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SJ1501-1502
Title
Mortgage (Conveyance by Lease and Release) by 1) and 2) to 3) to secure £8,000
Date free text
12 Oct 1819
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From: 1771 To: 1819
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1) Thomas Gell, late of Riseley, now of Sharnbrook, gentleman 2) Benjamin Welstead, Kimbolton, esquire 3) Robert Talbot, Sharnbrook, gentleman reciting Conveyance by i) to iii) of 1, 2 November 1771 and subsequent recovery between: i) Charles Dymoke Willaume, Tingrith, esquire ii) Henry Fothergill, Bedford Row, Holborn, gentleman iii) the Reverend David Tanquery, Woburn, clerk ... manor or reputed manor of Ouze ... manor or mansion house called the Messuage by the Water Side in Sharnbrook formerly in tenure of Joseph Godfrey M.D. then late of Mary Langley, widow, then of Thomas Wells ... cottage in Sharnbrook with barn and stable in tenure of Thomas and John Wheatley and then of Thomas Wells ... 2 closes of pasture on the north of the Mansion House and called Dove House Close and Great Home or Great Close 14 acres, once in the occupation of William Harper and Thomas Elmers, afterwards of Joseph Godfrey ... pasture close next New Close field containing 4 acres ... 2 closes of meadow called Long Holme or mead and Little Holme or mead 6 acres, lying on South of Dovehouse Close, Great Home and New Close, and North of the river Ouze ... pasture close called Bridge or Burge Close near mansion house, 5 acres ... 144 acres 1 rood land in the common and open fields of Sharnbrook and Odell part of which enclosed with a stone pit and quarry all formerly held by George Cobb, gentleman and in various [stated] tenures ... close of pasture in Bletsoe containing 4 acres formerly in tenure of John Smith and afterwards of John Hipwell then Thomas Wells ... royalty and liberty of fishing in the river Ouze and the soil of the river which formerly belonged to the manor or reputed manor of Langtons or Langhtons and Parentines as that which anciently belonged to the manor or reputed manor of Ouze and the Messuage by the Waterside and all islands and reed beds reciting that David Tanquery died July 1780 intestate and without issue, leaving the Reverend Thomas Tanquery of Tingrith, clerk, his only brother and heir at law, and that the Reverend Thomas Tanquery by his will dated 23 October 1782 devised the same to his son Charles Tanqueray for ever, and has since died reciting Marriage Settlement 15, 16 February 1797 of i) and ii) i) the Reverend Charles Tanqueray, then of Bicester, Oxfordshire, clerk ii) Martha Elizabeth Littlehales, spinster iii) Margaret Littlehales iv) Joseph Laurentius Littlehales the Reverend Edward Tanquery of Tingrith, Bedfordshire, clerk Joseph Gascoyne Littlehales, B.N.C, Oxford, esquire Thomas Smith, Red Lion Street, Clerkenwell, Middlesex, gentleman by which settlement the premises were put in trust to the uses of the settlement reciting indentures of 11, 12 July 1805 between i) the Reverend Charles Tanqueray, then of Halesworth, Suffolk, one of the sons and devisees of Thomas Tanqueray, the only brother and heir of David Tanqueray ii) the Reverend Edward Tanquery Joseph Gascoyne Littlehales, then of Mixbury, Oxfordshire, clerk Thomas Smith, Chapter House, St Pauls Churchyard, London, gentleman iii) Thomas Gell iv) Benjamin Welstead being a Conveyance to iii) of ... the premises as in the Conveyance of 1, 2 November 1771 (the first recital above) except for to closes called Longholme and Littleholme which had been sold reciting enclosure of Sharnbrook, and allotments and exchanges reciting indentures of 14, 15 August 1818 by way of Mortgage to secure £1,100 advanced to ii) by iii) i) Charles Welstead, Berners Street, St Marylebone, Middlesex, gentleman ii) Thomas Gell iii) Robert Talbot ... messuage in Sharnbrook and arable lands ... Emminshall or Saunders Close in Sharnbrook 2 acres once in the tenures of Philip Norman and John Tussell afterwards of John Eyles, which were late the estate of William Drury Lowe, esquire and were conveyed to the use of Thomas Gell by indentures of lease and release dated 2, 3 April 1804, the release being between George Richards; William Drury Lowe; Thomas Gell; and Marion Welstead, surveyor [later description: Home Close 5 acres 1 rood 30 perches; Barders close 1 acre 10 perches; Larkins close 8 acres 2 roods; Eight Acre close 8 acres 32 perches; Spinney 1 rood 32 perches; Dry close 8 acres 3 roods 30 perches; Peavers close 5 acres 2 roods 10 perches; and 47 acres 2 roods 11 perches open field arable in Sharnbrook] reciting changed descriptions as a result of enclosure and exchanges. reciting indentures 11, 12 October 1819 between i) Ann Hind, widow ii) Ann Hind, spinster iii) Thomas Gell iv) Samuel Sharman senior, Wellingborough, esquire and a fine levied by ii) to iii) and declaration of uses on ... property in Sharnbrook and Bletsoe reciting that the £1,100 secure by the mortgage has not been repaid and that Thomas Gell is now in need of a further sum of £6,900 which Robert Talbot has agreed to advance in addition to the £1,100 Conveyance by way of Mortgage by 1) and 2) to 3) to secure a total of £8,000
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