Reference
X369/33
Title
Assignment of Lease [see X369/8]
Date free text
1 Sep 1848; attested 23 Nov 1848
Production date
From: 1848 To: 1848
Scope and Content
i) Charles Higgins the elder of Bedford, farmer
ii) Isaac Elger of Bedford, surgeon
iii) the Reverend John Jukes, minister
Charles Berrill, builder
James Burr, ironmonger
Thomas Carling, plumber
James Coombs, chemist
Benjamin Everitt, brewer's clerk
William Wells Kilpin, ironmonger
Samuel Ward, carpenter
(all of Bedford)
John Edward Bodger, farmer
Benjamin Prole the younger, farmer
(both of Cardington)
recites: X369/5
now, consideration: £500 paid by iii) to ii)
£5 paid by iii) to i)
- piece of land in Bedford, being part of Castle Close
North: Castle Lane
West and principal part of East: remainder of close
all other parts by premises lately used as Depot by Lord Lieutenant
- messuage and buildings lately used as a club room and outhouses adjoining built on above land
to iii) for remainder of 90 year term
Declaration by iii) as members of the Society or Congregation of Protestant Dissenters assembling for the Public Worship of God in the "Old Meeting" or Bunyan Chapel that the buildings will be used as a Sunday School and for any other purpose to promote the said Society and upon trust to mortgage or sell or exchange the said premises according to the will of the majority of trustees
signatures: i), ii), iii)
witnesses: Alexander Sharman, solicitor, Bedford
Thomas Row, clerk to Messrs Sharman and Turnley
Thomas W Turnley, solicitor, Bedford
C Last, clerk to Messrs Sharman and Turnley 1 Sep 1848
attested: Thomas Cornish, Charles Leech, clerks to Messrs Sharman and Turnley 23 Nov 1848
Level of description
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