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Collapse BOX1 - Demises, Deeds, Indentures, Leases, Oaths, Sales Particulars, etc.BOX1 - Demises, Deeds, Indentures, Leases, Oaths, Sales Particulars, etc.
1 - Lease for 31 years at £14 pa. Robert Bernard of Huntingdon, sergeant at law, to the major, etc.
2 - Lease for 11 years at £29 pa. Major Alderman to Leonard Barringham of Huntingdon, miller. The Huntingdon water mills with Broomholme Close and the Windmill Hill.
3 - Lease for 21 years at £30 pa. Mayor, etc to Thomas Warner of Huntingdon, gentleman. Watermills, etc.
4 - Lease (of lease and release). Ann Hales of Huntingdon, spinster, one of the daughters and devisees of the last will of Mary Hales of Huntingdon, widow, deceased, and surviving sister of Mary Hales of Huntingdon, spinster, deceased, and sister and devisee of the last will of John Hales of Huntingdon, inn holder, deceased, to mayor, etc.
5 - Mortgage (by demise for 1000 years) for £247 8s 6d. Mayor, etc to Hugh Ferrar of Huntingdon, gentleman, one of the alderman.
6 - Indenture of covenants to shut down sluices and floodgates belonging to Brampton Mills to enable tenants of Huntingdon Mills to scour out Bromholme and Portholme Brooks. Henry Dobson of Godmanchester, miller, tenant and occupier of Brampton Water Corn Mills by direction of Earl of Sandwich, owner of the Mills, to mayor, etc.
7 - Assignment of mortgage of 28 July 1777 (Box1/5). Edward Hughes late of the parish of St Andrew Holborn, but now of Piccadilly in the liberty of Westminster, colourman, and Rosetta his wife, formerly Rosetta Ferrar, granddaughter and residuary legatee of the will of Hugh Ferrar, deceased, to Thomas Fowler, late of Piccadilly, colourman, but now of Blackfriars Road in the parish of Christ Church Surrey, gentleman.
8 - Oaths for the inclosure commissioners for Stukeley (Charles Berkeley, John Burcham and Alexander Watford) sworn at Huntingdon.
9 - Lease for 21 years at £130 5s 0d pa. Mayor Samuel Holden of Buckden, farmer. Watermills.
10 - Assignment of lease of 14 May 1814 (Box1/9). Samuel Holden to Thomas Langley of Huntingdon, miller.
11 - Mortgage (by demise for 500 years) for £160. William Woodstone of Huntingdon, yeoman, to the mayor, etc. 2 messuages or tenements in Knighton's Yard in St Benedict's Huntingdon, with large barn and out buildings adjoining, now in occupation of self and William Doe.
12 - Counterpart of lease for 99 years at £6 pa. Mayor, etc to James Malam of Huntingdon, civil engineer. A parcel of land (120ft x 120ft) adjoining the River Ouse at Mere Dyke, being part of Mill Common, Huntingdon, and the buildings and works for the manufacture of gas.
13 - Deed of covenant for the repair of certain bridges across Bromholme and Portholme Brooks and flood gates between Portholme and Watermill Close and for the cleansing of Bromholme and Portholme Brooks. Earl of Sandwich, purchaser of the Huntingdon Mills, to mayor, etc.
14 - Mortgage for £1000. Mayor, etc to John George Green of Buckden, esquire, and Reverend John Wheeldon of Market Street in the County of Hertford, clerk, the yearly rent of £55 payable to the mayor, etc, as a result of a lease for 999 years made to the County on 25 March 1840, of the piazzas or cloisters surrounding the Court Hall.
15 - Lease for 99 years from 11 October 1840 at £3 10s 0d pa for Lot 1 and £3 5s 0d pa for Lot 2. Mayor, etc to William Bale Cowley of Huntingdon, builder. Two pieces of building ground (30ft x 138ft and 30ft x 130ft) at the north end of the town and the 3 dwelling houses, 2 stables and chaisehouse which he has recently erected there.
16 - Lease for 99 years from 11 October 1840 at £3 5s 0d pa for Lot 3 and £2 10s 0d pa for Lot 4. Mayor, etc, to Charles Raikes Maile of Huntingdon, carpenter. Two pieces of building ground (30ft x 120ft and 30ft x 113ft) at the north end of the town and the 3 dwelling houses (including one called The Carpenters Arms), 2 cottages and outbuildings which he has recently erected there.
17 - Mutual leases (2 copies) for 20 years at £50 pa. Reverend Henry Augustus Maule of Godmanchester, clerk, master of the Hospital of St John in the borough of Huntingdon to the mayor, etc. 28a 3r 22p land, part of the New Pasture, in parish of St John Huntingdon, bounded on north by remainder of the New Pasture, on west by Woolley Way, on south by the Common and Quails Meadows and on east partly by a close in the occupation of George Betts Pumfetts.
18 - Indenture of return of Major General Peel to Parliament.
19 - Assignment of mortgage of 24 June 1840 (Box1/14). John George Green with the consent of Reverend John Samuel Green of Wooler, Northumberland, clerk, sole surviving executor of the will of Wheeldon, deceased, to William Bowyer of Buckden, merchant.
20 - Indenture of return of Major General Peel and Thomas Baring esquire to Parliament.
21 - Indenture of return of Lieutenant General Peel to Parliament.
22 - Indenture of return of Thomas Baring, esquire, to Parliament.
23 - Lease for 14 years at £2 2s 0d pa. Elizabeth Veasey of Huntingdon, widow of David Veasey of Huntingdon, esquire, deceased, and tenant for life of the land under her late husband's will, and Reverend Francis Gerald Vesey of Huntingdon, clerk, devisee in fee in reminder of expectant upon the decease of Elizabeth under the will of the land, to the mayor, etc.
24 - Mortgage for £300. Mayor, etc to secretary of the public works loan commissioners, the borough fund and the rates to be raised. (Money to be used for providing proper bathing accommodation for the borough).
25 - Mortgage for £3500 and further advances and exceeding therewith £5000. Mayor, etc, acting as an urban sanitary authority, to the secretary of the public works loan commissioners, the borough fund and the rates to be raised. (Money to be used for the works of water supply.) Endorsed: paid off.
26 - Mortgage for £600 (marked as 2nd loan). Mayor, etc, acting as an urban sanitary authority, to the secretary of public works loan commissioners, the district fund and the general district rates to be levied (for the works of water supply). Endorsed: paid off.
27 - Demise for 21 years at £10 pa. Earl of Sandwich to the corporation of the town of Huntingdon, liberty, licence and easement to maintain, use and hold a water pipe or main with subsidiary works under the meadow lands of the Earl around Bromholme Brook to the west of the town.
28 - Reconveyance (re above mortgages of £55 annual rent payable on the lease of piazzas surrounding Court Hall - see Box1/14 and 19). William Bowyer of Buckden, merchant, to mayor, etc.
29 - Reconveyance. William Cater Bull of 16 Regents Park Terrace, Gloucester Gate, County Middlesex, gentleman, as personal representative of Emanuel Cater Bull, to mayor, etc. All the premises demised by a mortgage of 29 April 1857 to William forenamed and Francis Cooper Armstrong, and assigned by indenture of 6 March 1873 to William Foreman and Edward Lutt and by indenture of 17 August 1874 to Emanuel Cater Bull.
30 - Mortgage for £400. Mayor, etc, acting as the urban district council to John Hampton Hale, Charles Barclay, Francis Augustus Bevan and Alexander Lawrie, all of No. 1 Old Broad Street in the City of London, esquires, the trustees of the Assurance Fund of the Imperial Life Insurance Company, a proportion of the district general rate. (Money to be used in erecting a mortuary and post-mortem room).
31 - Demise for 21 years at £10 pa. Earl of Sandwich to the corporation as in demise of 4 April 1882 (see Box1/27).
32 - Transfer of mortgage of 10 January 1901 (see HBOX1/30). Hale, etc all now of No. 1 Bartholomew Lane in the City of London, by the Alliance Assurance Company Ltd of No. 1 Bartholomew Lane.
33 - Transfer of mortgage of 13 May 1886 for securing £1630 (of which £941 5s 8d only remains due). Charles Barclay, esquire, Francis Augustus Bevan, esquire, John Hampton Hale, esquire, and Alexander Lawrie, esquire, all of 1 Bartholomew Lane in the City of London, trustees of the Imperial Life Assurance Fund, to the Alliance Assurance Company Ltd of the same address, the rates assigned by the mortgage.
34 - Transfer of mortgage of 13 May 1886 for securing £800 (of which £461 19s 5d only remains due). Charles Barclay, esquire, Francis Augustus Bevan, esquire, John Hampton Hale, esquire, and Alexander Lawrie, esquire, all of 1 Bartholomew Lane in the City of London, trustees of the Imperial Life Assurance Fund, to the Alliance Assurance Company Ltd of the same address, the rates assigned by the mortgage.
35 - Bundle of papers including papers from local government board by town clerk, Huntingdon, letters from secretary of Marshall Bros Ltd, copy of circular re Housing, Town Planning, etc Act 1909, abstract of accounts of treasurer to borough of Huntingdon, 1910-1911, accounts and calculations re proposed purchase of Fountain Hotel, making of a new road and proposed erection of a public hall.
36 - Bundle of papers relating to the sale of Spring House on the Spring or Horse Common, Huntingdon, by the mayor, etc.
37 - Instruction from council to town clerk re Cromwell House Estate - to take steps to complete purchase of land leading from Ermine Street to Toby's trunk from Messrs F.B. Thackery and Co Ltd. Refers to proposed scheme to make new street from Ermine Street to St Germaine Street and to acquire disused Huntingdon Militia barracks for the purposes of artisans' dwellings. nd (1913?)
38 - Mortgage for £1164. Mayor, etc to the secretary of the public works loan commissioners, the district fund and the general district rates. (Money to be used for purposes of water supply). Endorsed with note of repayment 26 September 1935.
39 - Mortgage for £600. Mayor, etc to the secretary of the public works loan commissioners, the district fund and the general district rates. (Money to be used for purposes of water supply). Endorsed with note of repayment 29 September 1932.
40 - Mortgage for £4400. Mayor, etc to the secretary of the public works loan commissioners, the district fund and the general district rates. (Money to be used for purposes of street improvement). Endorsed with note of repayment 1 October 1930.
41 - Mortgage for £4200. Mayor, etc to the secretary of the public works loan commissioners, the district fund and the general district rates. (Money to be used for purposes of street improvement). Endorsed with note of repayment 29 September 1932.
42 - Mortgage for £229. Mayor, etc to the secretary of the public works loan commissioners. (Money to be used for purposes of street improvement). Endorsed with note of repayment 23 March 1933.
43 - Mortgage for £160. Mayor, etc to Annie Carlton of No. 20 Ermine Street, Huntingdon, spinster, the district fund and the general district rates. (Money to be used for purchase of land by Miss Carlton). Endorsed: Receipt for repayment signed by Miss Carlton 14 November 1930.
44 - Mortgage for £5050. Mayor, etc to the secretary of the public works loan commissioners, the district fund and the general district rates. (Money to be used for purposes of street improvement and for purposes of water supply). Endorsed with note of repayment 9 October 1940.
45 - Mortgage for £175. Mayor, etc to the secretary of the public works loan commissioners, the general rate and the general rate fund. (For purposes of grants under sections of the Housing, etc Act). Endorsed with note of repayment 1 October 1950.
46 - Mortgage for £500. Mayor, etc to the secretary of the public works loan commissioners, the general rate and the general rate fund. (For purposes of water supply). Endorsed with note of repayment 11 July 1947.
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