Reference
X948/2/LU4/5
Title
Mortgage
Date free text
24 April 1896
Production date
From: 1896 To: 1896
Scope and Content
Parties:
(i) William James Rawlings Shuter of Ashton Road, Luton, baker;
(ii) Elizabeth Jennings of Upper George Street, Luton, spinster
Operative Part:
- (i) covenanted to repay £300 to (ii) at 4% interest;
- (i) conveyed (a)-(b) to (ii)
Property:
(a) land in Baker Street bounded: NW by messuage and premises of Harry Isaac Sell and Henry Impey and measuring 85 feet; SE by land late of Luton Hoo Estate, now of Harry Isaac Sell and Henry Impey and measuring 85 feet; SW by land late of Harry Isaac Sell and Henry Impey but now of Herbert Sharp and measuring 29 feet; NE by Baker Street with a frontage of 29 feet;
(b) two messuages and outbuildings built on (a) by Arthur Attwood
Witnesses:
- John Gates of Luton, solicitor
Endorsements:
(I) Memorandum of transfer of 30 December 1916
Parties:
(1) Joseph Henry Jennings of Upper George Street, Luton, gentleman; Rev William Thomas Jennings of Skirbeck Rectory [Lincolnshire];
(2) William Thomas Jennings
Reciting:
- death of Elizabeth Jennings 2 August 1915;
- will of Elizabeth Jennings of 29 December 1900 appointing (1) as executors;
- proof of will of Elizabeth Jennings in PPR on 20 October 1915;
- £300 still owing but all interest paid;
- (2) had become solely entitled to the mortgage debt
Operative Part:
- (1) assigned and released the £300 mortgage debt to (2)
Witnesses:
- John Gates of Luton, solicitor;
- Rev Harold Pickles of Skirbeck [Lincolnshire]
(II) Reconveyance of 21 March 1939 by John Gates to William James Rawlings Shuter on redemption of the mortgage, by John Gates of Luton, solicitor, following the death of William Thomas Jennings on 21 August 1917 who, in his will of 8 October 1915 appointed John Gates as executor - will proved in PPR on 20 November 1917 - witnessed by Catherine E Hadley, clerk to Gates & Williams of Luton, solicitors
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