Reference
Z1013/1/2
Title
Covenant to levy a fine:
BETWEEN William Beckett of Bedford, brewer and Elizabeth his wife (one of the daughters of Thomas Bury, late of Clifton, yeoman, deceased), Samuel Hill of Clifton, yeoman and Alice his wife (another daughter of Thomas Bury, heretofore wife of William Meager) and Samuel Bury of Henlow, yeoman (son of John Bury, late of Clifton, yeoman, deceased)
AND John Thurgood of Gardlins[?], Southill, gentleman, Thomas Randall of Southill, yeoman, Edward Hills of Southill, yeoman and John Meager of Hexton [Hertfordshire], yeoman
FOR 79 paid to William Beckett and Samuel Bury by John Meager by direction of Alice Hill
CONCERNING messuage, cottage or tenement in Clifton in occupation of George Palmer and six acres of arable land dispersed in the fields of Clifton also in occupation of George Palmer with abuttals as in a terrier attached to a deed poll of 28 Apr 1614 made by John Swinglehurst and Thomas Swinglehurst of Clifton, husbandman and Anne Swinglehurst of Clifton, widow to George Bury of Clifton, yeoman, grandfather of Elizabeth and Samuel Bury being six acres of eight acres there mentioned which are still unsold, including items in a general words clause which may be specific as it mentions hemplands
WITNESSES Isaac Bedford, Thomas Brisco [mark] and Mark Randell
Date free text
15 Apr 1651
Production date
From: 1651 To: 1651
Level of description
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