Reference
X215/1-2
Title
Conveyance (lease and release): £2000
Date free text
9, 10 Oct 1806
Production date
From: 1806 To: 1806
Scope and Content
(i) Charles Dilly esq, Queens Square, Bloomsbury, brother, heir and devisee in will of John Dilly of Clophill, Esq
(ii) Richard Bodger of Southill, gent
(iii) Charles Austin of Ampthill, gent,. nominated in trust for (ii)
(Rec. of Act of Parliament of 1775 for exchanging some of lands of marriage settlement of George Lord Viscount Torrington for lands of St. Johns College, Oxford and for exchanging mills and lands in same settlement for lands of John Dilly, gent. John dilly seized of lands at Southill adjg. estates in same settlement remaining unsold. Covenient to annex these and Shefford Mills to estate of settlement. Shefford Mills and lands app. covenient to be exchanged in part for lands of John Dilly, of greater value than lands and mills to be exchanged for them. Exchange agreed to by Dilly and Lord Torrington, £350.5s to be paid to Dilly to compensate for inequality of exchange, and Shefford Mills with lands app. occ. by Thomas Squire to be vested in John Dilly and heirs after 25 Mar 1775 (freed from terms of 500 years of deed of 1 Aug 1747 and 1000 years of deed from 6 July 1775 mentioned in Act) but subject to fee farm rent of £6.17s.6f. rec. of will of John dilly of 12 June 1805, estate in Southill, Clifton and Shefford to brother Charles Dilly; exors Charles Dilly and Samuel Davis Jnr of Ampthill, gent. Rec. of agreement of (ii) to purchase mills from (i).)
(i) - (iii) by discretion of (ii) and in trust for (ii)
- Farm house and water mills once called Tythe Mills then Shefford Mills with app. in Southill and Clifton, part of possessions of late Priory of Chicksands and occ. by John waller, alias Warren.
- cottage in Southill near mills with Hemplan occ. by Thomas Mawatyne
- closes in Southill and Clifton occ. by John Waller, Nicholas Field and Humphrey Cranfield
- Close, 4ac. 11p
- Close (6 3/4a. 16p.)
- Land covered with water and mill pond
- Close of meadow and below mill
- Close adjg. land of Samuel Whitbread
- the road around the mill
- Close of land (4 1/4 ac. and 6p.) all adjg. the mill
(Freely acquitted except for fee farm rent (v. recitals) and lease of above of 14 January 1805 to John northwood for three years beginning Michaelmas 1805.
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