Reference
Z1265/3/1
Title
Release
Date free text
13 May 1824
Production date
From: 1824 To: 1824
Scope and Content
Parties:
(i) William Webb of Haselour [Staffordshire], farmer (eldest brother and heir-at-law of Charles Webb, late of Bedford, woolstapler, deceased) and Mary, his wife;
(ii) Sir William Long of Bedford;
(iii) Thomas Chandless of Grays Inn, barrister-at-law;
(iv) John Rawlins of Bedford, wine merchant
Reciting:
- (ii) contracted with (i) to purchase (a) for £1,000;
- (iv) contracted with (ii) to purchase part of (a) for £400 - being of messuage, formerly a room wherein a malt cistern stood and the chambers over it on E side of (a) together with room over gateway as shown on included plan - conveyed on 10 and 11 May 1824 by (i) with (iv) paying £400 to him by direction of (ii)
Operative Part:
- (i) released (a) to (ii) for £600
Property [as shown on included plan]:
(a) piece of ground in Bedford, Saint Paul fronting S on Stonehouse Lane and measuring 24 feet 6 inches E-W on S side and abutting part E on messuage and stable conveyed to (iv);
(b) warehouse formerly erected by Charles Webb on the site of a kilnhouse or malthouse and situate on N extremity of (a) and used by Charles Webb as a wool warehouse
Covenant
- by (i) to levy a fine sur cognizance de droit come ceo etc.
Habendum:
- to (ii) for his life, to (iv) during the life of (ii), in trust for (ii)
Witnesses:
- Frederick Bond of Lichfield [Staffordshire], attorney;
- Edward Bond of Lichfield, attorney;
- John Barnard;
- Thomas Barnard
Indorsed with lease and release of 29 and 30 May 1835 in which (1) Sir William Long conveyed to (2) John Crichton Stuart, 2nd Marquis of Bute, Francis Russell, Baron Howland [later 7th Duke of Bedford], George Witt, Frederic Polhill, Samuel Crawley, Thomas Charles Higgins, Thomas Barnard, John Harris, Thomas Abbott Green, Thomas John Green, John Green, Isaac Elger and Edward Isaac Lockwood, trustees of Bedford Rooms Company part of (a), the warehouse having been pulled down and now site of stables in occupation of George Osborn, Coleman or his undertenant Thody and a privy standing on W side, also comprising part of the yard purchased by Sir William Long from William Webb and bounded: N by estate of the Society of Methodists; E by the malting and other premises of John Rawlins; S by other hereditaments of Sir William Long purchased from William Webb; part W by hereditaments of Mrs Smith and part W by hereditaments lately purchased by Bedford Rooms Company from Samuel Lovell; also right of way from sunrise to sunset when Bedford savings bank would be erected on (a) through the yard and gateway of Sir William Long for transaction of business; with covenant for production of deeds by Sir William Long
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