• Reference
    Z1118/1/9/3
  • Title
    Admission - Manor of Leighton Buzzard alias Grovebury, Thomas Hill Mortimer, trustee for James Henry Leigh, farmer to St.George's Chapel, Windsor, Lord; Thomas Hill Mortimer, steward - reciting surrender out of court on 30 Oct 1816 of Benjamin Reeve of Leighton Buzzard, grocer and Mary, his wife by Jeremy Willis and James Clarke of: (a) cottage in Friday Lane, Leighton Buzzard with yard in front next to the lane on S in occupation of Edward Butcher, then Ezekiel Gurney, then William Tomms, now James Reeve; (b) part of yard lying behind (a) of 14 feet by 9 feet by 24.5 feet (noting abbutal of garden of William Tring and privy) recently fenced off from rest of yard by Benjamin Reeve; (c) barn of W side of (b) with privy (note of right of way over other half of yard late belonging to cottage surrendered to William Dickens of Leighton Buzzard, victualler) - Benjamin Reeve having been admitted to (a)-(c) on 29-30 Oct 1807 on surrender of John Cooper of Leighton Buzzard, gentleman and Mary Ann (formerly Mary Ann Firth, spinster), his wife and William Robinson Lawford and Catherine Elizabeth, his wife (formerly Catherine Elizabeth Firth, spinster); (d) bakehouse and barn or stable with loft over in Gigg Lane, alias Jeffs Lane, Leighton Buzzard since converted into a cottage in occupation of Widow James; - to use of Samuel Reeve, their son; - admission of Samuel Reeve
  • Date free text
    30 Oct-1 Nov 1816
  • Production date
    From: 1816 To: 1816
  • Level of description
    item