of Hometon Education Society Meeting at the Kings Head, Poultry, London £10 to John Newling (son of testator's late wife) of Melbourn, Cambridgeshire £30 to servant Lettice Norman bequest of gloves, hatband & 5 guineas for preaching funeral sermon £50 to friend Thomas Prime of Bassingbourn farmer also tobacco canister & silver tobacco box & lease of Jameson's land although not the produce £30 to John Trigg senior of Bassingbourn & Scots edition of the Pilgrims Progress £20 to John Walters senior of Shingay, Cambridgeshire bequest of several works to various persons residue to nephews Joseph & Samuel & John Bull of London said nephew Joseph of Chancery Lane London & friend James Wilkerson of Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire farmer proved by executors Prerogative Court Canterbury 6 July 1826 (sworn under £800) endorsed: Chapman, Biggleswade [contains some marginal notes] date of abstract: 1840

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Bull, Samuel,
Wilkerson, James,
Herbert, Dennis,
Herbert, George,
Stevens, Elizabeth,
Taylor, Elizabeth F,
Taylor, M,
Herbert, Cornelius Pateman,
Herbert, Nathaniel Vincent,
Jameson, William,
Bull, Joseph,
Bull, Sarah,
Newling, John,
Norman, Lettice,
Prime, Thomas,
Trigg, John,
Walters, John,
Bull, John

BUILDINGS & LAND USE, BIGGLESWADE, Biggleswade fields, wills, freehold land, copyhold, annuities, ESTATES (LANDED), SANDY, SHEFFORD, POTTON, City of London Aldermanbury, enfranchisement, Samuel will: Bull, HOUSING, Bassingbourn, agricultural buildings, clergy, money, CHARITIES, Melbourn [Cambridgeshire], servant, farmer, tobacco, agricultural leases, books, Shingay, Holborn Chancery Lane, farmer