X507/1a-b

Conveyance (lease and release)

30, 31 Mar 1779

From: 1748 To: 1779

i) The Honourable and Reverend John Tracey, D.D., warden of All Souls College, Oxford John Bagnall of Early Court, Berkshire, esquire ii) Edmund Hawker of Charlotte Street, Marylebone, Middlesex, esquire, and wife Rachel, late Rachel Powles, spinster iii) Richard Beecher of Rookesnest, Surrey, esquire iv) Thomas Raikes of New Broad Street, London, esquire v) John Beecher of Howbury, Renhold, esquire, elder brother of iii) William Beecher of Grosvenor Place, Middlesex, esquire, only son and heir apparent of above vi) Thomas Rush of Bedford, grocer recites: Will of William Beecher of Howbury, esquire, dated 5 May 1748, proved in Prerogative Court of Canterbury to John Beecher, amongst other lands, estate for life in messuage, tenements, and shop hereinafter conveyed to William Beecher, amongst other lands, estate tail in reversion expectant on death of John Beecher, his father, in said messuage Deed to Create Tenant to the Precipe and Suffer Common Recovery 10, 11 Nov 1769 i) John Beecher and wife Mary ii) William Beecher iii) Edward Woodcock of Lincolns Inn, Middlesex, esquire iv) Elborough Woodcock of Lincolns Inn, gentleman Common Recovery said estates settled to use of i) and assigns for life and after his death as he and son William should agree Mortgage (lease and release) 15, 16 September 1773 i) v) ii) iii) iii) Elborough Woodcock aforesaid property, amongst other property mortgaged to ii) Assignment of Term in Trust to Attend the Inheritance 20, 21 December 1776 i) John Beecher and wife Mary William Beecher, their son ii) Thomas Raikes aforesaid property, amongst other property, assigned to ii) for remainder of term, in trust for Richard Beecher Assignment of Mortgage (lease and release) 1, 2 April 1777 i) William Beecher ii) Thomas Raikes, trustee for Richard Beecher iii) Rachel Powles iv) i) as trustee for iii) consideration: £5,000 mortgage assigned to iv) in trust for iii) Marriage Settlement 5 April 1777 made on marriage of Edmund Hawker to Rachel Powles. Her marriage portion of £10,000 of which £500 secured on above mortgage, assigned to i) upon trusts ... vi) contracted to buy premises for £320 ii) and i) agree that premises shall be discharged from £5,000 mortgage now: consideration: £320 to iii) by vi) - messuage and shop now divided into 2 dwellings and 2 shops with appurtenances in High Street, Bedford, now occupied by William Palmer, barber - messuage and shop with appurtenances adjoining above messuage in High Street, Bedford, now occupied by vi) signatures: i), ii), iii), iv), v) witnesses: John Spiller, John Bell, of Lincolns Inn Richard Scrimshore, High Street, Amersham, Buckinghamshire, esquire Mary Shephard, daughter of the Reverend Thomas Shephard, vicar of Speen, Berkshire William Palmer, William Grace, servants at All Saints College Edward Hannum, clerk to Mr Raikes Jeremy Fish Palmer Thomas Kidman, clerk to Mr Fish Palmer

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Tracey, John,
All Souls College, Oxford,
Bagnall, John,
Hawker, Edmund,
Hawker, Rachel,
Powles, Rachel,
Beecher, Richard,
Raikes, Thomas,
Beecher, John,
Beecher, Mary,
Beecher, William,
Rush, Thomas,
Woodcock, Edward,
Woodcock, Elborough,
Palmer, William

BUILDINGS & LAND USE, Doctor of Divinity, warden, Oxford All Souls College, Berkshire Early Court, St.Pancras Charlotte Street, Surrey Rooks Nest, London New Broad Street, Howbury, London Grosvenor Place, BEDFORD, grocer, wills, Lincolns Inn, mortgages, trusts, marriage settlements, HOUSING, shops, Bedford High Street, barber