AD1934-35

Conveyance (Lease & Release): £37,000.

16, 17 May 1774

From: 1774 To: 1774

(i) Jos. Butler of Berks. gent. (ii) H.J. Pye (iii) Chas. Pye (iv) Anth. Pye and Wm. Ward (v) Eleanor Maule wid. of Geo. (vi) Sir Walden Hanmer of Flint, bart. (vii) Walt. Pye of Holborn, gent.; Anne Pye of Middx. sp. (viii) Gertrude, Duchess of Bedford. Robt. Palmer of Bloomsbury esq. (ix) John Wynne of Bloomsbury, gent. - -The manors of Knotting and Souldrop, with messuages, farms, cottages, lands, woods thereto belonging; a capital messuage or manorhouse called the Place House in occ. H.J. Pye. (New name among the cottagers: Chas. Bletsoe; the Souldrop property has been subject to Souldrop enclosure award. (Recites Refs AD1931, AD1932-33 and deeds therein recited; Hen. Pye died March 1766. The principal sums are still unpaid, and the Duchess of Bedford has contracted to purchase the property for £37,500, out of which the various sums of £3,000, £2,000, £2,000, £12,000, £1,500 and £5,200 are to be paid.) Witn. J. Harrington, Dan. Beaumont.

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Pye, Henry James,
Pye, Charles,
Pye, Anthony,
Ward, William,
Butler, Joseph,
Maule, Eleanor,
Maule, George,
Hanmer, Walden,
Pye, Walter,
Pye, Anne,
Russell, Gertrude (Duchess of Bedford),
Palmer, Robert,
Wynne, John,
Bletsoe, Charles,
Harrington, J,
Beaumont, Daniel

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