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Lease for 11 years; at annual rent of 36s.8d. 30 Aug. 1699 Bedford Corporation to Thos.Heyes, innholder, & Thos.Gurney, husbandman, overseers of St. Paul's, Bedford. -- 4 tenements in parish of St. Paul.

1699

From: 1699 To: 1699

viz: A messuage in a place called Bankside, abutting S. on the common way, and N. on the churchyard of St. Paul, with the Corporation tenement let to Henry Rushden on E., and the churchyard wall on W., (now inhabited by Dorothy Bonner & Sarah Simons, widows); also another in a place called the Fishmarket, (late in tenure of Mary Holcraft, widow, & now of Thos. Brightman), with an upper room of the Corporation on W. side of tho Fishmarket, let to Eliz. Gale spinster, lying on S., & another similar tenement let to John Lovering on N.; also another upper room (in tenure of Rich.Simons) in "the Sat[ur]day Butcher Row" over the Corporation tenement in tenure of Henry Robinson; and also all the said tenement (in ten. of Hen. Robinson) under the last, containing 2 rooms, abutting S. on the churchyard, & N. on the messuage of Thos. Rogers, with the Corporation tenement late in tenure of Robt. Berry on E., and of Mr. Thos. Rider in tenure of Edw.Cox on W. A few covenants. Witn: Thos. Chaplin & Ben.Haselden.

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Bedford Corporation,
Heyes, Thomas,
Gurney, Thomas,
Rushden, Henry,
Bonner, Dorothy,
Simons, Sarah,
Holcraft, Mary,
Brightman, Thomas,
Gale, Elizabeth,
Lovering, John,
Simons, Richard,
Robinson, Henry,
Rogers, Thomas,
Berry, Robert,
Rider, Thomas,
Cox, Edward,
Chaplin, Thomas,
Haselden, Benjamin

Bedford St.Paul, Overseers, non-agricultural leases, innholder, husbandman, widow, Bedford Fish Market, spinster, Bedford Butchers Row