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Manor of Biggleswade reciting that George Herbert,deceased, late brother of Nathaniel Vincent Herbert,held
- (yearly rent 8d) cottage in Shortmead Street,Biggleswade, adjoining a cottage once known as The Wrestlers, formerly belonging to John Robinson, Esq., and late to George Herbert
- close pasture or garden belonging (1r)
formerly in occupation of Richard Huckell, then John Randall,
late of William Albone and now of George Ibbott, Henry Dawes and George Westrope to which premises George Herbert was admitted tenant at Court
on 23 and 24 October on surrender of George Ibbott
-(1åd) part of wharf in Biggleswade
-(1s) messuage with compting house etc in Shortmead Street, Biggleswade
formerly in occupation of Denis Herbert and late of George Herbert
- (4d) messuage late in occupation of John Carrington and now of William Wright
- 1 cottage adjoining in occupation of John Cooper
- 2 cottages in occupations of Robert Mole and Edmund Arnold in Shortmead End, Biggleswade
- (4d) cottage in Shortmead End, Biggleswade, late in occupation of Thomas Grantham and now of John Bockwood
- (2d) The Black Swan, Shortmead Street, Biggleswade
- land adjoining in occupation of Richard Richardson
- cottage adjoining, made out of a stable, late of Thomas
Dalton and now of Thomas Langford, excisemen
- (2s) messuage in occupation of John Willis, woolstapler
- 2 cottages adjoining late in occupations of Thomas Osborn and William Richardson and now of John Storton and Samuel
Newman, in Shortmead Street, Biggleswade
- 2a meadow, part of close of 5a in Back Meadow, in Biggleswade
-(6d) remainder of said close
- The Salthouse, in occupation of James Keefe
- orchard or close pasture adjoining,late in occupation of George Herbert
- (1s 6d for whole) 8 undivided 1/9th parts of
--- cottage now divided into 2
--- close pasture adjoining in Shortmead Street, late in occupation of John Bolnhurst and Edward Saunders and now of John Bolnhurst and Robert Wood
--- right of common
--- other cottage in Shortmead Street,formerly in occupation of Richard Richardson and now of William Richardson
-(6s) new erected capital messuage etc in occupation of William Walker, Esq
- 2 cottages adjoining in occupations of George Ibbott and William Rhodes, in Shortmead Street
- close meadow or pasture lying behind and extending back to river
- 7r meadow in Long Mead otherwise Rhee Mead,in Biggleswade
E common
W river
- 2 pieces meadow (1a 2r) in Back Meadow, Biggleswade, formerly in tenure of William Hughes
- (1s 6d and 4d) Crown Inn, Biggleswade
- 1r ground, part used as garden and part as hogstye, and yard
adjoining to a Malting formerly of Richard Hide and afterwards of William Nightingale and now in occupation of William Grigg
-(6d) stable in Biggleswade
S or SE William Brunt and Crown Yard
E or NE estate John Downe and wife Ann
N or NW Back Lane
- slipe or piece land on part of which Crown Inn Stables are erected and other part used as yard and garden S or SE Back Lane and extending backwards to premises of
- W or SW Crown Inn garden
- (1åd) toft on Market Hill of Biggleswade, fronting Crown
Inn where shops previously burnt down stood
- (8d) toft where a malthouse formerly stood now laid into Crown Inn garden
- (2s 6?d,by apportionment) undivided moiety of
--- Swan Inn, near the Market Place, in occupation of William Crouch
- (1s 11d and 7åd) undivided moiety of
---land near Market Place now used as garden to Swan Inn, on part of which Queens Head Inn formerly stood
-(1åd) moiety of
--- messuage etc in Biggleswade, late in occuption of David Moses and now Mrs Gardner
--(2s by apportionment) cottage or malting at Langford End, adjoining Back Lane in occupation of Ellis Firby and Samuel Wells to all of which George Herbert was admitted tenant at Court on
25 and 26 October 1803, and on surrender and will of Denis
Herbert, his late father, deceased
- (1Zd and half of ?d) moiety of
--- 4 undivided 1/5th parts of
---stable and small piece ground in Biggleswade
adjoining Back Yard of Swan Inn, formerly part of garden in occupation of Richard Leach, then Richard Harman and late William Hughes
N said Back Yard
E & S remainder of said garden
W garden of William Smith to which said 4 x 1/5th parts Samuel Wells, brewer, and said George Herbert were admitted at Court on 23 and 24 October 1804 on surrender of William Tingay and others George Herbert made his will on 16 March 1808 and devised to brothers, Cornelius Pateman Herbert and Vincent Herbert, as tenants in common, all his property in Biggleswade, chargeable (with his other real estate and his personal estate) with payment of expenses and legacies George Herbert made a surrender to the use of his will and died on 21 April now Nathaniel Vincent Herbert is admitted tenant to one undivided moiety of property fine - 1/3rd of å part of said yearly rents (3s 10?d)