Reference
AN38/14
Title
Mortgage
Date free text
22 November 1727
Production date
From: 1727 To: 1727
Scope and Content
Parties:
(i) John Godfrey of Hitchin [Hertfordshire], gentleman and Ann, his wife; Edward Lawndey Godfrey of London, tobacconist (son of John and Ann Godfrey);
(ii) Edward Sparhauke of Baldock [Hertfordshire], gentleman;
(iii) Nicholas Apthorpe of Gamlingay [Cambridgeshire], gentleman; Thomas Love of Baldock, maltster
Operative Part:
- Nicholas Apthorpe paid £400 to (i);
- to bar dower and dock entails and for settling estate to uses John Godfrey and (ii) covenanted to levy a fine sur cognizance de droit come ceo etc to Thomas Love of (a)-(k)
Property:
(a) farmhouse in Arlesey in occupation of John Impye;
(b) three closes of pasture and meadow called Home Closes containing 8 acres;
Ann messuage in Arlesey formerly in the occupation of Richard Rowel;
(d) close of pasture called Hawick containing 4 acres with close of Richard Edwards S and close late of Richard Welby N;
(e) Little Round Close of 1 acre with Winchill Field E, closes late of Thomas Browne N and S;
(f) Dame Reasons Close of 2 acres with Winchill Lane S and common baulk in Stocking Field N;
(g) Bushey Close containing 1 acre with close of Thomas Browne S, close formerly in the occupation of Richard Welby N;
(h) three closes lying together called Green End Closes containing 8 acres with close of Thomas Browne S, Stocking Field N;
(i) pieces of meadow dispersed in Arlesey containing 11 acres, 2½ roods [all adjoining fields named];
(j) 150 acres of arable in the common fields of Arlesey, Stotfold and Astwick;
(k) messuage in Flamstead [Hertfordshire], two closes of arable and woodland comprising 24 acres, given to Ann Godfrey by her late brother Thomas Papworth
Habendum:
- (a)-(j) to the use of Nicholas Apthorpe for 1,000 years, subject to equity of redemption, to the use of deed of John and Ann Godfrey, remainder to the use of John Godfrey for life, remainder to the use of Ann Godfrey for life, remainder to the use of children of John and Ann Godfrey as stated in the will of John Godfrey, remainder to the children of John and Ann Godfrey, remainder to (ii) for ever;
- (k) to the use of John and Ann Godfrey for their lives, remainder to the use of the heirs of John Godfrey
Proviso:
- for equity of redemption - interest not specified
Witnesses:
- Ann Addis;
- Walter Nicholas Williams;
- Francis Bosworth [by mark]
Level of description
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