Z491/17

Release. 1) Daniel Chapman of Hitchin, Hertfordshire, gentleman, Joseph Margetts Pierson of same, gentleman (vendors) 2) John Croft late of Cambridge but now of Biggleswade, gentleman

1811-1818

From: 1811 To: 1818

2 undivided third parts in:- ai) cottage or tenement and curtilage, now divided into 2 tenements in Shortmead Street, Biggleswade, abutting E. Shortmead Street (now in tenure or occupation of John Elson and his undertenants) aii) cottage or tenement in Shortmead Street, standing on N. of ai), abutting E. Shortmead Street (in several tenures of Giles Smith and William Farrington) b) Coal yard with the wharfs, warehouses, counting houses, stables, coke ovens and other buildings adjoining cottage above (heretofore close of pasture, now in occupation of John Croft) c) cottage or tenement, now and for sometime past divided into 2 on north side of the coal yard and adjoining last described cottage on west (now in occupation of Henry Bennington and Samuel Brown) d) messuage, cottage or tenement, now divided into 2 tenements with the homestall etc. in Shortmead Street, Biggleswade (late in occupations of Edward Farr, Joseph Wells and Mary Cartwright or their undertenants and now of Joseph Wells and John Crouch) e) messuages, cottages or tenements with the close of pasture adjoining (1 acre) in Biggleswade abutting W. Shortmead Street (late in several tenures or occupations of William Carter, John Mole, John Sheffield and Thomas Chamberlain, widow Tingey and William Pepper and now of Richard Taylor, John Mole and Richard Currie) (all late the estate of John Collison) f) Messuage or tenement adjoining to last described cottages and lately erected and built on some part of e) above(now in tenure or occupation of William Wright and Reverend G Mossop, his undertenant) And all other messuages etc. (late copyhold enfranchised by lease and release) 1) Sir Francis Willes, knight, Lord of Manor 2) Daniel Chapman (enfranchised) 2 and 3 Dec 1811 Consideration £1183..6s..8d 20 May 1814 Extracted by Francis Pett and R Dinsey, clerks to Messrs Eade and Hawkins of Hitchin, Hertfordshire 25 May 1818

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Chapman, Daniel,
Pierson, Joseph Margetts,
Croft, John,
Elson, John,
Smith, Giles,
Farrington, William,
Bennington, Henry,
Brown, Samuel,
Farr, Edward,
Wells, Joseph,
Cartwright, Mary,
Crouch, John,
Carter, William,
Mole, John,
Sheffield, John,
Chamberlain, Thomas,
Tingey,
Pepper, William,
Taylor, Richard,
Currie, Richard,
Collison, John,
Wright, William,
Mossop, George,
Willes, Francis,
Pett, Francis,
Dinsey, R,
Eade and Hawkins

legal papers, DEEDS, BIGGLESWADE, Biggleswade Shortmead Street