AD243

Release by way of conveyance: - Ralph Hough, of Kingston-on-Thames, in the county of Surrey, esquire, and Ursula his wife, to John Eston, of Bedford, esquire, of a messuage lately erected, farm, and tenement in Harrowden, in the parish of Cardington, late in the occupation of Robert Wilt- sheire, yeoman, and heretofore in that of John Stretts, an 'ancient messuage' of farm-house in Fenlake, in the same parish, and various closes of meadows and pasture ground to the same belonging ; a meadow ground on Elstoe Meadow containing about two acres ; sundry arable lands and 'ley ground,' contain- ing one hundred and sixty acres, lying 'dispersed' in the common fields of Cardington, Elstoe and Bedford ; certain closes of pasture called Benyons otherwise Bunnyons, containing twenty acres ; and a cottage at Fenlake formerly in a tenure of John Knott and afterwards in that of the said Robert Wiltsheire. Attached is a schedule of the deeds, etc., concerning the tithe of (amongst other things) the messuages, cottages, etc., conveyed by the abovesaid Ralph and Ursula Hough to the above said John Eston ; the earliest being a fine levied in the Michael- mas term, 15 James I. (Signature and seals.)

2 Jul 1692

From: 1618 To: 1692

English

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Hough, Ralph,
Hough, Ursula,
Barton, Ursula,
Eston, John,
Wiltsheire, Robert,
Stretts, John,
Knott, John

yeoman, Cardington farms, Eastcotts farms, tithes, Eastcotts Harrowden, EASTCOTTS, CARDINGTON, Fenlake, ELSTOW, Elstow fields, BEDFORD, Eastcotts fields, Cardington fields