Reference
X340/21
Title
Assignment and surrender of 1000 year lease
Date free text
14 January 1836
Production date
From: 1830 To: 1840
Scope and Content
(1a) Mary Ann Gregory of St Albans, Hertfordshire, widow
(1b) Rev Wm. Shove Chalk of Elstree, Middlesex, clerk.
'Executors of will of Rev Thos. Gregory late of Henlow, Beds. dec.'
(2a) Wm. Gregory of Shacklewell, Middlesex, gent. and wife Ann
(2b) Thos. Gregory of Upper Clapton, MIddlesex, clerk.
(2c) Hen. Gregory of Witney, Oxon, clerk
(2d) Ellen Ann Shove Gregory of Shacklewell, spinster
(3) Samuel Lovell of Bedford, coalmerchant
Assignment & surrender of 1000 year lease by (1) to (3), (2) being parties to the agreement.
... mess. or ten. in Bedford St Mary High Street, former occ. Francis Jessop, gent., dec., then Cath. Dewberry, wid., then Jos. Winwood, gent., dec., late of Wm. Langley gent, since untenanted , adjacent to house & bakehouse late occ. Robt. Skevington, now a public house called the "Windmill" occ. [ ] Lillborn to the north, a leasehold shop owned by St Jn. Bapt. Hospt. to the south, High Street to the east.
Reciting:
Indenture 10 February 1787
(1) Mary Elger, widow
(2) John Palmer, maltster
Consideration £250 payable (2) to (1) August next. Consideration unpaid.
Trust 20 and 21 July 1788
(1) John Palmer, maltster
(2) Mary Elger, widow
(3) Sarah Birt, widow, Bedford
(4) Thos. Gregory (dec). [Trustee of 1000 year lease]
£255 11s 8d paid by (3) to (1)
£244 8s 5d paid by (3) to (2)
Lease & release 14 and 15 September 1790 [X340/16]
Thos. Bedford died June 1793.
Evans Marshall died February 1813 intestate.
Evans Marshall had inherited from Thos. Bedford. John Marshall (eldest son inherited)
John Marshall died April 1832 intestate. Evans Marshall (eldest son inherited)
Jane Shove Gregory died 22 September 1828.
Appointing of Mary Ann Gregory (widow of Thos. Gregory) and Wm. Shove Chalk executors of Thos. Gregory's will dated 5 June 1820 and proven 10 July 1821
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