Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    RY523-524
  • Title
    Conveyance (Lease and Release) by i) to iii)
  • Date free text
    21/22 Feb 1710/1
  • Production date
    From: 1676 To: 1711
  • Scope and Content
    i) John West, Leighton Buzzard, joiner ii) Thomas Shotbolt, Leighton Buzzard, gentleman, trustee of i) iii) Arthur Tarsey, Leighton Buzzard, freemason Conveyance (Lease and Release) by i) to iii) ... upper part of close of pasture lying behind and on North of an inn of i) called the Mermaid in Leighton Buzzard, 1 acre by estimate as now staked out and mounded from the lower part of the same, being the yard of the Mermaid Inn, bounded West by land of widow Ellyott and East by ground belonging to the Cock and the Raven, and North by Fryday Lane ... the granary on part of the pightle ... moiety of the Dunghill hole to the North ... slipe of ground extending in a line from the North West corner of a barn belonging to the Raven, to a stake lately driven in ... liberty of ingress and egress over Mermaid yard to take goods to window or pitching hole of the barn belonging to the Raven Inn all of which belong to the Mermaid Inn, and by a feoffment dated 16 September 1676 were conveyed by Thomas Wigg senior, gentleman, son and heir of John Wigg, gentleman deceased, and by Thomas Wigg junior, gentleman to one James Gregory of Leighton Buzzard, baker, and were purchased of him by Thomas Poynton 25 September 1694, and by feoffment 14 October 1699 were mortgaged to Margaret Cannon, widow, and bequeathed to Mary Moulder by last will of Thomas Poynton dated 22 March 1702, of which will Mary Moulder and Richard Collyer were executors. On 13 October 1707 the mortgage interest was assigned to Richard Collyer subject to equity of redemption of Mary Moulder and Samuel Moulder her husband. 14 July 1710 the equity of redemption was assigned by Mary Moulder, widow to James Selby, serjeant at law, as a security, and by indenture 21 February 1711 conveyed to John West always excepting to i) a way and passage on the west side of the close for men, carts, carriages, horses etc. 12 feet wide for a distance of 43 feet from the end of the barn there next the dunghill hole to the North East corner of the Granary, to the upper end of the close and into Fryday Lane, which right of way is to be paled and mounded, and the ground kept in repair by iii) witnesses: Francis Leventhorp, Hannah Leventhorp, George Price
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