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Articles of Agreement for Sale

15 Jul 1868

From: 1796 To: 1868

i) John Nathaniel Foster of Sandy Place, esquire ii) Charles Powers of Biggleswade, merchant - copyhold messuage & freehold & copyhold premises described in schedule in consideration of: £3,150 (viz: £500 down, rest on 29 September at office of vendor's solicitor Mr Fowler in Town of Huntingdon) [details of conveyance, title etc.] title to bulk of property to start with Marriage Settlement of late John Foster esquire & wife Ann 12 September 1796; title to Little Meadow to start with conveyance from Lord Ongley 10 October 1838 & title to Front Garden with conveyance from devisees of Samuel Wells esquire to John Foster esquire 11 January 1833; vendor shall not be called upon to show title to strip of land on East of Front Garden formerly part of the Swan Garden & included in the Front Garden beyond conveyance to himself 24 July 1855; title to "the lsland" from conveyance to i) 29 February 1846; i) not to be required to distinguish freehold from copyhold in the Little Meadow & the Front Garden recites: Indenture 9 March 1868 (i) Lord John Thynne Francis John Thynne (ii) John Nathaniel Foster esquire copyhold estate of late John Foster esquire subject to payment of apportioned fee farm rent of £4.3.9 were released from the same vendor retains common rights & has exclusive use of building formerly a counting house adjoining to St Andrews & of the wine cellars underneath until completion of purchase & access to part of Little Meadow occupied by hay-stack until Christmas 1868 schedule: - house called St Andrews with offices, stables, excercising ground & buildings adjoining pleasure grounds, orchard & fruit garden & coachman's cottage late in occupation of John Brandon : North buildings of Messrs Powers & Weston, church yard & close of Mrs Weston : part East road to Mill : part East & part South malting yard & buildings called The Mill Malting : rest South & West river Ivel - freehold land called the Island in river Ivel opposite the pleasure grounds of St Andrews - Little Meadow on West side of river Ivel opposite St Andrews 1½ acres part freehold & part copyhold - freehold ground called Front Garden & part of the Swan Garden on East of public road leading to the Mill : North garden Mrs Culshaw : South cottage in occupation of James Thompson : East gable end of the barn & remainder of Swan Garden purchaser to fence East boundary of front garden with a brickwall & North East side with closed fence from East wall to point A on plan. Plan annexed showing Front Garden & part of the Swan Garden. Signature: ii) witness: Thomas Hooper, Bigglewade

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Foster, John Nathaniel,
Powers, Charles,
Foster, John,
Foster, Ann,
Lord Ongley,
Wells, Samuel,
Thynne, John,
Thynne, Francis John,
Brandon, John,
Weston & Powers,
Weston,
Powers,
Culshaw,
Thompson, James

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