Scope and Content
Parties:
(1) John Ivory Talbot of Laycock [Wiltshire], esquire;
(2) Charles, Lord Bruce, Baron of Whorlton [Yorkshire] (son and heir of Thomas, Earl of Ailesbury);
(3) Daniel, Earl of Winchelsea & Nottingham;
(4) James, Duke of Chandos; Rt.Hon.Henry Bridges, esquire (only son of Duke of Chandos and called Marquis of Carnarvon) and Mary, his wife (elder daughter of Charles, Lord Bruce);
(5) Allen, Lord Bathurst, Baron of Battlesden; Benjamin Bathurst, esquire (eldest son of Allen, Lord Bathurst) and Elizabeth, his wife (younger daughter of Charles, Lord Bruce;
(6) John St.John, esquire (second son of Lord Viscount St.John, Baron of Battersea); Thomas Osborne of St.George the Martyr [Middlesex], gentleman; Henry Arthur Herbert of Ockley Park [Shropshire], esquire; John Jeffreys of St.George's, Hanover Square [Middlesex], esquire
Operative Part:
- (6) lent 3,000 to (4) on security of (a)-(f)
- (6) lent 13,000 to (5) on security of (a)-(f)
Property:
(a) Manors of Maulden Ragons, How End and Dame Ellins:
(b) mansion house and Houghton Park, alias Dame Ellingsbury, with closes etc. called King's Mead, Carters, Thomlins, Bushy Close and Buryfield with wood called King's Wood alias Dame Ellingsbury Grove;
(c) advowsan of Maulden church;
(d) Wards Farm with tenements called Hitherbury Pasture, Osmonds Close, Kings Mead, Beales Farm, Stoughtons Farm, Inward Stonefield, Outward Stonefield, Hill Close, Seven Acre Close, Square Close, Tufted Close, Hallow Close, Hanging Close, Long Close, Berrystead Farm, Dudsons Grounds, Horsey Piece, Buryfield, Limbersey alias Limersey all bought from Nicholas Denton, esquire; Stanbridges Farm, bought from Daniel Williams; parcel of ground purchased from Thomas Page; 7 acres of land purchased from Samuel Rhodes, esquire; parcel of ground purchased from John Auger; Sadleirs Estate, Ampthill;
(e) Manor of Ruxox alias Roxox;
(f) messuage, fields and common rights in Flitwick purchased from Elizabeth Scarburgh