Reference
Z1265/8/5
Title
Reconveyance
Date free text
2 November 1875
Production date
From: 1868 To: 1875
Scope and Content
Parties:
(i) Edward Handscomb of Ampthill, gentleman;
(ii) Samuel Francis of Houghton Conquest, farmer
Reciting:
- mortgage of 2 November 1868 between (i) and (ii) for £800
Operative Part: -
(ii) conveyed (a)-(f) to (ii) on repayment of £800
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 built by (ii) on part of (c);
(e) ten cottages erected by (ii) on part of (c);
(f) 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
Witness:
- Charles Riddle of Ampthill, stamp distributor
Level of description
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