• Reference
    X163/73
  • Title
    Mortgage. £60 i) William Goddard and wife Mary ii) Thomas Franks of Eaton Socon, carpenter
  • Date free text
    7 Apr 1740
  • Production date
    From: 1740 To: 1740
  • Scope and Content
    Same property as in X163/71, viz …messuage and close of pasture, 1 acre; 3 acres 3 roods arable land; 1½ acre meadow now in occupation of William Goddard, late of Little Staughton, purchased by him of William Reynolds and wife Mary, Susannah King, spinster, Henry Clark and wife Mary, Frances King by Indenture 8 March 1738 and devised to William Goddard Endorsed: declared by Edward Franks of Eaton Socon, carpenter that £40, part of the £60 is secured to him on the mortgage of William Goddard and wife Mary 17 November 1738 Declared by Thomas Franks that he received £60 from Edward Franks, brother "and that same consideration money is proper money of said Edward Franks and that said mortgaged premises doth of right belong unto the said Edward Franks and that said security was taken in name of me, the said Thomas Franks in trust only for the sole use and purpose of him the said Edward Franks his heirs etc." Witnesses: C Billett junior, Francis Downman
  • Level of description
    item