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Deed Poll - Hawes Charity: Declaration of Trust of £86.4.0 at four per cent annuities relating to Honilove Pightle.

6 November 1832

From: 1630 To: 1832

Recites: - will of Thomas Hawes the elder, - feoffment of 1630 between Thomas Hawes the younger and the mayor and others relating the the bequest of Hawes' father of all that pightle reputed to contain 3 roods in the parish of Saint Paul and then in the occupation of Thomas Honilove (now called Honilove pightle and containing on the enclosure of St Paul's 1 acre 30 perches - the lane called Horne Lane being on the South part and the ground then of John Pateman and Edward Parrott on the north, the Lane called Key Lane of the West and the Lane (now called Gravel Lane) on the East. - letting to John Whitehouse from Michaelmas 1803 to Michaelmas 1807 when the corporation agreed to lease to the Bedford Charity but no lease was made. - lease 6 Apr 1819 to Bedford Charity with other hereditaments for 84 years at yearly rent of £100. - No specific part of the rent was affixed to Honilove pightle but from 1803 to 1831 the sum of £1 14s had been applied by the corporation to the charitable uses and a surplus remained . - £5 is the full annual value leaving £94 14s 8d. - corporation considers it should be invested in the public funds and the yearly dividends applied to the charity. - £86 4s were invested.

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Hawes, Thomas,
Honilove, Thomas,
Pateman, John,
Parrott, Edward,
Whitehouse, John

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