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X441/23
Title
Conveyance of premises to Francis Green in trust for William Long
Date free text
8 Oct 1801
Production date
From: 1750 To: 1801
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i) Charles Gibson, Quornmore Park, in whom legal estate in fee simple of hereditaments comprised in recited indenture 21 March 1750 appears to be vested ii) Dame Jane Musgrave, widow of Sir Philip Musgrave, late of Hartley Castle, Westmorland and of Edenhall, Cumberland, and of Kempton Park, Middlesex, baronet, deceased, which Dame Jane formerly Jane Turton, spinster, was the only surviving child and heiress of Jane Turton, deceased, formerly Jane Beckford, spinster, by John Turton of Orgrave, Stafford, esquire, which Jane Beckford was the only sister of Thomas Beckford, esquire, deceased iii) John Danvers, Hornsey, Middlesex Samuel Turner, Great Ormond Street, Middlesex, esquire (surviving executors of John Finch, late of Clements Lane, London, ironmonger) iv) Wriothesly Digby, Mereden, Warwick, esquire, surviving trustee under settlement of 15 April 1796 v) Robert Sherbourne, Ravenhead near Prescot in Lancashire, esquire, and Sophia his wife, formerly Sophia Cater vi) Woolly Leigh John Spencer, Devonshire Street, Queen Square, Middlesex, esquire, eldest son and heir at law of the Reverend Woolley Leigh Spencer. late of Shepperton, Middlesex, clerk, who was the late surviving trustee under indentures of settlement of 19 and 20 February 1796 vii) Frances Spencer of Sutton, Lancaster, formerly Frances Cater, widow and relict of the Reverend Oliph Leigh Spencer, late of Buckland, Surrey, clerk, deceased viii) Mary Cater, Sutton, Lancaster, spinster ix) William Long, Bedford borough, esquire x) Francis Green, Bedford, merchant, trustee for ix) reciting: Bargain and Sale 9 June 1749 [X441/15] reciting: indenture 21 March 1749 [or 1750] between 1) Beckford Kendall Cater 2) John Kendall Cater 3) George Gibson, Inner Temple, London, gentleman 4) John Finch by which 1) and 2) confirmed premises to 3) in trust all the premises as are not included in the indentures of Lease and Release of 19, 20 April 1750 to hold to uses reciting: indentures of lease and release 19, 20 April 1750 1) Beckford Kendall Cater, John Kendall Cater 2) Thomas Beckford, then of Ashted, Surrey, esquire Thomas Jordan, then of Gatwick, esquire (both since deceased) 3) Margaret Beaumont (later Margaret Cater) being settlement before marriage between John Kendall Cater and Margaret Beaumont, dealing with properties as in X441/17, with statement of trusts in release of 20 April 1750 reciting: will of John Kendall Cater, who left on his death, widow Margaret and only son John and three daughters Sophia, Frances and Mary; and that on 3 January 1785, Margaret Cater died reciting: death of John Cater intestate and without issue and unmarried; and deed of 28 January 1796 [X441/18] reciting: death of George Gibson, 21 March 1758, intestate and without issue leaving sister Sarah Gibson, spinster, as heir; death of Sarah Gibson 11 April 1778 without issue leaving Robert Gibson of Myerscough Hall her cousin and heir at law under her will dated 29 March 1775 which left estates to John Gibson, clerk, brother of Robert who died 21 December 1786 (will 22 March 1780) devising property to Charles Gibson, only son reciting: death of Robert Gibson 11 February 1790, heir, nephew Charles Gibson reciting: death of Thomas Jordan 1750, and death of Thomas Beckford, 18 February 1757, leaving will dated 27 November 1756 leaving Dame Jane Musgrave, niece and heiress reciting: lease and release 19, 20 February 1796 (lease X441/21) and death of Thomas Beaumont 15 August 1796 and death of Woolley Leigh Spencer, and death of Oliph Leigh Spencer, and death of John Finch reciting: that William Long has contracted to purchase property in Kempston for £29,000 Conveyance of premises to Francis Green in trust for William Long ... manors or lordships of Kempston Grayes alias Hastingsbury and Kempston Hardwick ... capital messuage once called The Place but now called Kempston House, with offices, yards, stables, gardens, bowling green, grove or plantation belonging to it, 4 acres 22 perches ... 6 closes of pasture called the Bason close, the Church close, the Brimfield close, the Bury close, the Paddock and Warren closes, now laid into one close, the Harlots close, in all 51 acres 1 rood 2 perches all now in occupation of Thomas Squires in Kempston ... piece of meadow called the Holme now in possession of Thomas Squires, 25 acres 2 roods 12 perches ... The Great Wood 66 acres 14 perches ... The Little Wood 29 acres 1 rood 36 perches; Colemans Spinney 2 acres 1 rood 9 perches; 5 pieces of wood or coppice in the Boxes containing 3 acres 10 perches all wood now in hand and unlet ... messuage and farm called Bartrams and 14 pieces old inclosed land adjoining 88 acres 2 roods 32 perches and 217 acres 3 roods 24 perches open field land in tenure of Lewis Bartram ... messuage and farm called Brinnleys with 7 pieces old enclosed land containing 27 acres 2 roods 21 perches and 129 acres 16 perches common land in tenure of John Brinnley ... messuage and farm called Burrs with 21 pieces old enclosed land, in all 102 acres 2 perches and 154 acres 3 roods 21 perches open field land in tenure of John Burr ... messuage and farm called Cowdells with fields parcels of old enclosed land containing 10 acres 1 rood 11 perches and 103 acres 28 perches open field land in tenure of George Hart and Joseph Pheasy ... messuage and farm called White Hands with 8 pieces old enclosure containing 55 acres 10 perches and 32 acres 2 roods 12 perches common field land in tenure of Samuel Whitehand ... messuage and farm called Saunders and 3 pieces old enclosure 8 acres 1 rood 18 perches and 153 acres 1 rood 3 perches open field land in tenure of Abraham Burr ... water corn mill with the messuage or dwelling house and a cottage or tenement near the same and 2 pieces old enclosure 12 acres 32 perches ... common field land 27 acres 3 roods 33 perches, in tenure of James White ... 4 pieces old enclosed pasture 33 acres 1 rood, in tenure of Thomas Button ... 27 acres 2 perches common field land, in tenure of John Lilley ... 15 acres 1 rood 37 perches open field land, in tenure of Matthew Parke ... 2 pieces open field land in the Box in tenure of William Staines [sic] containing 13 acres 28 perches ... piece old enclosure called Ren Park 1 rood 3 perches and common field land 6 acres 14 perches, now in tenure of Thomas Eyles ... HoneyHill pightle 1 acre 2 roods 17 perches in tenure of John Linebarn [?] ... 9 cottages in Kempston of which one is in tenure of Overseers of Kempston and is used as a Pest House; two others are in the tenure of William Moore; the remaining six are in the possession of Robert Lamboot, John Purser, William Dudley, James Armes, Oliver Leach and Henry Swales Covenant to surrender: ... 22 acres 2 roods arable and leys and 2 acres 2 roods meadow, formerly purchased of John Barker, subject to quit rent of 12s per annum ... 3 acres meadow in Earls Holme purchased of Robert Courtman and wife Sarah, quit rent 9s ... Browns close on part of which a barn and stable formerly stood in East End 1 acre, 6s per annum quit rent ... ground near the Mill close in the manor of Kempston Daubeny mention of leasehold property: ... messuage or cottage or scite of messuage or toft in Box End and close adjoining, 4 acres, and leasehold close formerly called Colemans in Boxhill Foot, 8 acres, and leasehold piece of land formerly called Rainsford alias Brainsford and afterwards laid with freehold lands into one close called Greens close or New close in Green End which are held for terms of 3000, 1000, 500 years but lie so intermixed with freehold that they cannot be distinguished
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