BorBE7/2/68

Counterpart lease for 11 years: (1) The Corporation of the Town of Bedford (2) John Sugar the elder, of the parish of St Peter Martin, Bedford, husbandman. Lease by (1) to (2) for 11 years from Michaelmas next of all those several pieces and parcels of arable land (together 4 acres). Two acres of said tenement of six selions in Windmill Field, Bedford: North - land late of Mr ... Taylor, and now of Richard Bell, esquire; South - land of the said Corporation, now in occupation of Mrs Dorothy Mills; East - land of Mr John Hawes, now in occupation of Mr Thomas Field. The other two acres consisting of six other selions in Conduit Field, Bedford: North - land belonging to the Fryars Farm; South - land of the Corporation in occupation of Mrs Ann Okely; West - on Bidenham Balk. Annual rent: 36s. Witnesses: Thomas Cawne, Town Clerk, Richard Lovesey. Signature: John Sugars

28 September 1749

From: 1749 To: 1749

Lands first in occupation of Thomas Randall late of Bedford, innholder, deceased, and afterwards let by Corporation to John Bardolph, gentleman, late one of the Aldermen, deceased, by lease dated 24 July 1736, since assigned to (2), and premises now in occupation of (2).

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Sugar, John,
Taylor,
Bell, Richard,
Mills, Dorothy,
Hawes, John,
Field, Thomas,
Okely, Ann,
Cawne, Thomas,
Lovesey, Richard,
Sugars, John,
Randall, Thomas,
Bardolph, John

husbandman, BIDDENHAM, Town Clerk, St. Peter de Merton Bedford, innholder, gentleman, alderman