Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    X732/3/1-2
  • Title
    Indentures of Lease and release to make a tenant to the precipe to break an entail on the estate released, to make it a security for £2,200 for a term of 500 years and with interest at 5%, and to settle the remainder and inheritance of the same after the term. 1 and 2 skins respectively
  • Date free text
    3, 4 Jul 1701
  • Production date
    From: 1701 To: 1701
  • Scope and Content
    i) Sir James Astry of Woodend in the parish of Harlington, knight James Astry of the same, esquire (son and heir apparent of Sir James Astry ii) Charles Cutts of the parish of St Paul, Covent Garden, (Middlesex), haberdasher iii) John Carter of Furnivalls Inn, London, gentleman Recitals: none Present Deed: Conveyance, by Lease and Release, from i) to iii) (in consideration of £2,200 paid to i) by ii), for the barring and destroying of all estates tail and remainders of and upon the estate to be released and making the same a security to ii), his executors etc., for £2,200 with interest for a term of 500 years and for the settling and establishing the remainder and inheritance of the premises after the said term to such uses and upon such trusts etc., as are expressed in an Indenture of even date (see X732/4), of: a) manor of Wadlow as in X732/1 a) b) capital messuage in Wood End as in X732/1 b): described now as wherein Sir James Astry, of i), does or lately did inhabit or dwell c) close or orchard called Dovehouse Close (4 acres) in the parish of Harlington, now or late in the possession of Sir James Astry d) close or inclosed parcel of land (7 acres), now or heretofore called Little Jacobs Close (see X732/1 d)), lying near b) and now or late in the occupation of Sir James Astry e) messuage or farmhouse in Woodend, now or late in the occupation of William Langford f) close or inclosed parcel etc. (4 acres) called the Hook(e)s in Woodend (see X732/1 f)), now or late also in the possession of William Langford g) 3 closes of pasture adjoining to e) and containing 6 acres h) close of pasture in Harlington called Cheyne(y)s close (6 acres) j) 3 closes called Pond Wadlows (20 acres) in the parishes of Harlington and Toddington, all now or late in the possession of William Langford k) messuage or farmhouse in Woodend, now or late in the occupation of William Godfrey l) close of pasture called Coppy Close (40 acres); see X732/1 j) m) 2 closes adjoining to l), now or late in the occupation of William Godfrey [6 acres in recital in X732/22] n) parcel of meadow abutting on Cranfield Bridge in Harlington o) close or inclosed pasture ground in Harlington called Geofferies (or 'Jeoffreys') containing 4 acres, now or late in the occupation of William 'Godferies' (sic: Godfrey) p) messuage or farmhouse in Harlington, now or late in the occupation of John Odell, bounded by the Green there and Tingrith Lane q) close or pightle of pasture (16 acres) adjoining to p) r) little close at the bottom of q) containing ½ acre s) close called Fields Grove with the close adjoining thereunto and butting upon Westoning Woodend Field containing together 20 acres in the parishes of Harlington and Westoning, all now or late in the occupation of John Odell t) messuage or farmhouse and pightle adjoining thereunto in Harlington wherein William Martin now dwells u) cottage or tenement in Westoning where George Bunker now dwells with the orchard adjoining thereunto v) messuage or farmhouse in Westoning, now or late in the occupation of William Cowley w) 2 closes of pasture (4 acres) adjoining to or lying near v) x) close of pasture ground (6 acres) in Westoning called Harpers (see X732/1 e)), now or late also in occupation of William Cowley y) 2 cottages adjoining to the tithe barn in Westoning, now or late in the several occupations of John Faldo and Richard Burgis z) cottage or tenement at Westoning Townsend, now or late in the occupation of John Faldo aa) cottage or tenement in Westoning now or late in the occupation of Thomas Brittaine, weaver bb) arable lands in Harlington containing 60 acres with the house therewith let known by the name of Frogghall, now or late in the possession of William Robinson cc) inclosed grounds in Toddington (20 acres), now or late in the occupation of George Shaw dd) cottage or tenement with the close adjoining thereto (4 acres) lying in Gostle End, else Goslend / Gossle End, Harlington, now or late in the occupation of George Nicholls ee) rectory or parsonage impropriate of Westoning (see X732/1 m)) and all tithes and tenths of all corn, grain, wood and hay and all other great tithes, both personal, predial and mixed arising, growing and increasing out of the same Habendum: to iii) and his heirs to the use of iii) in fee to the intent and purpose to make him perfect tenant of the freehold to the end that one or more common recoveries may be suffered of all the above premises (procedural covenant follows) which recovery(-ies), it is declared, shall be and enure to and for the use of ii) for 500 years from the date of these presents sans impeachment of waste at peppercorn rent subject to a proviso for payment of £2,310 to ii) by i), (to be paid as follows; £55 on 4 January 1702 at the dwelling house of ii) in the parish of St Paul, and £2,255 on 4 July 1702) after which payment the term shall cease and determine, remainder to and for the uses, intents, trusts and purposes etc. as are expressed, limited and declared in an Indenture Tripartite of even date (see X732/4) NB. A counterpart of X732/3/2 is to be found catalogued as X702/1 (part of Accession No.5982 (B.R.A.2245)). The indents of the two deeds matching up. It includes a memorandum, signed by ii) that the interest of the £2,200 'begins at the 22th of July 1701'; a memorandum acknowledging receipt of the principal, as X733/3/2 (except it does not specify constituent sums nor mention the mortgage of the rectory (ee)), as does the receipt on the dorse of X732/3/2, and is neither signed nor witnessed); and a memorandum, dated 12 December 1717, that there remains due on the mortgage £2,000, the remainder of the principal and all interest to this day being paid off and cleared. It is inscribed 'Sir James Astry's Recovery deed Mortgage from Sir James Astry and his son James to Charles Cutts…' Dorse: sealed and delivered by all the parties in the presence of F Brace (senior) and F Brace junior; memorandum by i) acknowledging receipt of ii) of £1,750 which with £450 lent unto him upon a mortgage of ee) makes in full the consideration of £2,200, witnessed by F Brace and Peter Evans, clerk to Mr Parratt; inscribed '6' (Lease) and '7' (Release).
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