• Reference
    W3149
  • Title
    Melchbourne mortgage
  • Date free text
    3 Jan 1796
  • Production date
    From: 1780 To: 1796
  • Scope and Content
    Deed of agreement between the Right Honorable Lord St. John and Samuel Whitbread, esquire, touching monies due to Mr. Whitbread upon Lord St. John's bond; and further security for part of the principal and for the interest of the whole: (i) Henry Beauchamp St. John, Baron St. John of Bletsoe; (ii) Samuel Whitbread of Bedwell Park, esquire (iii) James Cornwallis, Bishop of Lichfield & Coventry Charles Chaplin of Lincolnshire, esquire John Wingate Jennings of Harlington, esquire (iv) Culling Smith of Hertfordshire, esquire Joseph Leeds of Croydon, esquire; -- the hundreds of Barford and Stodden and the half-hundred of Melchbourne; the manorhouse of Melchbourne; the rectory; lands in Riseley; messuages and lands in Shelton, Dean, Radwell and Biddenham; the manor and manorhouse of Tillbrook cum Hardwick; the manor of East Haddon, Northamptonshire; messuages and lands in Little Port, Isle of Ely, Downham, Upwell, Little Port, Norfolk; messuage in the occupation of Mrs. Neale on Ludgate Hill; lordship of Bletsoe; and lands in Bletsoe and Sharnbrook; manors of Woodford and Denford; recitals: various, 1780, 1791 etc.,; Lord St. John owes Samuel Whitbread over £13,000 lent at various times between 1785 and 1795
  • Level of description
    item