Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    HN2/B1/4
  • Title
    Indenture to allow receipt of rents etc during rest of the term and then to the heirs of Edward Blofield
  • Date free text
    14 June 1641
  • Production date
    From: 1641 To: 1641
  • Scope and Content
    1) John Warner of Wilshamsteed, gent, Richard Sugers of Marston, yeoman 2) Elizabeth Blofield of Flitwick, widow, late wife of Edward Blofield of Flitwick, gent, deceased recites - deed of 12 December 1639 in consideration of 10 shillings paid to John Highlord, Edward Ditchfield, Hymfry Clarke and Francis Mosse citizens of London by 1) and £300 paid by 1) to Robert Bateman, chamberlaine of the city of London to the use of the mayor, commonalty and citizens of London did sell - manor of Flitwick and Malden with rights and appurtenances and all rents of assisse of the free tenants in Flitwick amounting to 18 shillings 11 pence a year and all rents of assisse of the free tenants in Malden amounting to 3 shillings and one penny a year, all lands, tenements and hereditaments customary in Flitwick & Malden and all those rents of the copyholders amounting to £4 19 shillings. - parcel of land in East Field in Flitwick - 18 acres of land and meadow in Flitwick - parcel of meadow late in the tenure or occupation of William Button and then or late before in the tenure of Richard Button gent of the yearly value of 21 shillings 6 pence. - 2 pyghtles of land and pasture and 36 acres of land and pasture in the town and fields of Flitwick then or late in the occupation of Anthony Cave gent yearly value of 12 shillings 2 pence. - land and tenements in Flitwick late in the tenure of occupation of diverse persons of yearly value of £3 9shillings 5 pence - all those cottages lately built upon the waste of the manor of Flitwick then or late in the tenure or occupation of James Hist, yearly value 4 shillings - all those other cottages lately built upon the waste then or late in the tenure or occupation of William Jackson, yearly value 5 shillings. - manorial rights - Except East towne mill and 48 acres in Flitwick great and little woods, all lands heretofore inclosed in honor of Ampthill , 13 s 4 p for hidage & other dues from the town etc to 1) in fee farm for ever at yearly rent to king of £11 3s 1d - Edward Blofield, husband of Elizabeth was in treaty with John Highlord, Edward Ditchfield, Humfry Clarke & Francis Mosse for the purchase of their part of the said manor in the possession or occupation of Edward Blofield at the time of his death and for the procuring of recited indenture of grant to John Warner & Richard Sugers. Elizabeth Blofield completed the treaty and procured the indenture of grant. Now this indenture that for the rest of the term of 99 years they will allow Edward Bofield son and heir of Edward Blofield deceased the rents and profits of the part of the manor in the possession or occupation of Elizabeth Blofield during his life and after the expiration of the term and the death of Edward Blofield the son to the lawful heirs of Edward the son. Signed John Warner and Richard Suger (seal) 14 June 1641 Annotated in later hand ‘This Trust Deed shews that part of the Manor of Flitwick and Malden belonged to Mrs Blofield whose son devised it to his widow the wife of Saml Rhodes Esq & Mother of Benjamin Rhodes Esq who devised it to Dr Dell who devised it to Mrs Brooks in Tail. The Heirs of the surviving Trustee of the Term of 99 years held courts quasi trustees till 1667 & afterwards conveyed the Manor, as if they had been seized of the Fee of it to the Honeywoods, Peter Honeywood devised it with the advowson of the vicarage and several parcels of land to the Cottons who sold it as if they had a good Title; upon this title, so defective, Lord Ossory it is presumed purchased and sold to the Duke of Bedford. 55 years elapsed between the last court holden by John Bedcott as Lord of the Manor, quasi Trustee, and the expiration of the Lease for 99 years in 1722. This might make Bedcott’s Heirs forget that they were not Trustees of a Term and occasion their acting as if they had been Tenants in Fee, whereas all their Interest was at an end on the expiration of the Lease in 1722, when this Deed enured to the purchasers of the Reversion of the Manor now become a Freehold in them.’
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