Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    SA820
  • Title
    Deed of Partition; In performance of agreement
  • Date free text
    23 Mar 1769
  • Production date
    From: 1724 To: 1769
  • Scope and Content
    i) Reverend Lewis Monoux of Sandy ii) Reverend Philip Monoux of Sandy; George Monoux, gentleman; Ann and Nary Monoux, spinsters (all of Sandy, all children of i) by wife Mary, deceased. All of age) (recital of Marriage Articles of 31 Jan 1733 between (a) Lewis Monoux. (b) Mary Edwards of Bedford, spinster, (c) Denis Farrer, esquire of Cold Brayfield, Buckinghamshire; William Edwards of Bedford, gentleman; Humphrey Monoux, esquire, of Sandy. Marriage of a) and b). Recital in part of will of William Edwards, b)'s father, of 13 April 1724 ... to daughter Mary £1,000 from farm in Houghton Conquest in occupation Robert Baker when 21 or married. Also £200 from Bedford House 6 months after wife's decease. Recital of Bond of 20 April 1733 - William Ridge, citizen and clothworker of London bound to Mary Edwards in £4,300 - void on payment of £2,150 on 20 October 1733. Mary Edwards also possessed of personal estate of £350 in East India securities. This is to provide jointure. a) and b) covenanted that above money to be settled on trusts and b) to assign to c) legacies, money due on bond etc. and other personal estate. a) covenanted with c) 30 days after marriage to pay to them £1,300 to add to above and make it up to £5,000 but interest on Mary Edward's money to be paid to her separately. Trustees to invest during lives of a) and b) all or part and from interest pay b) £30 per annum for her sole use, rest to a) for lives of a) and b), then all to b) for life, then heirs etc.. Recital of SA814. Recital of Assignment and Mortgage of 13, 14 June 1737 (Lease and Release) between a) Charles Fletcher, b) William Tompkins and wife Mary, c) Lewis Monoux. £720 (due to a)) c) to a). £480 c) to b), - both of £5,000 of articles of agreement. a) and b) to c) ... lands of SA814. Not redeemed by b). Recital of Covenant to levy a Fine (Lease and Release) of 19, 20 July 1734 between (a) Francis Wingfield of Potton, gentleman and wife Rececca, (b) Lewis Monoux and wife Mary, c) Dennis Farrer, esquire of Cold Brayfield, Buckinghamshire and Fine levied by (a). £1,400 c) to a) (part of £5,000 of articles). a) to c) ... Bulmers Farm House and appurtenances in Great Staughton, Huntingdonshire, in occupation John Hopkins; 5 acres adjoining in occupation John Spencer, then John Hopkins; Holcombes closes (2 - 20¼ acres); Dovehouse Close (4 acres); 10 acres of dispersed meadow belonging; 110 acres of meadow etc. dispersed in Great Staughton in occupation Spencer then Hopkins. On trusts but for uses of articles. Recital of Conveyance of 20 July 1734 between (a) William Lightfoot, esquire, b) Francis Wingfield, c) Dennis Farrer, esquire [reciting Mortgage in Fee (Lease and Release) of 18, 19 December 1724 from John Spencer, gentleman of Bulmers Farm House etc. to Robert Chester and Reverend Peter Chester, D.D. £600. Mortgage in Fee of 27, 28 March 1727 between (a) R and P Chester, (b) John Spencer, (c) William Paine. a) to c)... Bulmers Farm. £1,000. Covenant to levy a Fine of 13 March 1727/8 between (a) John Spencer and wife Arabella, (b) William Paine, (c) Nicholas Abthorpe, gentleman. a) to c) to use of b). Conveyance of 29, 30 November 1727 John Spencer and wife of above property to Francis Wingfield. Mortgage in Fee of 26, 27 October 1733 (a) William Paine, (b) F Wingfield, (c) William Lightfoot, a) and b) to c) £1,047..10s. £1.034..12s..6d due to William Lightfoot]. £1.034..12s..6d. c) to a). a) and b) to c) ... above property on trusts. Recital of Conveyance and Covenant to Levy a Fine of 17, 18 November 1737 (a) John Sellis, malster and wife Edith, (b) Lewis Monoux and wife Mary, (c) Farrer, Edwards, Hawes and Monoux. £1,000 c) to a) (part of £5,000 of articles). a) to c) ... messuage in Sandy and Cooper cottage and the Holme cottage. 92½ acres in fields of Sandy. 42 acres of meadow in Sandy. 1 acre of meadow in Northill in Widow Hay Meadow. To c) to uses of Marriage Articles. Recital i) laid out £1,200 of £5,000 in purchase of New South Sea annuities - transferred to names of c). Reverend Megison Newton and John Edwards, esquire, executors of will of Dorothy Edwards, widow and sole executrix of William Edwards, survivor of trustees (= c)). South Sea stock therefore now vested in Newton and John Edwards, esquire. i) has £200 remainder of £5,000 in hand. Recital Mary Monoux died 18 April 1767 leaving ii) estates bought with £5,000. £1,200 due on mortgage and £1,200 New South Sea annuities and £200 in hands of i), after his decease to be shared between ii) After decease of i) Reverend P Monoux to have estate in Sandy and Northill in lieu of his share of £5,000. George Monoux to have estate in Great Staughton, Huntingdonshire. £1,200 Mortgage, £1,200 New South Sea stock, £200 in hand to be equally divided between Ann and Mary Monoux. witnessed: Jeremy Fish Palmer, Edmund Shrimpston, John Mullen, William Moore, Michael Bray
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