Reference
R6/2/1/11
Title
Feoffment
Parties:
(i) St.John Thomson of Husborne Crawley, esquire with Richard Cooper of Newport Pagnell [Buckinghamshire], draper and Richard Mowse of North Crawley [Buckinghamshire], yeoman acting as trustees;
(ii) William, Earl of Bedford, Richard Stone, late of Ridgmont, esquire, Henry Chester of Lidlington, esquire, Thomas Snagg of Millbrook, esquire, William Stone of Aspley Guise, gentleman
Operative Part:
- St.John Thomson, for love of his wife and as a jointure for her (she having joined him in conveying her previous jointure away) and a portion for their daughters and younger sons enfeoffed (a)-(l) to (ii)
Property:
(a) messuage with orchards, yards and backsides adjoining in Husborne Crawley;
(b) 5 acres of pasture adjoining (a) formerly in occupation of Richard Sadler then Henry Sadler his son, late of Mark Grey, gentleman;
(c) cottage in Husborne Crawley with garden, yard, orchard, backside and little inclosed pightle of pasture;
(d) 2 acres of leys or sweard ground adjoining (c) formerly in occupation of Thomas Smyth, now of Henry Sadler;
(e) 6a 3r 0p of arable in occupation of Thomas Keenes;
(f) 4a 3.5r op of sweard dispersed in common fields of Husborne Crawley
(a)-(f) formerly mortgaged by St.John Thomson and his father St.John Thomson to Humphrey Monoux of Wootton and reconveyed by him to (i);
(g) Great Pasture of 30 acres in Aspley Guise formerly in occupation of Thomas Dennett, now of Henry Budd abutting: N on Broadmead; S on pasture called Middle Pasture or Little Pasture of Edmund Hardinge; E on The Fenn; W on highway leading towards Broadmead
(h) Aspley Wood with two parcels of woodland called Faulkners Corner and Foxborough Hill adjoining containing 137a 0r 14p;
(i) messuage in Husborne Crawley Church End in occupation of Christopher Coates;
(j) pightle of two acres adjoining (i);
(k) one acre anciently belonging to (i) called Throughout Acre;
(l) 15 acres of arable and leys in Husborne Crawley conveyed to St.John Thomson by Richard Impey and now held with (k)
Habendum:
- to (ii) in trust to following uses:
- to St.John Thomson for life;
- remainder to Katheryn his wife;
- (ii) to raise from (a)-(l) 500 each for Lucy and Judith, younger daughters and Francis, younger son of St.John and Katheryn Thomson in full recompense for their portions from Manor and Rectory of Little Linford [Buckinghamshire];
- (ii) to raise from (a)-(l) 400 each for any children as yet unborn of St.John and Katheryn Thomson in which case the portions of Lucy, Judith and Francis should be lowered to 400 each;
- to St.John Thomson, eldest son of St.John and Katheryn Thomson and his issue;
- in default of issue of St.John Thomson the younger to use of Francis Thomson and his issue;
- in default of issue of Francis Thomson to use of St.John Thomson the elder for ever
Witnesses:
- John Langford;
- Fulk[?] Senhouse;
- James Johnson;
- John Hardy;
- Mark Slingsby
Endorsed with consent of Thomas Hackett and Thomas Kilpin
Date free text
29 Sep 1659
Production date
From: 1659 To: 1659
Level of description
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