Reference
X688/19-20
Title
Lease and Release
Date free text
18 Jun 1784
Production date
From: 1784 To: 1784
Scope and Content
i) William Wilshere senior, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, gentleman
Thomas Alsop, Luton, grocer
(assignees of the estate of John Cook, late of Barton, carpenter, dealer and chapman, a bankrupt)
ii) said John Cook
iii) John Throckmorton, Weston Underwood, Northamptonshire, esquire (executor of estate of Mary Noddings, spinster, deceased, who survived her sister, Elizabeth Noddings)
iv) Joseph Cole, Shefford, gentleman
reciting the commission in bankruptcy issued against John Cook on 16 January last [1784]
£140 is now due to iii) plus interest, which is more than the property is worth if sold. However iii) is willing to accept the property in full of the said sum of £140
now in consideration of 40s paid to i) by iii) to purchase the equity of redemption
i) and ii) at direction of iii) release to iv)
- close pasture (2 acres) in Brook End
- cottage at Barton
to be held in trust for iii)
signatures of i) and ii)
endorsed receipt
witness: Isaac Coxall
Level of description
item