Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    NC990-991
  • Title
    Conveyance (Lease and Release) - £500 i) Edward Worster of Aspley Guise, yeoman and wife Anne, Robert Bumstead of St Andrews, Holborne, London, watchmaker ii) Thomas How of Aspley Guise, wool merchant iii) Richard How of London, linen draper
  • Date free text
    24, 25 Jun 1724
  • Production date
    From: 1724 To: 1724
  • Scope and Content
    Recites: During his marriage Edward Worster was seised of property to the value of £40. He became acquainted with Thomas How, who supplied him with clothes and other necessaries. As soon as Worster came of age, Thomas How took a mortgage of his estate for £96 [NC982] Marriage Settlement [NC988-9 above] Worster offered to repay the mortgage to How, who refused it because Worster had made prior mortgages of the same property without How's knowledge, and How had subsequently redeemed these mortgages himself. i) therefore brought a bill in Chancery, Easter 1720, to which How replied by exhibiting the prior mortgages and shewing that a total of £245 was due to him. Hearing in Chancery, 2 July 1722, at which an account was ordered to be made, and if the full debt was paid How was ordered to reconvey the property; otherwise the estate was to be sold. Richard How has contracted for the purchase of that part of the property not already sold to Thomas Walduck [NC979-980] NOW i) conveys to iii) (with consent of ii)) Messuage late in occupation Edward Worster, now in occupation Francis Monk, the messuage belonging to ii) S., close belonging to parsonage N., land leading to messuage W. Upper Close adjoining, 3 acres Blackwell Close adjoining, 5 acres Close called the Moores, 3 acres 2 acres meadow in Allumbridge Meadow:- 1 rood, Crawley Field SE., Widow Bumstead NW. 1 rood, Widow Bumsted SE., Mr How NW. ½ acre, Richard How E., Mr Cope NW. 1 rood, Thomas How SE. and NW. 1 rood, Thomas Gresham SE., Widow Bumsted NW. ½ acre, glebe SE., Richard How NW.
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