• Reference
    SA321
  • Title
    Deed to lead the uses of a Fine and Recovery
  • Date free text
    5 Feb 1778
  • Production date
    From: 1778 To: 1778
  • Scope and Content
    i) Levi Lavender of Ridge, Hertfordshire, yeoman and wife Jane, Evan Phillips of Foster Lane, London, tallow chandler and wife Elizabeth ii) Michael Hodgson of the Inner Temple, gentleman iii) John Perrot, esquire of the Inner Temple (Recital of Marriage Settlement of 13, 14 July 1727 between i) William Reynolds; ii) Ann Costin; iii) Thomas Costin and Thomas Stokes [?Reynolds] of Bedford, ropemaker. i) to iii) ... messuage and appurtenances in Wroxhill, Marston Moretaine once in occupation Michael Woodward and 5 acres close adjoining (West: Lye Mead, South: pasture of Thomas Pearse; gentleman, North: the highway) ... Little Lye Mead in Marston (1 acre); ... ¼ acre in common field of Marston Moretaine at upper end of Reynolds Close. ... 2 acres in Wroxhill (West: Churchbank). All above in occupation John Gibbs and bought by i) of Michael Woodward of Cranfield, yeoman. ... Grove (1 acre) in Cranfield in occupation of i) and bought by him of Michael Woodward. ... cottage of i)'s in St John Street, St Mary's Bedford (East: Dovehouse Close). bought by i) from his brother Thomas Reynolds, son and heir and devisee of William Reynolds, father, deceased. ... Close of pasture (2 acres) in parish of St Paul, Bedford in occupation John Austin, then Joseph Grey (South: highway near Fryars Wall, West: highway to Clapham). ... Ley of meadow (1 acre) in Fenlake meadow, Cardington in occupation of i) and bought by him of Felix Bulstrode of Shefford, gentleman. All to use of i) for life then ii) for life and heirs etc. Recital of SA320. Jane Lavender and Elizabeth Phillips were the only issue of this marriage) Agreement of i) with ii) to levy a fine ... lands as in above recital. Common recovery to be perfected against ii) at cost of i). Property of 1st recital to use of Evan Philips and heirs for ever. Property of SA320 to use of Levi Lavender and heirs for ever Occupiers mentioned: Thomas Baskerfield, Widow Burgess, Sarah Haseldine; Master of the Hospital of St John the Baptist, Thomas Hogden, mason, Widow Divett, Thomas Divett, tailor, John Hawnes, gentleman witnessed: Palmer Hurst, clerk to Messrs Perrott and Hodgson, Inner Temple; Percival Wilkinson
  • Level of description
    item