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
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