Reference
X948/2/LU23/1
Title
Abstract of title of Bird, Franklin and Linger to freehold land in Luton
Date free text
1906
Production date
From: 1906 To: 1906
Scope and Content
(I) will of John Sambrook Crawley of 20 May 1882 devising real estate to the intent that his wife Sarah Bridget receive an annual rent charge of £700 and to the use of William James Farrer and William Joseph Jarrett for 500 years from the date of his death as trustees to the use of testator’s eldest son Francis for his life and after his death to use of his first or every son successively according to seniority in tail male, to the use of his first and every daughter; with power for trustees to sell; appointing his son Francis as sole executor
(II) death of John Sambrook Crawley on 22 September 1895
(III) proof of the will and codicil (19 January 1887) of John Sambrook Crawley in PPR on 177 December 1895
(IV) Appointment of new trustees of 5 December 1903
Parties
(i) Sir William James Farrer; William Joseph Jarrett;
(ii) Francis Crawley;
(iii) Edgar Lubbock of The Brewery, Chiswell Street [City of London]; Arthur William Leatham of Misenden Park, Cirencester [Gloucestershire], esquires
Reciting:
- (i);
- (II);
- (III);
- (ii) had requested the retirement of (i) as trustees;
- (ii) as tenant for life wished to appoint (iii) as trustees;
- all funerary and testamentary expenses and debts had been paid but certain legacies or portions were still outstanding and the £700 annuity was still payable
Operative Part:
- (ii) appointed (iii) as trustees
(V) Conveyance of 31 October 1905
Parties:
(i) Francis Crawley of Stockwood near Luton, esquire;
(ii) Edgar Lubbock of The Brewery, Chiswell Street [City of London], esquire; Arthur William Leatham of Miserden Park, Cireccester [Gloucestershire], esquire;
(iii) Sarah Bridget Crawley of 5 Ovington Gardens, Kensington [Middlesex], widow;
(iv) Arthur Richard Bird of Downs Road, Luton, gentleman; Benjamin Belgrove Franklin of Market Hill, Luton. Surveyor; Frederick Linger of Wellington Street, Luton, draper
Reciting:
- (I) - (IV) above;
- (a)-(c) formed part of real estate of John Sambrook Crawley;
- (i) was entitled to possession or receipts of rents and profits from (a)-(c) for his life;
- (i) agreed sale to (iv);
- (iii) had agreed to join the conveyance to release her annuity secured on other property of ample value;
- (ii) as trustees had agreed to concur with the conveyance to release (a)-(c) from term of 500 years
Operative Part:
- (iv) paid £16,858/2/6 to (ii) by direction of (i) and privity of (iii);
- (i) granted and conveyed and (iii) released (a)-(c) to (iv);
- (ii), at request of (i), surrendered and assigned (a)-(c) to (iv) in order to extinguish the term of 500 years in (a)-(c)
Property [shown on X948/2/LU23/2]:
(a) land in Luton - the Dallow Road site - of 10 acres, 3 roods, 22 poles bounded: SW by Dallow Road; NW partly by public footpath of 6 feet width, partly by land of Francis Crawley; NE by Great Northern Railway; SE by premises of Luton Wholesale Co-operative Society used as a cocoa factory;
(b) land in Luton - the Beech Hill site - containing 13 acres, 3 roods, 17 poles bounded: S by road from Luton to Dunstable; NW by land of Francis Crawley; NE by Leagrave Road; SE partly by land of Arthur Richard Bird, Benjamin Belgrove Franklin and Frederick Linger, partly by land of Ernest Gibbs;
(c) land in Luton - New Bedford Road site - containing 8 acres, 3 roods, 1 pole bounded: E by New Bedford Road; S partly by land of Francis Crawley, partly by Biscot Road; N by land of Francis Crawley
Covenant:
- by (iv) to nake, curb and channel roads of at least 36 feet width as shown in X948/2/LU23/2, with main drains and sewers and footpaths; also to erect fences of at least 5 feet height around each site where it abutted other land of Francis Crawley; and not to erect hotel, public house, tavern for sale of beer, wines and spirits on of off the premises or property carrying on any obnoxious or offensive trade or business;
- by (i) to deliver scheduled deeds
Schedule:
- conveyance of 13 June 1859 (1) Hon Patrick James Herbert Crichton Stuart, (2) John Boyle and William Stuart the younger; (2) John Sambrook Crawley;
- Conveyance of 7 November 1862 (1) John Shaw Leigh; (2) John Sambrook Crawley;
- Conveyance of 5 December 1903 (1) Sir William James Farrer and William Joseph Jarrett; (2) Francis Crawley; (3) Edgar Lubbock and Arthur William Leatham
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