Reference
AN25/20
Title
Release
Date free text
11 October 1826
Production date
From: 1826 To: 1826
Scope and Content
Parties:
(i) John Bonus Child of the Stock Exchange, London, stockbroker; John Day of Bedford, tanner; Thomas Bloodworth of Kimbolton [Huntingdonshire], land surveyor (assignees of the estate of George James Gorham, late of Saint Neots, banker and bankrupt);
(ii) George James Gorham;
(iii) Rev William Alington of Twywell [Northamptonshire], clerk;
(iv) Nevile Day of Saint Neots, gentleman
Reciting:
- Commission of Bankruptcy of 26 December 1825 awarded against (ii), Francis Rix and William Inkersalt, all of Saint Neots, bankers and co-partners, dealers and chapmen who were declared bankrupt, (i) being chosen assignees of their estate by bargain and sale of 15 February 1826 between (1) James Torkington and George Pryme, esquires and Robert Lindsell, gentleman, three commissioners and (2) (i) and enrolled in Chancery on 26 April 1826 in which (1) assigned to (2) all freehold hereditaments of (ii) to hold in trust to the use of (2) and all creditors of (ii);
- (i) caused (a) to be put up for sale at public auction at Falcon Hotel, Saint Neots on 16 May 1826 at which (iii) was highest bidder for £300
Operative Part:
- (iii) paid £300 to (i);
- (iii) paid 10/- to (ii);
- (i) released and (ii) released and confirmed (a)-(b) to (iii)
Property:
(a) cottage divided into two tenements in Ford End, Eaton Socon formerly in the occupation of Garton and Newman, now Richard Newman and William Richardson bounded: W by cottage formerly of Mrs Rogers lately sold to assignees of Rev Joseph Holmes; N by turnpike toad from Saint Neots to Woburn Sands; E and S by close of [John William Montagu, 7th] Earl of Sandwich; previously purchased by (ii) from Thomas Saunders;
(b) allotment in Ford Field, Eaton Socon now used as an orchard and garden and containing 3 roods, 27 perches, bounded: E by allotment to [Francis, 5th] Duke of Bedford; S by allotment to Francis Rix; NW by turnpike road from Saint Neots to Eaton Socon; N by first allotment (and a summerhouse standing therein) to (ii) as tenant for life and lately sold to Rev George Cornelius Gorham and Joseph Holmes and in occupation of William Flanders or his undertenant William Allen
Habendum
- to (iii), to uses declared by (iii), to the use of (iii) for life, to the use of (iv) during the life of (iii) to bar dower, to the use of (iii) for ever
Witnesses:
- W Day junior of Saint Neots, solicitor;
- Benjamin Day
Level of description
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