Reference
X472/32
Title
Lease and Release
Date free text
2 Dec 1829
Production date
From: 1760 To: 1829
Scope and Content
i) Nathaniel Cartwright, Dunstable, gentleman
ii) Elizabeth Pratt, Totternhoe, widow
Thomas Pratt, Thorn, Houghton Regis, farmer
William Pratt, Eaton Bray, farmer
iii) Reverend William Bruton Wroth, Edlesborough, Buckinghamshire, clerk
iv) Reverend William Shepherd, Cheddington, Buckinghamshire, clerk
reciting demise or mortgage of 20 May 1760
a) John Gladman, Studham, Hertfordshire, yeoman
b) Thomas Munn, Markyate Street, Caddington, Hertfordshire, glover
… messuage where Thomas Hensman formerly dwelt, then John Horn and William Long, and then James Paddon, in Totternhoe
… 45 acres land in common fields of Totternhoe and Eaton Bray once in occupations of Barnard Horne, George Herbert and said John Horne, then James Paddon
term - 500 years
to be void if £51..5s is paid on 20 November 1760
said sum has long since been paid off
reciting assignment of 23 January 1765
1) John Field, Dunstable, victualler
2) John Gladman
3) John Miller, Dunstable, esquire
4) Thomas Vaux, Dunstable, esquire
… above property became vested in 4) for remainder of said term of 500 years in trust for 3)
Thomas Vaux died in 1798. By his will John Miller was appointed sole executor but he had died in the lifetime of the testator. Letters of administration, with will annexed, granted by Prerogative Court of Canterbury to Hannah Finch Miller, spinster, who died in June 1803 intestate. Letters of administration of estate of said Thomas Vaux were granted to N Cartwright by Prerogative Court of Canterbury on 20 December 1828 limited to said term of 500 years, whereby said term is vested in N Cartwright in trust for ii)
reciting lease and release of 10 and 11 March 1800 [X472/10]
reciting will of Thomas Pratt [X472//11]
property is to be conveyed to iii) by lease and release of even date
now in consideration of £---
i) at request of ii) and at nomination of iii) transfers to [iv)]
… said messuage etc. in Totternhoe
… 4 roods arable at the Backside in Totternhoe
(except the residue of said 45 acres)
for residue of said term of 500 years in trust for iii)
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