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(i) John Heaviside of Hatfield, Herts, esq
Charles Fyshe Palmer of Luckley House, Wokingham, Berks (eldest son and heir of Henry Fish Palmer of Ickwell, decd, who was the only son and heir of Humphrey Fyshe of Ickwell, decd.)
Jeremy Fyshe Palmer of Bedford, gent (another son of Henry Fish Palmer)
John Fyshe Palmer of Peterborough, doctor of physic (another son of Henry Fish Palmer)
(ii) William Smith of St Pauls, Bedford, butcher
Recitals:
Will of Henry Fish Palmer in which he devised all his manors, messuages, lands and hereditaments in Beds. and Middlesex and all other his manors, messuages, lands and tenements (except his estates in Berks. and Wilts.) and bequeathed his personal estate to (i) in trust to pay and apply the rents thereof to the use of his wife Elizabeth for life (who died in the lifetime of her husband) and, after her decease, upon the several trusts mentioned and declared in will.
Declaration (contained) in above will) to promote and facilitate the sale of real estate, that the receipt(s) of his trustee(s) or theire survivor(s) shall be a good and effectual discharge to the purchaser(s) of his real estate or any part thereof from any obligation to see to the application of the monies arising by the sale (or be answerable or chargeable for the same) being apploed to the trusts and directions contained in the will.
That (ii) has contracted with (i) fo the absolute purchase of the freehold and inheritance of (a) for £210.
Conveyance by lease and release from (i) in consideration of £210 to (ii) of:
(a) messuage or tenement new built about 25 years ago with the yard and garden behind the same and the stable and wash house standing in the yard situated in the High Street in St Pauls, Bedford; the messuage or tenement now in occ. of Joseph Barker, cabinet maker, being on the north side, the messuage ot tenement some years ago of John Ockerhouse, late of Thomas Rush and now of John Emery, grocer, lying on the south side and the High Street on the west side.
Which said messuage when new built was first in the occupation of Jeremy Fish Palmer, afterwards of Diana Smith, widow, since of Thomas Orlebar Marsh, clerk, late of John Lloyd, clerk, decd. and is now empty and on the site of ground on which the new built messuage or tenement, stable and wash house stand and of the said yard or garden many years in the occupation of Coulson with a blacksmiths shop erected thereon, in the occupation of Chamberlain, blacksmith on of the Alderman of the said town.
Conveyed with 'all edifices, buildings, cellars, yards, gardens, drains, easements, profits and appurtences' belonging to (a)
Dorse
Witnesses: John Heaviside Jnr and James Wood, Robert Ridgeway and James Purdy, John Read of Bedford, painter and Thomas Kidman, clerk and b. Betham of Peterborough, surgeon and John Horden of Peterborough, bookseller; Nathaniel Forster, D.D and Matthew Brickdale of 3rd Dragoon Guards.