• Reference
    Z442/102
  • Title
    1) Richard Hitchin, Hitchin, gentleman 2) William Sheppard, Watton at Stone, Hertfordshire, gentleman 3) The Reverend Edward Hammond, rector of Watton at Stone, and Margaret his wife 4) Thomas Hill, London, merchant Conveyance to 3) and Assignment of remainder of mortgage term in trust to 4) in consideration of £625..12s to Richard Hitchin and £374..8s to William Sheppard, making in all £1000
  • Date free text
    16 Jan 1748
  • Production date
    From: 1748 To: 1748
  • Scope and Content
    Reciting Mortgage by 2) to Sir Henry Penrice of Offley, knight(demise for 500 years) to secure £500, 4 July 1734 ... messuage or tenement or farm in Pulloxhill late in occupation of Abraham Stevens then Henry Stapleton now Henry Bishop, and all houses, outhouses, dovehouses etc., brans, stables, yards, gardens and orchards ... pightle of pasture near or adjoining messuage containing 2 acres abutting N. on land then late of Master Vincent ... the Farm Close, pasture, 4 acres, highway from Pulloxhill towards Greenfield on E., and abutting on said messuage N. ... 4 closes of pasture containing by estimate 22 acres called North Meadhill, Little North Meadhill, Upper North Meadhill, Lower North Meadhill ... 6 acres arable ... 2 acres in Great Northfield abutting on land then late of Thomas Beamont S. and N. ... 2 acres in Newfield abutting on land then late of Edward Penny and on highway from Pulloxhill to Flitton E. ... 2 acres in Little Northfield ... 1½ acres abutting on lands then or late of Nicholas Crouch E. ... ½ acre abutting on land then or late of Thomas Beamont E. and John Pepiat W. ... tithes of corn, hay, grass, wood Reciting further charge £100, 2 Sep 1736 Reciting indenture being Assignment of Mortgage interest by Sir Henry Penrice to Richard Hitchin 4 August 1747 and that capital and interest not paid so that interest of Richard Hitchin in premises became absolute, but that Edward Hammond has contracted with William Sheppard for absolute purchase of the premises.
  • Level of description
    item