Scope and Content
Parties:
(i) Richard Marriott, late of Gray’s Inn [Middlesex], since of Brook Street, Saint George’s, Hanover Square [Middlesex], now of Dean Street, Soho, Saint Ann, Westminster [Middlesex], esquire;
(ii) John Reeves of Exchange Alley, Cornhill [City of London], banker and Robert Tabrum of Boar’s Head Court, Gracechurch Street [City of London], warehouseman (assignees of the estate of John Casper Hartsinck, Julius Hutchinson and William Playfair, late of Cornhill, bankers, co-partners and bankrupts);
(iii) Julius Hutchinson;
(iv) John Williamson of Baldock [Hertfordshire], esquire
Reciting:
- AN29/59-60;
- £5,500 was not paid;
- AN29/61;
- commission in bankruptcy of 31 October 1797 against John Casper Hartsinck, Julius Hutchinson and William Playfair;
- AN29/65;
- AN29/66;
- AN29/67-68;
- Manor of Little Barford was by (ii) put up for sale by Peter Coxe, Burrell and Foster at Garraway’s Coffee House, Exchange Alley on Thursday 2 August 1798 at which (iv) was highest bidder at £14,100 subject to payment of an annuity of £172 to Mary Schutz (the other £172 being payable by Michael Angelo Taylor, son of Sir Robert Taylor) but entitled to receive interest from Mary Schutz on the sum of £4,231/8/-;
- (i), (ii) and (iv), with consent of (iii) agreed that the £14,100 should be paid as follows: £10,000 to Richard Fitzherbert in discharge of his mortgage; £291 to Wadeson, Hardy and Barlow, solicitors to the Commission of Bankruptcy for their costs; £3,809 to (i) in part satisfaction of £5,351 residue of his mortgage (£150 having previously been paid to him by (iii));
- (iv) had already paid £10,000 to Richard Fitzherbert and £291 to Wadeson, Hardy and Barlow
Operative Part:
- (iv) paid £3,809 to (i) by direction of (ii) ans with consent of (iii);
- (i), at request of (ii) and (iii) released (a)-(k) to (iv)
Property:
(a) Manor of Little Barford;
(b) advowson of Little Barford;
(c) right of free fishing in Great Ouse at Eaton Socon and Tempsford;
(d) site of the capital messuage;
(e) 271 acres, 2 roods 9 perches in occupation of William Emery;
(f) farmhouse with closes of arable, meadow and pasture containing 266 acres, 1 rood, 5 perches in occupation of John Peck;
(g) farmhouse with closes of arable, meadow and pasture containing 267 acres, 17 perches in occupation of Edward Peck;
(h) tithes arising from 81 acres of meadow or pasture bounded N by meadow of Henry Tingey, W and SW by Great Ouse
(i) several cottages in occupation of Edward Emery, John Selby, William Landon, [blank] Lewis, William Beby, Edward Wells, John Darlow, Richard Emery, George Pell, Thomas Peck and Martin Croucher and now of Thomas Peck, John Living, John Waters, John Darlow, Richard Baldock, Dame Hodgson, Thomas Mays, William Brightman, John Green, John Andrews, David Toseland, Martin Crutchley and Overseers of the Poor of Little Barford;
(e)-(i) in occupation of William Wasse and Thomas Wilson except 10 cares in plantation;
(j) quit rent of 13/4 issuing out of lands late of Thomas Tingey in Little Barford;
(k) quit rent of 2/4 issuing out of lands late of Ashcombe [Oliver Ayshcombe?] in Little Barford and Eynesbury
Habendum:
- to (iv)
Witnesses:
- Thomas R Ridlington of Gough Square [City of London];
- Edward Cooch of Baldock [Hertfordshire];
- J S Wadeson;
- George Tichner Hardy;
- A M Barlow