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i) Francis Green, Bedford, merchant
ii) William Long, Bedford, esquire
iii) Frederick William Foster, Wyke, Birstall, esquire
reciting that by bargain and sale of 8 October 1801
a) Charles Gibson, Quenmore Park, Lancashire, esquire
b) Dame Jane Musgrave, widow of Sir Philip Musgrave late of Hartley Castle, Westmorland, baronet, deceased
c) John Danvers, Hornsey, Middlesex
Samuel Turner, Great Ormond Street, Middlesex, esquire
d) Wriothesley Digby, Meredon, Warwickshire, esquire
e) Robert Sherbourne, Ravenhead, near Prescott, Lancashire, esquire and wife Sophia
f) Woolley Leigh John Spencer, Devonshire Street, Queens Square, Middlesex, esquire
g) Frances Spencer, Sutton, Lancashire, widow
h) Mary Cater, Sutton, Lancashire, spinster
j) said William Long
k) said Francis Green
- all messuages etc. hereinafter mentioned and other premises were conveyed to k) in trust for j) to be disposed of as he or they should direct
now in consideration of £5,000 paid by iii) to ii)
i) at request of ii) release to iii)
- farmhouse called Burrs Farm
- yard, gardens, barns etc. (1 acre 1 rood 28 perches)
- Home Close (pasture) divided into 2 parts (12 acres 17 perches)
- Long Close (pasture) (7 acres 25 perches)
- coppice wood or spinney adjoining Long Close (2 roods 36 perches)
- Colemans Close (arable) divided into 2 parts (12 acres 20 perches)
- Colemans Spinney (2 acres 1 rood 9 perches)
- Dentons Close (pasture) (5 acres 3 roods)
- cottage and garden situated in Dentons Close (35 perches)
- Hunts Holt (arable) (2 acres 1 rood 37 perches)
- The Eight Acres (arable) (6 acres 2 roods 9 perches)
- Poor Closes (3 acres 6 perches and 1 acre 29 perches)
- Little Closes (2 acres 3 roods 2 perches and 1 acre 3 roods 2 perches)
- Wickstead (close of pasture) (1 acre 3 roods 10 perches)
- Watts Hunt (close of pasture) (4 acres 3 roods 16 perches)
- Box End Close with coppice adjoining (3 acres 3 roods 32 perches)
- 5 small coppices of wood lying dispersed in the Open Boxes (3 acres 10 perches)
(total - 73 acres 1 rood 3 perches). Said lands etc. are occupied together with the farmhouse
- several pieces of common or open field land (117 acres 34 perches) in Kempston
--- 51 acres 24 perches in Box End Field
--- 24 acres 2 roods 21 perches in Ridgway field
--- 25 acres 1 rood 35 perches in field called the Open Boxes
--- 3 roods 34 perches in Box Meadow
all now situated in Kempston and are now in possession of John Burr as tenant
covenant to produce above mentioned bargain and sale and also deeds etc. as in schedule
Schedule
6 June 1694 between Samuel Cater and wife Ann, and son John, with Sir Thomas Middleton, Sir Stephen Laugham and Mary Middleton and also with Thomas Middleton
9 June 1749 Bargain and Sale between Beckford Kendall Cater, esquire, with John Kendall Cater, gentleman, with John Finch and with Benjamin Pouncey
Trinity term 22 and 23 George II.
Recovery between Benjamin Pouncey, with John Finch and with Beckford Kendall Cater and John Kendall Cater
21 March 1749 Deed - Beckford Kendall Cater with John Kendall Cater, with George Gibson and with John Finch
19 and 20 April 1750
Lease and release - Beckford Kendall Cater and John Kendall Cater, with Thomas Beckford and Thomas Widan, esquire, with Margaret Beaumont, spinster
24 and 25 March 1756
Lease and release - Mary Cater with John Cater, esquire
28 January 1796 Deed between Sophia, Frances and Mary Cater, with Charles Bicknell
Hilary term 36 George III
Fine between Charles Bicknell with Sophia, Frances and Mary Cater,
19 and 20 February 1796
Lease and release - the Reverend Oliph Leigh Spencer, clerk, with Frances Cater and with Thomas Beaumont and the Reverend Wooley Leigh Spencer, clerk
14 and 15 April 1796
Lease and release - Robert Sherborne, esquire, with the said Sophia Cater and with the said Thomas Beaumont and Wriothsley Digby, esquire
signatures of i) and ii)
endorsed: receipt
witnesses: John Whitehorn junior of Bedford
Theed Pearse, Bedford