• Reference
    AD3201
  • Title
    Mortgage: £5000 (i) Henry Vernon esq. of Staffordshire (ii) James Hordern of Staffordshire, banker; (iii) Hon. Edward Monkton of Staffordshire; Col. Henry Pigot;
  • Date free text
    19 Aug 1794
  • Production date
    From: 1794 To: 1794
  • Scope and Content
    -- 1/3 of the Hundred (sic) and manor of Toddington; a moiety of the tithes; the advowson of Toddington; the manor of Harlington; the rectory or parsonage of Harlington; 34 acres in Harlington known as the parsonage ground; the manor of Younges, Westoning; and all other manors and lands which Henrietta Maria, Lady Wentworth, sometime had in Toddington, Harlington, Westoning, Tingrith, Herne, Chalton, Fancott, Hockliffe, Houghton Regis & Bidwell; and in the Hundred of Clifton; the demesne lands and courts belonging to the Hundred; pasture & wood in Toddington, Harlington, Westoning and Tingrith called the old park (314 ac.); Harlington wood, 160 ac.; Lady Day Wood, Outwood and How grove, in Toddington and 'Sandon' (?Sundon), 120 ac.; Sheep pasture, Toddington, 100 ac.; farms and cottages in Toddington, Harlington, Westoning and Tingrith occupied by Pat. Dudegeon, gent.; William Martin; Edward Taylor; John Godfrey; Lady Astrey; Robert Emerton; James Mather; Christopher England; Jeffery Wildman; Ralph Attwell; Richard Gurney; William Barker; Luke Parrett, John Carvill alias Cook; The 'body of the old park', together with the Lawn; 160 ac. ploughed; house & meadow thereto belonging, 4 acres.; Mill wood, 64 acres; late occupied by William Pryor; 1/2 the coppice wood late occupied by Samuel Ironside; How grove, 10 acres, and meadow adjoining, formerly part of old park; Beldowe closes, 12 acres.; late occupied by Thomas Gurney; the drift way to How grove, through ground of Richard King, late occupied by William Fox; the messuage late of John King, then occupied by William Fox; close late of John King; and other pasture late occupied by John King then John Leper; all commonly called Broad Marshes, 35 acres.; all which wood, messuage, closes etc. were heretofore occupied by William Fox and heretofore belonged to Henry. Huscroft; closes called the Marshes, 40 acres, in Toddington, late occupied by John King sr. & jr. & Abe. Saunders; 2 closes called the Hoyles,13 acres, in Tingrith; 1 acre. in the common fields of Tingrith; all abutting south east on Washeredge lane (Milton Bryant - Tingrith), and north east. on the common fields of Eversholt; a dwelling-house and close called Little Redhill close, 5 acres, in Toddington, late occupied by Elizabeth Green, widow, since John Harris, abutting on Layland lane or Long lane, Nuplings green and Madge lane; 2 closes called Upper & Middle Lowse lands, 8 & 9 acres., which 'are or were part of the new park', in Herne, late occupied by Robert Emmerton; a windmill and water-mill called the park mill, and 1 ac. meadow west of the millpond; 1 ac. in Park Field adjoining land some time of the Earl of Cleveland; and Sow marsh meadow, abutting north on the Dole mead; a parcel of land in Park Field called Chigrave, abutting on Toddington-Ampthill road; the freeboard of the park between the park and the mill brook, from the bridge by the park gate; a cottage and close of 3 acres in Toddington (cottage late occupied by James, close Thomas Jackson), abutting on the Toddington-Fancott road; Birchindales close, 9 acres, late occupied by Thomas Jackson; Shillings close, 10 acres, late occupied Thomas Shillings; 30 acres in Langley Field, Toddington, next Redhill pasture; Hoyles close, 13 acres; Peirages close, 7 acres, adjoining Long Mead; Fullers Lower close, 10 acres, adjoining Matthews warren; the Hop Ground, 5 acres, al. Tingrith wood, in Tingrith, adjoining Dauntry wood; Barn yard whereon an old house & barn stood; passage to Langley common fields; Four Acres close abutting west on the Stone house; Green Horslead al. Chesnut Field, 24 acres, adjoining Lt. Horslead; Carpenters grove, 12 acres, Tingrith; Outwood coppice, Toddington,101 acres adjoining Ipslow hill, Outward common, the body of the old park, the Lawn and Black Hedge, all in Toddington and Tingrith; 2 closes called Longlands in Toddington late occupied by John Clarke Butcher; 2 closes, 7 acres, Mead close, 9 acres, in Toddington, late occupied by William Martin, yeo.; Peas close, Barn close & Lt. Bushey close, 13 acres; being part of the manor of Younges; a parcel of land, 20 acres, in Westoning Field called Gravel Pitt Hill; the Flatt meadow, Penloy meadow, adjoinig the Hill, in Westoning, both 6 acres, late occupied by William Martin; 16 acres, parcel of Black Hedges, Toddington, late occupied by Joseph Atkins, yeoman; Beane meadow, 13 acres, part of Black Hedges, lateoccupied by Edward Taylor, yeo.; Gt. & Lt. Pollins closes, 17 & 3 acres, in Harlington; Illsonsfields close, 10 acres, Toddington; Stocking Long crofts, al. Oate close & Redding, in Harlington, Westoning, Toddington & Tingrith, 26 ac.; Jacobs pightle, 4 ac.; all in the several occupations of Richard Atkins, Joseph Balls, Mary Brazier, Abe. Bright, Thomas Bunker. (blank) Burgess, Francis Fowler, John Fowler, Thomas Garlick, George Godfrey, Joseph Gregory, Mary Hobbes, Elizabeth Horley, Edward Horley, John Wingate Jennings esq., Andrew King, Henry Letch, Thomas Maston, Joseph Mead, William Merry, Harry Osborne, Johanna Osborne, Joseph Osborne, Michael Palmer, Elizabeth Pateman, Thomas Poulton, Joseph Presley, Adam Quarry, Richard Strange, Elizabeth Strange, John Wheeler; at rents amounting to £2,898 2s.; and all other the manors etc. in Beds. heretofore belonging to Henrietta Maria, Lady Wentworth, Baroness of Nettlestead; and all those devised to trustees by Philadelphia, Lady Wentworth, deceased, widow of Thomas, Lord Wentworth (son of Thomas, Earl of Cleveland); and all those subject of deed of 1, 2 October 1711 (i): Sir Henry Johnson & wife Martha, Baroness Wentworth of Nettlestead; (ii): Thomas, Earl of Strafford & Anne Countess of Strafford; (iii): Peter Wentworth of Yorks. esq. & Josiah Burchell of Westminster esq; (iv): Hugh Smithson & William Rawsterne;) to use of daughters or Earl & Countess of Strafford. witnessed.: William Leigh, John Keep.
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