Reference
R6/19/2/5
Title
Conveyance by Appointment
Date free text
28 September 1839
Production date
From: 1839 To: 1839
Scope and Content
Parties:
(i) James Smith, late of Eversholt, now of Bedford, currier;
(ii) Edward Burton of Hitchin [Hertfordshire], wine merchant;
(iii) Alfred Burton of Biggleswade, commercial clerk
Reciting:
- (i) was owner of the freehold property in Schedules 1 and 2 and entitled to the residue of property in Schedule 3 as well as the remainder of the leases of all leasehold property
Operative Part:
- (ii) and (iii) paid £1,600 to (i);
- (i) appointed freehold property in Schedules 1 and 2 to uses and trusts appointed by (ii) and (iii) and released them to (ii) and (iii) as tenants in common;
- (i) assigned property in Schedule 3 and leasehold property in Schedule 2 to (i) and (ii)
Schedule 1:
(a) messuage in Berry or Higher Berry End formerly in the occupation of John Gregory the elder and John Gregory the younger, now for the most part in occupation of William Gower and two tenements partly converted from and partly built into it by James Smith and in occupation of John Taylor and Richard Large and a new tenement adjoining in occupation of Thomas Major;
(b) messuage in Berry End near (a) and formerly in the occupation of Jacob Allen, then Mary Gregory, late Elizabeth Potts since converted by James Smith into two tenements in occupation of [blank] Sudbury and Joseph Beetle alias Beckel;
(c) close of pasture of 3 acres, 1 rood, 14 poles called Maddle Croft alias Marle Croft, once one of four closes near (a) comprising 17 acres since incorporated with two leasehold pightles containing 2 acres and 1½ acres and forming a pightle called Dovehouse Close of 6 acres, 3 roods, 14 poles;
(d) pightle of pasture adjoining (a) containing 2 roods, 22 poles;
(e) pightle of pasture adjoining (a) and called The Green of 1 rood, 26 poles;
(f) orchard or pasture near (a) containing 1 acre, 1 rood, 35 poles exclusive of piece of ground, once a lane or common which had been added from the 2nd Schedule;
(d)-(f) forming one piece of land of 2 acres, 2 roods;
(g) Barn Close of 5 acres, 2 roods, 30 poles exclusive of a small part of Lower Hays Gate Close and Walls Green in the 2nd Schedule now laid to Barn Close which had previously been two closes called Great Barns Close and Little Barns Close and forming part of the 17 acres close and noted under (c)
(a) and (c)-(g) all formerly in the occupation of James Potts, late Samuel Harris now William Gower
Schedule 2:
(h) allotment of land at Higher Berry End consisting of two old inclosures called Upper Hays Gate and Lower Hays Gate formerly belonging to the Duke of Bedford and another old close called Walls Green which belonged to the trustees of the Town Estates and piece of ground formerly used as a lane altogether comprising 7 acres, 3 roods, 18 poles bounded: part E by Ridgmont Road; parts NW, E and N by old inclosure late of Dame Elizabeth Monoux; rest of sides by land in 1st Schedule;
(i) allotment of land at Higher Berry End comprising old inclosure called Woodcroft which belonged to John Gregory the grandson containing 4 acres, 3 roods, 25 poles exclusive of right of way for owners along Park Wall of Duke of Bedford bounded: NW and SW by old inclosures of Duke of Bedford; SE by old inclosure called Little Field; SE and NE by (g);
(h)-(i) formerly in the occupation of James Potts, late Samuel Harris, now William Gower
Schedule 3
(j) ground formerly described as a pightle in Berry End of 2 acres abutting: SE on common highway; SW on close formerly of Thomas Hillersdon afterwards Brewster and in possession of William Pratt called Little Field; on NE Maddle Croft Lane;
(k) ground formerly described as pightle of pasture of 1½ acres in Berry End abutting: N on Walls Green and on which a dovehouse was erected which remained standing until taken down by James Smith;
(a)-(b) some time since laid together and then incorporated with a freehold close called Maddle Croft of Marle Croft and now called Dovehouse Close
Witnesses:
- George Austin of Shefford, solicitor;
- Joseph Martin of Bedford, brazier
Level of description
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