Reference
Z980/1/1/2
Title
Release by way of Conveyance
Parties:
(i) Bromsall Throckmorton of Langford Abbotts [Huntingdonshire], esquire and Elizabeth his wife;
(ii) Sarah, Dowager Duchess of Marlborough
Reciting:
- (i) was seized of customary estate of inheritance of (i)-(ab) being held of manors of Potton Much Manured, Potton Regis or Potton Rectory
Operative Part:
- (i) conveyed (a)-(h) to (ii) for 3,531/16/6
- (i) to surrender (i)-(ab) to use of (ii)
Property, all in Potton:
(a) messuage or tenement and farmhouse with barns, stables, brick dovehouse, orchard, garden, curtilage and close called Home Close of 5 acres; lay ground in common fields containing 2a 2r 0p; pieces of meadow containing 15 acres; pieces of arable containing 118a 2r 20p; late in possession of (i);
(b) messuage or tenement called The Bell Inn with barns, stables, outhouses and pieces of arable containing 20 acres; meadow ground containing 6 acres; in occupation of [blank] Norman;
(c) messuage or tenement and close of pasture of 6 acres in occupation of Thomas Trigg;
(d) pieces of arable land containing 95 acres; meadow of 3 roods in occupation of [blank] Pedley;
(e) pieces of arable land of 30 acres in occupation of [blank] Read;
(f) pieces of arable land of 31a 2r 0p; meadow of 3a 3r op in occupation of Nathaniel Allerton;
(g) pieces of arable of 50 acres; meadow of 5a 2r 0p in occupation of John Edwards;
(h) cottages and yards in occupations of [blank] King, [blank] Sparkes, [blank] Smith, [blank] Thorn, [blank] Daffiney and [blank] Rawlings;
(i) messuage formerly of Robert Collins;
Copyhold Land: Manor of Potton Regis; (i) admitted 14 May 1736
(j) messuage formerly of Martha Simpson;
(k) messuage and close of pasture formerly of [blank] Carye;
(l) 40 acres of land formerly of Thomas Cooley;
(m) lands formerly of John Harper;
(n) messuage in King Street formerly of Thomas Bowtell;
(o) Berry Hill Close with 50 acres land and 3 acres meadow formerly of John Cooley;
(p) 28 acres of land formerly of Abraham Clerk;
(q) messuage in King Street, near Church Lane;
(r) 1.5 acres of meadow formerly of Langhorne bounded: N Church Causeway; E common brook
Copyhold land: Manor of Potton Much Manured; (i) admitted 14 May 1736
(s) lands, leys and meadow formerly of Thomas Sheppard;
(t) 40 acres of land and meadow, formerly of Thomas Chambers, then Owen Bromsall;
(u) 40 acres, formerly of Thomas Cooley, then Owen Bromsall;
(v) lands and tenements formerly of John Harper;
(w) Berry Hill Close of 50 acres of land and 3 acres of meadow formerly of John Cooley [probably same as [o] above]
Copyhold land: Manor of Potton Rectory; (i) admitted 14 May 1736
(x) lands, leys and meadows formerly of Thomas Sheppard [probably same as [s] above];
(y) messuage sformerly of Thomas Lettice;
(z) lands formerly of John Harper;
(aa) 2 acres of meadow, formerly of Francis Austin;
(ab) Berry Hill Close with 50 acres of land and 3 acres of meadow formerly of John Cooley [probably same as [o] and [w] above]
Covenant:
- by (i) to levy a fine sur conizance de droit come ceo;
- that neither (i), his late father Robert Throckmorton nor John Bromsall of Hemingford Abbotts [Huntingdonshire] had done anything to prevent proper conveyance
Witnesses:
- James Stephens;
- Henry Wood;
- Edward Rudd;
- Henry Raven
Date free text
15 May 1736
Production date
From: 1736 To: 1736
Level of description
item