13th Sep, 2025 10:00
Fine Art & Antiques with Jewellery & Watches
Sold for £150
A metal deed box with contents of mainly George III period vellum indentures and other legal documents, many relating to the Herbert family and the Bedford area, most with blue official seals and further red seal stamps, to include: annuities, leases, deeds of covenant, deeds of exchange, probates etc. Individual documents of interest being: 1706, 1708 and 1709 Queen Anne deeds; George II denizen grant of letters patent listing several ‘alien born’ people; 1727 four-page probate distribution between members of the Clerke family of Bucks, with reference to land in Shabbington and therefore possible related to the Clerke Baronets of Hitcham; 1723 four-page release of land in Shabbington from Lady Clerke (widow of Sir William); 1730 indenture for land in Ormskirk from Edward Stanley 11th Earl of Derby; 1749 hand-written copy of a 1648 marriage settlement contract; 1767 Halmot Court indenture regarding West Derby property belonging to politician Sir Bamber Gascoyne of Childwall Hall, Lancashire, 1785 lease between Lord John Coleraine, his brothers William and George, and Thomas Masters, for land in Kempsford (The younger brother, George, who inherited the 4th Baronetcy after William’s death, had a reputation as a womaniser and gambler, who took part in the American Revolutionary Wars and became a great friend of the Prince Regent upon his return); 1788 & 1789 assessment of Church rates; 1793 contract regarding navigable securities in the Bedford area between George Fitzjohn and Caleb & Mary Hill; 1801 lease for a property in Covent Garden (including the uses and businesses which are not allowed to happen there such as melting of tallow or blacksmithing) between Mrs Ann Peacock and Mr John Le Jeune, and a further 1841 lease for Mrs Peacock also in Covent Graden; 1854 record of property obtained by Reverend Daniel Brent of Grendon under the Bounty of Queen Anne scheme (whereby the incomes of poorer clergy were augmented, mostly from land income), with officla blue stamp, illustration of the parcel of land, and red seal stamp; 1871 assignment for the Flying Scud beer house of 76 Rathbone Street, West Ham, Essex (now East London) between Edward Potter and Samuel Maynard; Abstract of an Act for Amendment of the Highways, chap. XLII, 1768 etc (approx. 50)
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