Title
Abstract of Title
of Hon Fra Henley Ongley, widow
to freehold land in open fields and meadows of Clifton
a) part of such lands
1) Mortgage in 2000 (by lease for 500 years)
1 Walter Rolt of Clifton Esq, mortgagor
Sir Wolstan Dixie Bart
Jn Oneby of Borough of Leicester
Jn Dixie and Thos Dixie of Grays Inn,
Middlesex, Esqs
2 Jasper Edwards of Lincoln's Inn, Middlesex
Esq (Mortgagee)
Arable lands and leys lying in common fields of
Clifton
(4 score acres)
Void on payment of 2120
13 June 1657
2) Assignment of 1)
1 Jasper Edwards
Walter Rolt
Jn Trice late of Godmanchester, Hunts
2 Jn Heron of Godmanchester Esq (Trustee)
above capital messuage etc
Consideration 1449 by Trice to Edwards
15 Nov 1660
[NB mention of Lease for 99 yrs to Margaret Trice
Mother of Jn Trice 14 Nov 1660]
3) Grant
1 Walter Rolt (real vendor)
Sir Wolston Dixie
Jn Oneby
Jn Dixie
Thos Dixie
2 John Trice
reversion and remainder on above lands
Consideration 4151 (paid by 2) to Rolt)
17 Nov 1660
4) Grant for 7 years (prob mortgage)
1 Jn Tryce
2 Wm Symcotts, student of Trinity College
Cambridge
Reversion on above lands
Consideration 1500
23 Ap 1664
5) Grant with Covenant to levy or fine
1 Jn Heron and Jn Tryce and Jane his wife
2 Jn Symcotts, of Christ Church, London, Grocer
term f 500 years above
Consideration 1000
30 Ap 1664
6) Fine
1 Jn Tryce and Jane his wife
2 Jn Symcotts
Messuage, 2 cottages, 2 barns, 2 stables, 1 dovehouse
2 gdns, 2 orchards, 80A of land, 12A of meadow,
30A of pasture, 13A of moorland, Clifton
(for Symcotts to hold for 493 yrs)
Trinity 16 Chas II [1664]
7) Agreement
1 Jn Symcotts
2 Wm Symcotts (who paid the purchase money)
that 1. was only trustee for 2. and permit Wm to
take the rents and on his death Wm's wife Mary in
lieu of her jointure
Power of 1 with consent of 2 to sell or exchange
2 May 1664
b) Other pt of such land formerly pt of Albone's Farm
1) Copy of Will of Walter Rolt
to loving friends Jn Altham, Jn Dixie both of Grays
Inn Middlesex, Esqs and Wm Abbis of Stotfold, Gent
as Trustees for Sale
Of all Manors, Messuages, lands and tenements,
whatsoever or wheresoever
(except one cottage etc in the possession of
Jas Pratt, his antient servant)
Made 7 Aug 1657
proved PCC 24 March 1661 [1662]
2) Lease and Release
1 Jn Dixie of Grays Inn Esq (executor of last will
and testament of Walter Rolt of Clifton, Esq, Dec'd)
2 Wm Symcotts of Clifton, Gent
Recites death of Altham and Abbis 'some short time
after the making of the will'
Piece of meadow [3P]
Piece of meadow containing 5P in Stanford Holme
Meadow
Piece of meadow [8P] lying in the Brook Meadow
Piece of Meadow [1/2P] in Red Cross Meadow
(then late in occ of Jn Dixie)
AND pieces of arable [43A] in occ of Wm Symcotts
All which premises were 'thentofore' in the occ
of Jn Albon and had been then lately called or
known by the name of Albon's farm and were in the
parish and fields of Clifton, Henlow, Polehanger,
Campton, Shefford, Meppershall and Stanford
Consideration 460
1 & 2 June 1681
c) Both a) and b) above
1) Will of Wm Symcotts to daus Penelope, Ann & Eliz
Symcotts equally between them
Freehold and copyhold cottages
Clifton, Henlow and Sandy
Residue of personal estate to 3 duas above
Made 10 May 1698
Proved PCC 21 Mar 1704
By 1704/5 Ann has married Jn Crawley [c 1705]
2) Marriage Settlement
1 Penelope Symcotts (marrying party)
2 Sam Smith of City of London, Bookseller
(marrying party)
3 Pemberton Bedford of Henlow, Clerk
Jn Smith of Lincoln's Inn, Gent (Trustees)
Third share of property late Wm Symcotts in
Clifton, Sandy and Henlow
With agreement to sell after marriage solemnised,
500 to be transferred from Trustees to Sam Smith
for 'own proper use', residue to be used to
purchase lands to produce 100 pa rents (or as
near as possible) to use of wife etc
5 Oct 1705
3) Will of Penelope Smith of Dunstable
to nephew Jn Crawley
all lands, tenements etc, residue of personal
estate to Jn and Thos Crawley
Made 7 Nov 1721
Proved Archdeaconry of Bedford 19 Oct 1726
4) Will of Eliz Symcotts
to Mrs Rebecca Ventris of Campton, Spinster
and Eliz wife of Wm Lyles of Clifton
Annuities of 3 pa out of messuage etc in
Clifton, or Henlow which she left to Thos Crawley,
of Dunstable, Gent and Ann his wife
Made 5 June 1735
Proved PCC 5 Oct 1741
5) Lease and Release
1 Sam Bedford of Southill, Clerk, son and heir of
Pemberton Bedford, late of Henlow, Esq
2 Thos Hodgetts of Ashwood Lodge, Staffs, Gent, Heir
at Law and Administrator of Benj Smith deceased
(Benj was son & heir & residuary devisee of
Sam Smith of City of London, Bookseller, Dec'd)
3) Thos Crawley of Dunstable, Gent, (bro and heir
at law of Jn Crawley of Dunstable, Gent, who was
devisee of real estate of Penelope Smith (see
above) and also executor of will of Eliz Symcotts)
Recites will of Sam Smith (d 19 Nov 1707)
leaving wife Penelope him surviving
residue to son Benj
appts bro Jn Smith executor
will made 23 Sept 1707
Proved by Thos Hodgetts (father of Thos above,
Jn Smith having renounced probate) nd
Recites death of Benj Smith April 1724 intestate
and without issue leaving as next of kin:-
a) Thos Hodgetts
b) Ann, wife of Jn Keeling thentofore wife of
Randolph Stevens of Worcester, Dec'd, Esq
c) Eliz wife of Sam Nott
(children of Ann Hodgetts, only sister of B Smith)
Letters of Admin granted on the death of Jn Crawley
4 Ap 1735 intestate
(leaving bro Thos him surviving)
Death of Eliz Symcotts
11 July 1741
Jn Smith died several years ago leaving Pemberton
Bedford surviving him, who afterwards died, leaving
Sam Bedford, him surviving
Differences arisen re right for Penelope Smith's share
of Wm Symcotts' Real and Personal estates
Action started. Nephews and nieces of Benj Smith
plaintiffs.
- v - Ann Crawley; Eliz Symcotts; Sam Bedford, Clerk;
Walter Noel and Thos Crawley
Cause heard 26 July 1742 before Lord High Chancellor
Arbitrators decide Thos Crawley should pay 150 in full
satisfaction for claim of nephews and nieces of Benj Smith
Third right and share of Penelope Smith in real
estate left by Wm
Consideration 150 (pd by 2 to 3)
7 & 8 Apr 1745
6) Deed Poll (Quit Claim)
of Walter Noel (administrator with will annexed)
of Sam Smith, late of London, Bookseller, (administered
by Thos Hodgetts of Prees, Salop, Clerk, deceased)
to Thos Crawley
actions against Thos Crawley
9 Ap 1745
7) Will of Thos Crawley
Manor of Lacies otherwise Clifton
AND Capital Messuage or Manor House
and farm with arable land and pasture,
Clifton, (occ of Jn Field)
AND 3 messuages, cottages or tenements in
Clifton occ of Wm Ward, Thos Coxe, Wm Rogers
and Ric Edwards
to Jn Lord of Drayton Parslow
made 14 Dec 1752
proved by PCC 17 Jan 1753
8) Will of Jn Lord, Rector of Drayton Parslow, Bucks
wife Mary Lord, Jn Gibberd (Gibbard) of
Sharnbrook & Newdigate Poyntz (son of
Newdigate Poyntz, then late of Hexton, Herts, Esq,
executors and trustees
Manor of Clifton, Beds messuages etc in Clifton
to wife Mary for life then JG and NP to be
trustees for sale
to pay 3 daus Mary, Eliz and Ann 300 each
200 to be equally divided between them to be
taken out of purchase money raised and to take
out 200 for son Jas Lord, remainder of money to
arise by sale of estate at Clifton to sons Jn Lord,
Chas Lord, Newdigate Lord, Alston Lord, Robt Lord,
and Jas Lord
Certain goods to son Wm Lord, residue to wife Mary
made 20 Mar 1773
proved Archdeaconry of Bedford
20 July 1778
9) Marriage Settlement
1 Jn Shepperd of London, Citizen and Baker
(Marrying Party)
2 Jn Lord, the son, of Mursley, Bucks, Gent
Rev Dan Slipston of Husborne Crawley, Clerk
Jn Gibbard (see above) (Trustees
1 to marry Ann Lord
Sums of money to which Ann Lord entitled
under Will of her father Jn
25 Mar 1780
10) Deed Poll
of Chas Lord, Captain in Regt of Somerset
Fencibles, then serving in Ireland
appts Rev Wm Lord, DD, attorney
to receive 578,11s 5d of purchase price of
Manor of Clifton to which entitled, exclusive
of share of bro Robt, dead, unm, intestate
16 Nov 1798
11) Letters of Administration
granted to Wm Lord as guardian and uncle
of Jane Alston Lord, dau, deceased of
Alston Lord
admin to AL's effects
PCC 12 Dec 1798
12) Letters of Administration
granted to Jn Lord, son of dec'd Robt Lord
admin to RL's effects
PCC 12 Dec 1798
13) Lease and Release
1 Rev Newdigate Poyntz of Tormarton, Glous,
Bachelor of Laws (surviving Trustee of
Jn Lord's Will) devisee in trust of will
of Thos Crawley of Dunstable, Bachelor
of Physic. Thos was son of Ann Crawley
(nee Simcotts)
2 Jn Lord the son (eldest son of Jn)
Chas Lord, Capt in Regt of Somerset Fencibles
Thos Lord of Camberwell Rd, Parish of St George,
Surrey, Artist
Newdigate Lord of Huntingdon St, Shoreditch,
Middlesex, Founder
Rev Wm Lord of Drayton Parslow, DD
[Administrator of goods etc of Alston Lord]
Jas Lord of Drayton Parslow, Clerk
Jn Thornton of Woburn, Woollen Draper and
Mary his wife
Jn Ricketts of Soulbury, Bucks, schoolmaster
and Eliz his wife.
Jn Shepperd and Ann his wife
3 Simpson Anderson of Lambs Conduit Street
in the parish of St George the Martyr
(purchaser)
Recites Marriage of Mary Lord, dau had
married Jn Thornton, Eliz married Jn Ricketts
and Ann with Jn Shepperd
each son entitled to 578, 11s 5d, each dau
366, 13s 4d.
4 several pieces of meadow ground being
Lammas gnd (4A)
a) 2 pieces in Stanford Holme one of 3P
and the other of 5P
b) piece in Brook Meadow (8P)
c) Piece in Red Cross Meadow (1/2P)
Clifton together with 43 A of arable
(formerly estate of Walter Rolt with
messuage belonging were called Albone's Farm
AND 80A of common field, arable, land and leys
formerly estate of Walter Rolt and afterwards
Jn Trice
AND those pieces of arable land lying
dispersedly in open and common fields
[122A 2R, vizt 36A 1R 0P lying in Shefford
Field]
8A in Little Field
33A 1R in Hitchin Field
27A in East Field
occ by Jn Arch
agreed to surr into hands of Manor of Henlow
Lanthony
piece of land (7A) formerly in occ of
Jn Field and then of Jn Arch in the East
Field of Clifton near the Gravel Pit there
Consideration 5100 pd by Simpson Anderson,
as apportioned above
13 & 14 Dec 1798
14) Declaration
under hands of Jn Lord, Dan Slipton,
Jn and Ann Shepperd (endorsed on Release of
14 Dec 1798 above)
Shepperd's acknowledgement received their share
14 Dec 1798
15) Certificate for Redemption of Land Tax
Commissioners with Simpson Anderson
Land Tax on Manor of Laces alias Clifton and
farm consisting of a capital messuage and
182A of meadow, pasture and arable land
and 3 cottages near adj
AND messuage, cottage or tenement with gdn
orchard etc
assessed 1798 at 17, 14s
6 June 1799
16) Certificate of Contract for Land Tax
(No 55823)
20 July 1799
17) Marriage Settlement by Lease and Release
1) Simpson Anderson
2) Ric Critchett of Queen Sq, Middlesex, Esq
3) Mary Critchett of same, spinster, (dau of 2)
by Sar his wife (marrying party)
4) Jas Campbell of Warnford Court, City of London, Esq
Thos Horsdon of George St, Hanover Sq,
Middlesex, Esq
Thos Brydges Hughes of Middle Temple, London, Esq
Ric Critchett the Younger of Queen Sq aforesaid
(the bro of 3) Trustees
said lands above
14 & 15 July 1800
18) Lease and Release
1) Jas Campbell, T B Hughes, R Critchett the
younger (marriage trustees)
2) Simpson Anderson and Mary his wife (nee Critchett)
3) Hon Sam Hen Ongley of Graffham, Hunts
[NOTE: 2nd son of Robert Ongley, 1st Baron Ongley
He was baptised 16 June 1774, m Frances daughter
of Sir Philip Monoux on 3 Oct 1804 and died in
1822. Information - Ongley Pedigree at front of
SL Catalogue]
Pieces of Lammas Gnd (4A):- 2 pieces in Stanford
Holme (one of which contains 3 P and the other 5P)
Piece in Brook Meadow contains 2P
Piece in Sweet Meadow (1P)
Piece in Dan Acre (2P)
Piece in Stockbridge Meadow (2P)
Piece in Red Cross Meadow (1.1/2P) with 43A of
arable land pt of Common field arable lands
and 80A of arable (as above)
All above lands immaterial to Ibbs title
underlined section below 'material' to Ibbs Title
AND pieces of arable land lying in open and
common fields of Clifton [122A, 2R 0P] by
estimation but then reputed to contain
127A 3R 0P, that is to say:-
36A 1R 0P in Shefford Field
7A 1R 0P in Little Field
33A 1R 0P in Hitchin Field
33A 0R 0P in East Field
18A residue in Hoe Field, then in occ of
Jn Arch
Clifton
Consideration 6100
17 & 18 Sept 1806
19) Will of Sam Hen Ongley
residue of personal estate after debts to
Fra Henley Ongley (wife)
Annuity of 20 pa to Servant Geo Mattin
Made 23 Sept 1812
Proved PCC 10 July 1822