Reference
MB2/CH/6/4991
Title
Conveyance of a chapel at Chalk Hill (copy)
Date free text
1859
Production date
From: 1859 To: 1859
Scope and Content
Parties to conveyance:
(i) Richard Medcraft of Chalton, farmer and Benjamin Billington of Union Street, Dunstable, grocer
(ii) William Hunt, factor; William Axtill, plait sealer; John Robinson, grocer; John Williams, corn merchant; Richard Howes, farmer; Thomas Weatherill, draper; Benjamin Bennett the younger, factor; John Bailey, factor; Robert Gibbard, corn merchant, all of Dunstable; Lawrance Emmerton of Chalk Hill, greengrocer; William Scroggs of Chalk Hill, farmer and William Fletcher of Houghton Regis, grocer (trustees of the building or chapel mentioned)
(iii) Reverend Philiip Fowler of Dunstable, the superintending minister for the Dunstable Circuit
For payment of £20 by the trustees to Richard Medcraft he conveyed the building or Chapel situated at Chalk Hill (otherwise Puddle Hill) in the the parish of Houghton Regis, 17 feet 7 inches wide at both front and back and 34 feet 5 inches long on both sides, abutting: the Turnpike Road from Dunstable to Hockliffe on the east; a small piece of land belonging to John White on the north; a garden, cottages and premises belonging to James Billington on the south and west. The Chapel had been in use by the Wesleyan Methodist Society since 1835.
Recites an indenture of release dated 3rd July 1832 between:
(i) John Sutcliffe, Benjamin Garside, Francis Farnell, John Swallow, [Thomas?] Firth, Robert Wilson, Samuel Nayler, John Fearby, [Sutch?], Thomas Fox Sutcliffe, Charles Swallow, John Swallow the younger, Samuel Morley, Joseph Garside accountant, William Farw[...], and Joseph Garside wood turner
(ii) Reverend George Marsden
(iii) James Brown
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