Reference
Z1265/1/1
Title
Attested copy deed of covenants to levy and declaration of uses of a fine
Date free text
18 April 1754
Production date
From: 1754 To: 1754
Scope and Content
Parties:
(i) Joseph Winwood of Saint Botolph, Aldgate [Middlesex], distiller and Susanna, his wife, lately called Susanna Gill, widow who was devisee for her life under the will of Thomas Margetts, late of Bedford, gentleman, deceased; Thomas Way of Cosmore, Ippollitts [Hertfordshire], gentleman, nephew and devisee in tail under the will of Thomas Margetts;
(ii) Thomas Taylor of Hitchin [Hertfordshire], gentleman
(iii) Richard Tristram of Hitchin, gentleman
(iv) John Midwinter of Hitchin, surgeon and apothecary and Dinah, his wife
Operative Part:
- to confer estate on Susanna Winwood for her life, remainder to Thomas Way, remainder to (iv) and to bar all estates in tail and in consideration of a marriage John Midwinter and Dinah, his wife (née Dinah Hobbs, niece of Thomas Way);
- (ii) paid 5/- each to Joseph Winwood, Susanna Winwood and Thomas Way;
- (i) released (a)-(e) to (ii)
Property:
(a) messuage in Bedford, Saint Peter de Merton formerly in the occupation of William Tippist;
(b) garden in Bedford, Saint Peter de Merton in occupation of Thomas Smith;
(c) close called Great Collet alias Collins Close containing 8 acres in Bedford, Saint Cuthbert in occupation of Robert Beverley, esquire;
(d) one other close of pasture in Bedford;
(e) remaining part of an old malting at W end of an orchard belonging to (a) with barley loft over it
Habendum:
- to (ii) to the use of (ii) for ever with the intent that he become perfect tenant in a common recovery
Copy examined 11 September 1819 by R H Gibbon and Edmund Reeve, clerks to Pearse and Son of Bedford, solicitors
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