Reference
R6/2/1/1
Title
Copy Bargain & Sale
Parties:
(i) Ralph Norwich, late of Aspley Guise, esquire and Anne his wife;
(ii) Francis Bury of Beckerings Park [Ridgmont], esquire
Operative Part:
- (i) sold (a)-(t) to (ii) for "a certain competent sum"
Property:
(a) Manor of Aspley Guise with view of frankpledge and all messuages etc.;
(b) messuage in Aspley Guise late in occupation of Edward Sadler, deceased, late husband of Anne Norwich;
(c) one orchard, two gardens, two tofts, two closes of pasture adjoining (b) and containing 12 acres;
(d) Middle Pasture of 52 acres lately divided into two parcels;
(e) grove of woodland called Faulkner's Grove in Aspley Guise;
(f) Woodlands Closes of 14 acres;
(g) capital messuage with garden and orchard [entry damaged];
(h) close of 12 acres adjoining (g);
(i) pasture called [damaged portion] or Little Field of 26 acres;
(j) two closes of pasture called Poweges containing 10 acres;
(k) 14 acres of meadow and 120 acres of arable now or late in occupation of Thomas Chibnall, gentleman;
(l) messuage and 60 acres of pasture now or late in occupation of John Pancruss;
(m) messuage in Birchmore [Woburn] now or late in occupation of John Collins;
(n) 50 acres of arable and 20 acres of pasture in Woburn now or late in occupation of John Collins;
(o) 400 acres of woodland or underwood with soil in occupation of Thomas Chibnall;
(p) waste ground called The Warren in Aspley Guise with stock of conies
(ii) entitled to all deeds except those relating to:
- sale of 6 acres of heathland on Aspley Heath sold by (i) to Henry Char[d]ge of Wavendon [Buckinghamshire];
- messuage and lands lately held by William Farre the elder by copy and sold by (i) to William Farre the younger of Aspley Guise, husbandman;
- two messuages late in occupation of John Collins, Johan Allen, widow and Edmund Hardinge lately sold to [damaged portion] by Edward Sadler and Anne his wife;
- two parcels of arable land in field next to Holcot Millnes containing together one acre one half acre lying in Thorneton Furlong the other in Lines Croft Furlong;
- plot of land lying between messuages of Henry Ward and Ralph Baker;
- plot of ground with a lea at the end adjoining messuage some time in occupation of Jasper Hodson;
- plot of land lying between the Ryes Piece and Aspley Wood Corner next to Hogstie House containing half an acre; the last four plots all sold by Edward Sadler and Anne his wife to Edmund Hardinge;
- messuage with meadows and closes late held as copyhold by Martyn King;
- messuage late held as copyhold by Thomas King and in occupation of Edmund Tilcock;
- messuage late in occupation of Thomas Tyddesdale;
- 21 acres of arable and 6 acres of meadow lately belonging to messuage in which Edward Sadler dwelled now in occupation of Edmund Hardinge who purchased it from Ralph Norwich and Anne his wife;
- 6 acres of meadow in Broadmead now or late in occupation of John Spurling;
- Salford Pasture now or late in occupation of John Spurling ;
- parcel of meadow now or late in occupation of Henry Charge of Wavendon
- close of pasture called Blackwell of 18 acres lately conveyed by Ralph and Anne Norwich to Thomas King
- (ii) to receive rent from following leases
(q) 5 Jul 1578 from Edward and Anne Sadler to John [damaged portion] of Husborne Crawley of close called Carnishe[damaged portion] or Pigs Park of 60 acres some time in occupation of John Carter in Aspley Guise for 21 years at 5 per annum;
(r) 17 Feb 1590 from Ralph and Anne Norwich and Lee Sadler to Jaspar Hodson of Aspley Guise, husbandman of one messuage with close of land or pasture of one acre adjoining and of 5 acres, 1.5 swaths of meadow, pasture and arable in various places in Aspley Guise with common for 6 beasts or kine, 3 to be in the fen and 3 on the hills and common for 15 sheep for 21 years at 6/8 and 2 capons per annum;
(s) Feb [damaged portion] from Ralph and Anne Norwich to Robert Fitzhugh of Wavendon, gentleman of 8 acres of wood and heath on Aspley Heath and 24 acres of wood and heath adjoining for 5,000 years;
(t) 21 Feb 1590 from Ralph and Anne Norwich and Lee Sadler to Richard Tilcock of Aspley Guise and Agnes his wife of their house and land appertaining for 41 years at 6/3 per annum;
Witnesses:
- Richard Sutton; Clement Taylor; Thomas Hassould
Examined by William Shippard and William Lawson
Date free text
2 Nov 1590
Production date
From: 1578 To: 1590
Level of description
item