Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    X95/411/172
  • Title
    Stevenage; Mortgage
  • Date free text
    13 Jan 1848
  • Production date
    From: 1818 To: 1851
  • Scope and Content
    i) Thomas Stapleton, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, blacksmith, and wife Lucy ii) John Smyth, Stevenage, gentleman consideration - £119 i) demises to ii) ... cottage at North end of town of Stevenage, late in occupation William Sutton and now William Colley ... yard now converted into a garden adjoining said cottage, which were conveyed to i) by lease and release of 25, 26 September 1837 ... site at North end of town of Stevenage whereon formerly stood a blacksmith's shop and then as a place of worship for Protestant Dissenters and whereon also formerly stood 14ft of a certain barn adjoining said building at West end thereof but which said shop and barn were destroyed by fire and on which i) has erected a blacksmith's shop. Said piece of ground was conveyed to i) by lease and release of 2, 3 July 1818 term - 500 years interest - 5% per annum i) also agrees to surrender into hands of Lord of Manor of Stevenage ... piece of ground, formerly part of waste of said manor at Stanmore Green, being triangular (8 perches) North: --- Boyd, esquire West: Town Ditch Well East: almshouses on which a messuage and 4 cottages were sometime since erected and built, now in occupations John Smith, William Sell, John Knight and 2 others, to which premises said Lucy Stapleton was admitted tenant at court on 6 April 1831 under Will of her father, John Titmuss, deceased signature of Thomas Stapleton and mark of Lucy Stapleton 13 Jan 1848 endorsed receipt witnesses: G W Fitzjohn, solicitor, Stevenage attached - promise to pay by Thomas Stapleton of a further £20 and 5% interest to John Smyth, also secured on above property 1 Sep 1851
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