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(i) Thos. How & w. Susannah
(ii) Wm. Chew
£300 to be retained by (ii) and paid with int @ 4½ at death of Eliz. How, wid.] --- cap. mess. or farm house, Cowridge End, occ. (i) --- closes belonging:- - close (1ac), (ii) one side, lane from C. End to Round Green on other. - Grove Close (3ac) abtng. on the orchard, eight acres close and the sd. lane - Watsullins close or spring (6ac) abtng. on River Lane & the Lye Fld. - Couzen Croft (8ac), (ii) one side, and Polts Bradcroft & Lye Close on other, abtng. Lye Fld. - Little Lye Close (2½ac), abtng. Lye Fld & Couzen Croft. - Polts Bradcroft (6ac), abtng. Couzen Croft & Three Acres Close. - The Lye Close (4ac) adj. the orchard. - Three Acres Close and Spring (5ac), abtng Polts Bradcroft and lane from Round Green to Mix Hill. - Eight Acres Close, abtng. on close of Thos. Marsome & highway from C. End to Round Green - Hicksfield Close (5ac) - Runnings Close - Stockings Close, abtng. on land of Jn. Crawley Esq. & Nathan Southern. --- several pieces of arable, flds. of Luton, Stopsley & Biscott:-
Bridge Field, Luton - ½ ac. abtng. Hitchin-Luton highway & land of Sir Jn. Napier, Bt. - 1½ac nr. Stockholme Bridge Hedges, Wm. Chalkley one side, Mr. Ettrick on other, abtng. River Lane. - 4ac. abtng. Luton-Bedford highway & River Way
Bisot Field - 3½ac abtng. on meadow ground next the river and on the sand pits, & land of Mr Iremonger - 2 swaths of grass to be cut yearly from the meadow ground adj. the last piece, the full breadth of the piece. - meadow ground, the full breadth of a piece belonging to Sam. Chaulton's piece in Stopsley Fld. on the other side of the river, opposite the 3½ac piece.
Stopsley Field. - 5ac abtng. Luton-Barton highway & meadow shooting down to the rive, Thos. Marsome one side - 4ac abtng on same meadow. - piece of meadow shooting from this piece to the river and as broad as both ends of the sd. 2 pieces. - ½ac (headland), between Biscot & Stopsley fld. - 1½ ac abtng. Luton-Barton highway, Sam. Chaulton one side. - piece of meadow next Sam. Chaulton, the breadth of the meadow from S. Chaulton's land down to the river. - 4 swathes of meadow & the ground on which the grass grows, abtng land of Thos. Bean. - ½ac abtng. Sam. Chaulton & Luton-Barton rd. - 1ac, abtng land. of S. Chaulton & Thos. Bean - 3r abtng land. of Thos. Groome & shooting down to Creakes Hill. - 3r ditto.
Stopsley Little Field - 3r shooting on Hexton Way, Thos. Groome one side - 3r abtng land of Fra. Pigott & shooting upon Biscot fld. - ½ac shooting down to the river, tog. with meadow ground from the end of the ½ac to the river, the breadth of the ½ac.
Neals Hillfield, Stopsley - 1ac shooting into Bedford road, Mr. Ettrick one side. - ½ac shooting down to Hexton Way.
Lye Field, Stopsley - 1ac., Thos. Groome one side, Lye Spring on other.
Oxey Field, Stopsley. - ½ac, Mr. Marsome one side, Mr. Roberts the other.
Hicks Field, Stopsley - Hicks Field Piece (6ac), Hicksfield close one side, (ii) on other.
Stocking Field, Stopsley -- 10 ac. abtng on land of Mr. Roberts, late enclosed & on River Lane Way next River Lane. All occ. Matt. Gutteridge & Thos. Swain.
Covt. to levy a fine. [Reciting X277/11,17, and mortgage, 1 Aug, 1705 (demise), £100, 1000 yrs (i) Wm. How (ii) Jn. Pettet, Chilthorne Greene, Luton, blacksmith Of part of the premises
Mortgage 5 Jan, 1705/6 £45, 1000 yrs (i) T. How. (ii) Thos. Knight, Luton, joiner Part of the premises.]
Assignment of terms in trust for (ii) to attend inheritance Wns. Dan. Marshe, Jn. Rowley, Matt. Gutteridge, Robt. Denton.