Scope and Content
l) Thomas Reynolds of Baldock, Hertfordshire, butcher & Sarah, wife
Philip Reynolds of Southwark, Surrey, butcher & Frances Sarah, wife
William Reynolds of Market Street, parish of St James, Middlesex, butcher & Abigail, wife
Thomas (eldest son & heir), Philip & William are devisees in will of Thomas Reynolds late of Clothall, Hertfordshire, butcher.
2) Henricus Octavus Roe of Baldock, Hertfordshire, trustee for executors of John Thurgood late of Baldock, 'malster.'
3) Edward Cooch the younger of Baldock, trustee.
4) James Ind of Baldock, brewer & Mary, wife, formerly Mary Thurgood, spinster
Robert Thurgood of Baldock, gentleman & Mary, wife
Thomas Thurgood of Baldock, baker & Susannah, wife
Mary Ind, Robert & Thomas Thurgood are 3 children & devisees of John Thurgood deceased.
James Ind & Robert Thurgood surviving executors of John & Jane Thurgood late of Hinxworth, Hertfordshire, farmer. Widow sole devisee;
John died without issue, eldest son & one of executors of John Thurgood, brother to heir Robert.
5) Thomas Barns of Baldock, gentleman, only surviving executor of Robert Thurgood late of Baldock, brewer, deceased, Mortgagee of 1 moiety leased for 1500 years
6) John Foster of Biggleswade, merchant, mortgagee of moiety leased for 1000 years
7) Ann Salmon of Bilderstone, Suffolk, widow [Bildeston]
8) William Foster of Biggleswade, merchant
Recites:
(A) Leases & releases, 19 & 20 May 1755 and 14 & 15 November 1755 See X440/371-2 & 377-8 NB cottage in Saffron Ground now burnt down
(B) Leases & Releases, 19 & 20 May 1755 and 14 & 15 November 1755 [See X440/374-5 & 379-80]
(C) Will of Thomas Harris, 27 January 1757: X440/383
Ann Harris married George Hoye of Odsey, Gilden Morden, Cambridgeshire, yeoman. Benjamin Harris sole executor.
(D) Mortgage by demise, 13 May 1762; X440/385 & deed of further charge, 1771: X440/385 interest at £4 10s % per annum.
(E) Lease & Release to make Tenant to Precipe for Suffering Common Recovery: X440/388 4 & 5 November 1777
Fine: X440/389A&B & Common Recovery: X440/390 both Michaelmas Term 1777
(F) Mortgage by demise for years: X440/391 ... 500 years at £5% per annum 21 December 1779
(G) Lease & Release to assign Mortgage Term: X440/393-4 1 & 2 August 1788
(H) Lease & Release & Covenant to Levy Fine: X440/417-8 10 & 11 August 1772
Fine: X440/420
... - Moiety of property in Biggleswade
- Delves Piece, 20 acres on South side of town: formerly William Hunt deceased, Henry Rudd & James Levitt or 1 of them, Edward Rudd, Thomas Love, Richard Hyde, Thomas Marshall.
- The Spectacles, pieces of meadow; formerly William Hunt, Henry Rudd & James Levitt, Thomas Love, Richard Hide & Thomas Marshall.
: East common highway
: West River
...Little Meadow 1 acre 3 roods
...South Meadow 3 acre 28 perches
...Farther Mead West 6 acres 1 rood 1 perch
...Middle Mead West 5 acres 29 perches
...River Slipe 1 acre 1 rood 25 perches Trinity 1772
(l) Lease & Release & Covenant to Levy Fine: X440/419A&B 10 & 11 August 1772
Fine: X440/420 ... - MOIETY Trinity 1772
(J) Mortgage by Demise: X440/421... at £4% per annum. 12 August 1772
(K) Will of Thomas Reynolds: X440/423 8 March, 1777 Proved at Archdeaconry Court of Huntingdon, Hitchin, Hertfordshire 1780
(L) Assignment of Mortgage: X440/427
... Will of Thomas Marshall 26 February 1773. (Proved in Prerogative Court of Canterbury) 26 January 1791
(M) Will of John Thurgood, senior: X440/425,
...NB share in moiety also devised to Mary Ind, wife of James Ind 3 April 1781.
Proved in Prerogative Court of Canterbury.
William Thurgood died April 1785 under 21, without issue
1/8th of moiety vested in John Thurgood son, Robert, Thomas, James, Sarah, Hannah Thurgood & Mary Ind.
(N) Will of John Thurgood, son: X440/426 5 May 1788
James, Sarah, & Hannah Thurgood, devisees of father, minors.
(O) Robert Thurgood, brewer, dead. Will proved in Prerogative Court of Canterbury.
Sarah Clutterbuck, John Thurgood father, Thomas Barns executors:
Sarah Clutterbuck and John Thurgood since died. Barns entitled to principal of £200 & further charge of £200.
(P) Thomas, Philip & William Reynolds seised of 1 moiety;
H. O. Roe, as trustee for James Ind & Robert Thurgood executors of John Thurgood senior.
Entirety of property for £1240: to 7)
i) £615 to 1).
ii) £625 to James & Robert Thurgood
£400 mortgage payment due to Thomas Barns
£658 17s debt: £615 to be paid to 6) by 7) & £43 17s by 1)
Bond of £500 14 July 1791
7) to pay Sarah, Hannah & James Thurgood on reaching majority & making 7) conveyance £89 5s 8½d for each 7th part: interest meanwhile at £4% per annum due 5 January & 5 July, for occupation meanwhile by 7).
Now:
Release of property leased previous day: X440/434-6
Assignments of mortgage to William Foster: X440/437
i) Moiety of lands demised for 1500 years, from 5)
ii) Moiety of lands demised for 1000 years, from John Foster
Witnesses: Thomas, Sarah, Philip, Frances Sarah, William & Abigail Reynolds;
H. O. Roe, Edward Cooch, James & Mary Ind, Robert, Mary, Thomas, Susannah, Jane Thurgood; Thomas Barnes, John Foster.
endorsed:
Acknowledgments of receipts by Thomas Barnes, Thomas, Philip & William Reynolds, Jane & Robert Thurgood, John Foster (twice), James Ind, Robert Thurgood, Thomas Thurgood, Jane Thurgood.
Witness: Isaac Hindley of Baldock, Hertfordshire, William Nash of Royston, Hertfordshire
Note of interlineations in deed.
Witnesses: William Cooch & William Johnson, Clerks to Mr Cooch. 14 July 1791