Reference
X380/33-34
Title
Release and Assignment
Date free text
13, 14 Aug 1806
Production date
From: 1797 To: 1806
Scope and Content
i) John Malden, Biggleswade, baker
Joshua Malden, Biggleswade, joiner
James Malden, Cardington, farmer
Ebenezer Malden, Bedford, baker
Benjamin Malden, Bedford, baker
ii) Peregrine Nash, Bedford, brewer
iii) Robert West, Eynesbury, Huntingdon, gentleman
iv) William Stapleton, Bedford, gentleman
Reciting indenture 14 December 1797 between
1) Benjamin Malden and Ebenezer Malden (his trustee)
2) Robert West
being demise by 1) to 2) for 1000 years by way of mortgage to secure £900 of:
... messuage formerly an inn called the Ragged Staff in High Street, Bedford St Paul, then or late in occupation of William Parker and Richard Parker and then in occupation of Benjamin Malden
... shop adjoining messuage South, in occupation of John Gillam
... other shop adjoining messuage North, then in occupation of William Serjeant
... messuage or tenement in the yard in occupation of William Serjeant
... back yard with barns, stables, gardens, edifices, then in occupation of Benjamin Malden, the furthest gate of which opens into a strip of ground formerly in occupation of Thomas Odell, then Samuel Smith eastwards, which leads into Castle Lane through the backyard then in occupation of Samuel Smith, with free passageway for Benjamin Malden to Castle Lane
all of which bounded North by messuage then in occupation of Sarah Swepson, ironmonger in part and by Rose Inn in part, and South by messuage in occupation of Thomas Odell then Samuel Smith, and were purchased of Melicant Austin, widow
and reciting that in consideration of Peregrine Nash having given up to Benjamin Malden a barn which he had lately purchased of Benjamin Malden, i) have agreed to convey to ii)
... free passageway from the said back yard into Castle Lane
and Robert West, being satisfied that premises, excluding this passageway, are sufficient to secure his £900 has agreed
Release by i) to ii) of said passageway, and assignment by iii)
Covenant to produce documents [see X380/59]
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