X440/387 & 388

Lease to Make a Tenant to the Precipe for Suffering Common Recovery

4 & 5 Nov 1777

From: 1777 To: 1777

i) George Hoy of Odsey, in Gilden Morden, Cambridgeshire, yeoman & wife Ann (nee Harris), only daughter heir & devisee in tail of property below mentioned, of Thomas Harris late of Baldock, deceased ii) John Thurgood of Baldock, maltster iii) James Farrer of Chancery Lane, London, gentleman iv) Oliver Farrer of Chancery Lane, London, gentleman recites: X440/383 whereas: Thomas Harris died leaving only Ann as his devisee & she (now Hoy) has attained 21 years. now: to bar all estates in tail i) convey to iii) to make tenant of freehold - moiety of 24 acres arable with barn in Holmside, Saffron Ground & cottage & 2 acres arable in Holme Piece [details as before] i) will levy fine to ii) to enure to use of iii) who will be tenant in recovery in which iv) will be demandant & which will be to uses as i) shall appoint, witness: William Nash, Thomas Wylde, William Finn (last two are clerks to Messrs Farrer)

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Hoy, George,
Hoy, Ann,
Harris, Ann,
Harris, Thomas,
Thurgood, John,
Farrer, James,
Farrer, Oliver

BUILDINGS & LAND USE, Odsey, yeoman, Baldock, maltsters, Holborn Chancery Lane, DEATH, freehold property, BIGGLESWADE, Biggleswade fields, arable, agricultural buildings, Biggleswade Langford Road, HOUSING, cottages