Reference
X948/2/LU6/1
Title
Abstract of Title of James Ridgeway to Bell Close in High Town Road, Luton
Date free text
1902
Production date
From: 1902 To: 1902
Scope and Content
(I) Order of exchange of 16 December 1869
Reciting:
- Rev James O’Neill, Julius Gaborian Shepherd, gentleman and John Cumberland, land agent, all of Luton were trustees of Elizabeth Winch’s Charity and held land in 1st Schedule; persons comprising more than two-thirds in number and value of the several owners of Great Moor and Lammas Meadow and The People’s Park held land in 2nd Schedule and all parties desired to make an exchange and applied to Inclosure Commissioners for England and wales to order such an exchange;
- notice by advertisement for three successive weeks of the intended exchange had been made;
- three months had elapsed since publication of the advertisements without receipt of any objection;
- the commissioners were of opinion that the exchange would be mutually beneficial
Operative Part:
- the Inclosure Commissioners ordered the exchange
1st Schedule
- Bridgefield otherwise Burgefield comprising 6 acres, 3 4 roods 16 poles
2nd Schedule
- Bell Piece Field, Luton comprising 3 acres, 3 roods, 25 poles;
- Bell Close Field, Stopsley comprising 3 acres, 2 roods, 15 poles
(II) Order of Board of Charity Commissioners for England & Wales of 12 November 1886 in the Matter of the Charity of Elizabeth Winch and the Matter of the Charitable Trusts Acts 1853 to 1869
Reciting:
- application to the board by James D O’Neill, Vicar of Luton and John Cumberland acting for the charity;
- the charity endowments consisted of scheduled land with gross annual income of less than £50;
- trustees should be appointed and a scheme established to regulate the charity;
- the board had published its intention to establish trustees and a scheme, to which none had objected;
- the scheduled land should be vested in trust
Operative Part:
- Vicar and churchwardens of Luton together with John Cumberland JP, Robert Smith Tomson JP, corn merchant, John William Green, brewer, John Higgins JP, plumber and glazier, Hugh Gunn, hat and bonnet merchant and Hugh Cumberland, land agent, all of Luton were appointed trustees;
- trustees to be able to sue, give receipt and discharge for money;
- scheduled land vested in The Official Trustee of Charity Lands
Schedule:
- 7 acres, 2 roods known as Bell Close in Luton and Stopsley in occupation of W Day, W Jeaking and others
(III) death of John Higgins on 23 July 1890
(IV) death of Hugh Gunn on 1 November 1896
(V) Order of Board of Charity Commissioners for England & Wales of 17 June 1902 allowing trustees to sell the land for £4,250
(VI) Conveyance of 29 September 1902
Parties:
(i) Richard Durnford, esquire, Secretary of Board of Charity Commissioners for England and Wales;
(ii) Rev Edmund Robert Mason, Vicar of Luton; Edmund Tydeman of Luton, Superintendent of Police; Alfred Pilgrim of Luton, warehouseman - vicar and churchwardens of Luton; John Cumberland, land agent; Robert Smith Tomson, corn merchant; John William Green, brewer and Hugh Cumberland, land agent, all of Luton - trustees;
(iii) James Ridgeway of The Pheasantry, Old Bedford Road, Luton
Reciting:
- (V)
Operative Part:
- (iii) gave £4,250 to (ii);
- (i), at request of (ii), conveyed and (ii) conveyed and confirmed (a) to (iii)
Property:
(a) 7 acres, 1 rood, 26 poles (formerly said to be 7 acres, 2 roods) known as Bell Field and Bell Close Field bounded: SE partly by High Town Road, Luton and partly by land of Alfred Blundell; SW by Park Way; NW by land of Francis Crawley; NE by land of Alfred Blundell
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