Reference
X307/9-10
Title
Pre-marriage settlement and conveyance
Date free text
20, 21 Sep 1715
Production date
From: 1715 To: 1715
Scope and Content
i) George Lockwood, Ampthill, barber, second son of William Lockwood, deceased, late of Bedford, maltster
ii) William Fowkes, Ampthill, barber
Joseph Barber junior, Ampthill, woollen draper
iii) Sarah Fowkes, Ampthill, spinster, a daughter of William Fowkes
Settlememt previous to marriage between i) and iii) being Conveyance (lease and release) by i) to ii) to uses of:
… messuage in Green End, Biddenham now in occupation of John Litewood
… close, 1 acre, on north side; spinney adjoining the close, Gold Lane, East, and highway from Biddenham to Bromham, West; 9 acres as in schedule annexed to feoffment 22 March 14 Charles I [X307/6]
… messuage or tenement and malthouse in Bedford St Paul on East side of Angell Street, formerly Sheeps Chipping, once in occupation of Richard Mightnall, now of Thomas Battison, bounded North by tenement called the Angell and South by ground formerly of Thomas Hawes, gentleman, late in occupation of Anne Paley and the tenement late in occupation of Elizabeth Burnewood
to use of i) until marriage, then to use of i) for life, then to use of iii) for life for her jointure, then to use of heirs of the body of Sarah by George Lockwood, in default to use of heirs of George and Sarah for ever
Signed: all parties
Witnesses: Elizabeth Gundery, Charles Dymoke
Level of description
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