Reference
Z1578/Bee/1/1
Title
Conveyance
Date free text
2 February 1859
Production date
From: 1857 To: 1859
Scope and Content
Parties:
(i) Harry Thornton of Turvey, esquire; Charles John Pearse, late of Craig’s Court, Westminster [Middlesex], now of Finsbury Place [Middlesex], esquire;
(ii) Lieutenant-General Sir Robert John Harvey of Moushold House near Norwich [Norfolk]; George Percy Elliott of Streatham [Surrey], esquire; Thomas Godfrey Sambrooke of Eaton Socon [Middlesex]
(iii) Samuel Teulon of Limpsfield [Surrey], esquire;
(iv) William Dacres Adams of Sydenham [Kent], esquire;
(v) John Spurgin, late of Guildford Street, now of Great Cumberland Street, Hyde Park [Middlesex], MD, esquire;
(vi) Thomas Blackhall of Queen Street, Mayfair, MD, esquire; Henry Walmisley of Eston Lodge, Tulse Hill, Brixton [Surrey];
(vii) James Wagstaff of Beeston, Sandy, cattle dealer
Reciting:
- at the time of the auction below (ii) were mortgagees on behalf of the General Reversionary and Investment Company of Lot 13, amongst others, for £53,275/10/- and interest;
- at the time of the auction below (i) were executors and devisees in trust of Colonel Godfrey Thornton, deceased and were entitled to equity of redemption in (a);
- decree in Chancery of Vice-Chancellor Stuart of 27 June 1857 in the case of the estates of Godfrey Thornton in which Henry Pearse and Mary, his wife amongst others, were plaintiffs and (i) defendants and in which it was ordered that the testator’s real estates be sold with the defendants at be liberty to concur in the sale;
- auction sale made by (ii) on 4 August 1857 by Beadel and Sons at The Mart, City of London, at which (vii) was highest bidder for Lot 13 at £156/17/5 and paid a deposit of £15/10/-;
- the auction resulted in full satisfaction of (ii)’s mortgage interests;
- Order of Vice-Chancellor Stuart that (i) be at liberty to receive all deposits and balance of purchase monies on sold lots;
- the legal estate of inheritance in Lot 13 was supposed to be vested in (iii) subserviently to the auction contract and (iv)-(vi) were supposed to be interested for residues of years on behalf of (ii)
Operative Part
- (vii) by concurrence of (ii) paid £156/17/5 to (i);
- (iii) by request of (i) and concurrence of (ii) conveyed (a) to (vii);
- (ii) released (a) to (vii);
- (iv)-(vi) surrendered (a) to (vii);
- (i) confirmed (a) to (vii)
Property:
(a) cottage and garden of 2 roods, 25 poles in Beeston, Sandy abutting Beeston Green and bounded: N and W by Manor Farm (Lot 9) sold to Allen Jeeves and being many years part in occupation of William Jeeves
Witnesses:
- T P Anderson of Lincoln’s Inn Fields, solicitor;
- John Macdonald, clerk to Anderson and Shoubridge of 1 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, solicitors;
- P Whishaw
Level of description
item