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SA454
Title
Deed of Appointment and Conveyance
Date free text
22 May 1846
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From: 1827 To: 1846
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i) Thomas Potter Macqueen, esquire of Caen, Normandy ii) John Potter Macqueen, esquire, eldest son of i) iii) Dame Hester Astley iv) John Phillips Beavan v) Jacob Baron Hastings of Melton Constable, Norfolk John Phillips Beavan George Dalziel of Edinburgh, writer to the Signet (Recital of SA434, 15 June 1835 i) admitted tenant at Manor Court of Stotfold ... 4 acres meadow (Heriotable); 1½ acres (Heriotable); in Upper field Crofts formerly Gerrard Spencers; 1 messuage with 2 pightles and 3 acres called Skinners; 3¾ acres pasture; 19½ acres; ¼ acre called Old Rood; 1 acre. Soon after SA434 i) married Ann Astley daughter of iii). Issue of marriage living: ii), Henry Archibald Macqueen; Caroline Editha Macqueen; Flora Georgiana Macqueen and Ann Burgess Macqueen. ii) became 21 on 14 December 1843. Recital of encumbrances on i)'s estate:- SA437, SA446-447 and recital of SA449-450. Recital of SA448 and SA452. Recital of Endorsement on SA450, £1,400 due on this; more than £14,000 due to iii). i) indebted to iv) in £15,000 - iv) holds several mortgages in security for part of this (dated 11, 12 November 1833, 28, 29 April 1836; 29 February 1836 (Articles of Agreement), 12 March 1840) on certain property of i) "situate in the Colony of New South Wales or Australia". Recital of disentailment of i)' s Bedfordshire estate by deed of 21 May 1846. Copyhold land to be surrendered to v). Estate to be sold to pay mortgages) i) and ii) limit and appoint freehold Bedfordshire estate to use of v) on trust to sell ... Chapel End Farm (217 acres 3 roods 38 perches) in occupation William Hawkes then Messrs Newman and Quenby (rent £167) [Homestead, Home Close, Broad Close, Part of Cophall field, Peaks field, Spinney Wood, Home Close Meadow, Burnt Ground, Bridge Piece, Coopers Piece, Cobhall Hill, Watery Butts, Butter Milk Hill, Little Meadow and field adjoining, Great Meadow] ... Hill Farm (214 acres 3 roods 26 perches) in occupation Clement Francis, then Edmund Day (rent £182..2s..6d) [Homestead, Little Meadow, Great Mill field, Cranketts field, Tompkins field, Small Platt, Great Close, Long Close, Cockstead, Plough Close, Dove House Close, Great field, Lower Most Spinney, Langleys piece] ... Church Farm (299 acres) in occupation George Smith, then George Hine (rent £340) [Homestead, Home Close, Cranketts Meadow, Smith's Close, Cranketts field, Old Meadow, Further field, Meadow field, First field, Seed Close, Seed field; Back citer, The Grove, Front Close, Cars Close, Ash field] ... Great Thickthorn Farm (289 acres 3 roods 33 perches) in occupation John Shepherd Carnfield (rent £200) [Homestead, Home Close, Hays field, Long Breach, Short Breach, Poney Hill, Top Mill piece, Meadow, Spinney field, Mile field etc.] ... Little Thickthorn Farm (105 acres 1 rood 1 perch) in occupation William King, then Charles Danby (rent £60) [Homestead, Spinney Close, Home Close, Plantation, Jay Croft, Wilderness] ... Dane field Farm (174 acres 3 roods 30 perches) in occupation John Armstrong (rent £91) [Homestead, Clay furlong, Dane field, Wood furlong etc.] ... Messuage and Brick Kiln and parcels (15 acres 3 roods 11 perches) in occupation Samuel Francis (rent £43) ... Grange Pightle and parcels (41 acres 3 roods 20 perches) in occupation James Dix (rent £35..16s) [Grange pightle, High field, Sheep Walk] ... Messuage and wheelwrights shop and 14 acres 2 roods 14 perches in occupation James Atterbury (rent £28..6s) ... Paddock (3 roods 38 perches) in occupation James Thomas, then Thomas Elmer ... Hayes fields (3 parcels) (21 acres 28 perches) in occupation James Juffs (rent £18..18s) ... 17 acres 3 roods 7 perches in occupation William Purwright (rent £17..2s) ... 5 cottages (12 tenements) and 1 acre 37 perches in occupation Thomas Elmer, Thomas Burrage, Samuel Bushby, John Kingham, Thomas Smart, William Ward, John Chambers, John Smith, Joseph Toylor, Thomas Hostler, George Bushby, and William Taylor (rents £27) ... Parcels from the waste - 1 rood 38 perches - in occupation John Seabrook, Joseph Redman, Samuel Gillatt, William Smith, Moses Fossey, William Burrage, James Goodman, William Gillatt, James Smith All in Houghton Conquest ... Radwell Farm in Radwell, Felmersham and Bletsoe (231 acres 12 perches) in occupation George Swannell (rent £430) [including Middle lands, Wrench Holme Meadow, Ozier beds, Cox's Close, Nursey Close, Berril Hill, Great Wetland, Little Wetland, Bletsoe Close] ... Wilstead Farm (95 acres 3 roods 36 perches) in occupation James Spring (rent £140) [including Lane Close, Round Close, White Croft] ... Stotfold Farm (406 acres) in occupation Bryan Gibbins (rent £400) [White Croft, Marsh Shott, Short Worboys, Duck Puddle, Hammerdine Crouch furlong, Merehill Shott, Shormer furlong, Dead Wife furlong, Long furlong, Hangman's furlong, Stocks furlong, High Bush field Shott, Upper Stocks, Breachmore furlong, Crow's Nest, Upper Balls Green, Howe's furlong, Oxmore Shott, Hither and Further Dean Shott, Long Malms, Wilberry Hills, Short Wilberry, Flaxland Shott, Springall Shott, Widow's Gore, Mead End Debden, Long Acre, Debden Shott, Norton Well Shott, Shade Hills, Long Gasedon, Balls Green Shott, Gravel Pit Shott, Harley Bush furlong, Baldock Hole, Brick Clamp Shott, Blackhall Shott, Berry Ditch Elders Shott, Foxhall Shott, Mill Path, Ansell Shott, Goose's Shott, White Post, Fen furlong, Hullocks Shott, Upper Shott, Burnsell Shott, Short Shott, Long Street Shott, Foxhall Street Shott] Schedule of judgements in Kings Bench and Common Pleas against i) 1827-1841
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