X441/21

Release of conveyance by Lease and Release by ii) to iii); Attested copy (made 21 December 1802)

original 20 Feb 1796; copy 21 Dec 1802

From: 1796 To: 1802

i) The Reverend Oliph Leigh Spencer, rector of Buckland, Surrey ii) Frances Cater, Devonshire Street, St Mary le bone, spinster iii) Thomas Beaumont, Buckland, Surrey, esquire The Reverend Woolley Leigh Spencer, Sheperton, Middlesex, clerk reciting that Frances Cater is seized in fee as tenant in common of an undivided third part of property in Bedfordshire, and that a marriage is arranged between her and the Reverend Oliph Leigh Spencer and it has been agreed that her third part should be transferred to iii) to sell and hold money on trusts in settlement ... lordships or manors of Kempston Grays alias Hastings Bury and Kempston Hardwicke ... capital messuage and mansion house in Kempston called The Place with appurtenances; the Bury Close; the Warren, Church close; Great Dixlands adjoining Church close; coppices and woods containing by estimate 87 acres at Wood End [description continues as in X441/15] all which manors, messuages etc., were formerly the estate of John Cater, esquire, deceased, the father of Frances Cater ... messuage, tenement or farm with land at Kempston formerly in the occupation of Judith Maynard, widow, at yearly rent of £130 ... messuage, tenement and farm at Kempston formerly in the occupation of Thomas White, at yearly rent of £37 ... closes of arable and pasture in Kempston formerly in the occupation of John Burr, at yearly rent of £20..3s..4d ... cottage now or late two tenements at Kempston formerly in the occupation of William Favell and Susannah Coleman at rent £1..14s all of which were formerly the estate of Dame Mary Knollys, widow, and were devised in her last will dated 3 February 1790 to Sophia, Frances and Mary Cater, the three daughters of her late cousin, John Cater, esquire, deceased to hold to iii) in trust to sell

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Spencer, Oliph Leigh,
Cater, Frances,
Beaumont, Thomas,
Spencer, Woolley Leigh,
Cater, John,
Maynard, Judith,
White, Thomas,
Burr, John,
Favell, William,
Coleman, Susanna,
Knollys, Mary,
Cater, Sophia,
Cater, Mary

BUILDINGS & LAND USE, Buckland [Surrey], clergy, Marylebone Devonshire Street, Shepperton, marriage settlements, KEMPSTON, manors, Kempston Greys alias Hastingsbury Manor, Kempston Hardwick Manor, HOUSING, Kempston Bury, Kempston fields, woods, Kempston Rural Wood End, Kempston farms, rentals, arable, cottages, trusts