• Reference
    L5/640
  • Title
    Conveyance (lease & release; copies): 1,700; 500; (i) Thos. Butcher, late of Cople, now of Bloomsbury; Jos. Harrington of same; (ii) Gertrude, Duchess of Bedford;)- who have agreed to purchase Robt. Palmer of Bloomsbury;) estate for 2,200; 1,700 to be repaid for 5/638; property as in 5/639; also messuage in Cople for many yrs. converted into 2 cottages, and one other messuage near above, occ. Sam. Haines, Th. Ashwell & Hen. Beal, with garden of 1 ac.; also 2 ac. in Cople occ. Robt. Wiltshire; Cople piece, 8 ac., now called Forster's, formerly occ. Th. Hidem, then Jn. Wiltshire, then Eliz. & Robt. Wiltshire; bought by Th. Butcher of Robt. Wiltshire & w. Mary and Jn. Spring & w. Eliz. 2 May 1759; also cottage & 1/2 ac. pasture, formerly used as hempland, late occ. Sam. Painter, now Jn. Stonbridge, in Cople, bought by same from Th. Middleton 21 Nov. 1768 for 68; also cottage with yard and orchard in Cople occ. Nich.Purser, bought by same from Mary Field, wid., 10 Dec. 1774, for 94.10.0; void messuage or toft in Dry Drayton, Cambs, with 12ac., dispersed in the fields, a close of 1 ac., adj. toft and 5 leys of pasture cont. 2 1/2 ac. bought by Robt. Butcher of Jn. Burr and Th. Laundy of Royston, Herts., maltster; witn. R. Ward, Ric. Shackleton.
  • Date free text
    22,23 January 1781
  • Production date
    From: 1781 To: 1781
  • Exent
    No. of pieces: 2
  • Level of description
    item