Reference
X1021/5/1/5
Title
Appointment of new trustees of the almshouses founded by Robert Hibbert and conveyance of land and almshouses in Hibbert Street, Luton
Date free text
31 December 1889
Production date
From: 18819 To: 1889
Scope and Content
Between:
(i) Henry Blundell of Luton, draper and Henry Brown of Luton, timber merchant;
(ii) Alfred Phippen Welch;
(iii) William Henry Brown of Luton, miller; Herbert Owen Williams of Luton, builders merchant; Richard Edward Cooke of Luton, solicitor; Walter Thomas Lye of Luton, straw plait dyer; and Frederick John Brown of Luton, ironfounder
Recites:
- lease and release dated 1 and 2 January 1819 [see X1021/5/1/1];
- lease and release dated 5 and 6 November 1824 [see X1021/5/1/2];
- release dated 3 June 1850 [see X1021/5/1/3];
- release dated 31 July 1864 [see X1021/5/1/4];
- conveyance of exchange dated 1 July 1885 between trustees of Ashton Charity and trustees of Hibbert Almshouse Endowment Charity;
- desire of Alfred Phippen Welch to be discharged as a trustee;
- deaths of Thomas Sikes, Henry Coles Brown, Charles Addington Austin and Evan Owen Williams;
- appointment of William Henry Brown, Herbert Owen Williams, Richard Edward Cooke, Walter Thomas Lye and Frederick John Brown as trustees
Property conveyed to new trustees:
- land on NE of newly made road called Hibbert Street; bounded on SW by Hibbert Street, NE by a footpath, and on NW and SE by other property now or lately part of of a field called White Hill Field; measuring 215 feet along Hibbert Street, 61 feet 6 inches deep at SE side and 66 fee at NW side and 215 feet along the back
- six almshouses or double cottages and the Hall or Room and other outbuildings erected on that land [shown on plan]; with rights of way and right to use sewers constructed under Hibbert Street
Investments transferred listed in Schedule I (mortgages) and Schedule II (stocks) [Extensive series of mortgages of property to the trustees by Richard Gilpin and Richard Thomas Gilpin of property in Chalgrave, Houghton Regis, Toddington and Hockliffe]
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