Reference
Z1265/8/4
Title
Conveyance
Date free text
18 January 1868
Production date
From: 1860 To: 1868
Scope and Content
Parties:
(i) Thomas Hine of Baldock, draper and grocer;
(ii) Thomas Bunker of Houghton Conquest, baker;
(iii) Samuel Francis of Houghton Conquest, farmer;
(iv) William Small of Bedford, gentleman
Reciting:
- Z1265/8/3 and endorsement;
- (ii) repaid the principal and all interest to (i) on 30 December 1867
Operative Part:
- (i), by direction of (ii), conveyed (a)-(e) to (iii);
- (ii) confirmed (a)-(e) to (iii) for £700
Property:
(a) messuage in Houghton Conquest erected by John Armstrong on ground in front of (b);
(b) messuage in Houghton Conquest, now used as a bakehouse formerly in the occupation of William Young, then Henry Seabrook and subsequently made into a workhouse;
(c) 1 acre, 3 roods, 27 poles of ground adjoining (b) called Workhouse Close in occupation of Thomas Clark lying between ground formerly of Thomas Wild, then Thomas Potter Macqueen, now Lord John Thynne [later 4th Marquess of Bath] W and ground formerly of John Risby then Thomas Potter Macqueen now Lord John Thynne E, ground formerly of Thomas Wild, then Thomas Potter Macqueen now Lord John Thynne N and common street S
(d) four cottages newly built by (ii) on part of (c);
(e) two cottages in Houghton Conquest n occupation of Richard Whiteman and Thomas Brightman and built by John Armstrong in front of a cottage in occupation of Samuel Cook, then John Dyer situate between the former workhouse in occupation of Thomas Bunker W and cottage formerly of John Constable now of Edmund Day E and abutting S on highway
Habendum:
- to the use of deeds of (iii), to the use of (iii) for life, to the use of (iv) during the life of (iii) in trust for (iii), to the use of (iii) for ever
Witnesses:
- Edward Smith, clerk to Thomas Veasey of Baldock, solicitor;
- W M Hobden, clerk to Turnley, Sharman and Smail of Bedford, solicitor
Level of description
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