Reference
AD3644
Title
i) Court of Augmentations
ii) William Gostwyke and wife Anne
LEASE (Indenture) by (i) to (ii) for 21 years from Michaelmas last, at annual rent of £14 9s 4d.
... the site of the late Priory of Caldwell, and all buildings within the precincts.
Date free text
1537-1562
Production date
From: 1537 To: 1562
Scope and Content
... 'a motherfeld' 34 acres; Bedhoole field 29 1/2 acres; Romer field 12acres.; Moswell field 25 1/2acres.; all the land lying next and near the wall of the said late Priory containing 23 acres; land called Barkesdiche 47acres; 14 1/2 acres in Kempston felde; 18 acres lying beyond the Conyngree; Hammemede 8 acres; 2 crofts called Westcrofte and Longecrofte containing 18acres; a croft called
the Pylecroftclose 11acres; the Waterclose 11acres; the Conyngree 12acres; the Barneyarede 1acres; Great Ramsell and Lytle Ramsell 14acres; Claycroft 12acres; Meghell close 14 acres.;
all of which had been held to the use of the hospice of the late dissolved Priory.
(proportion of annual rent £12 6s 8d)
... a close of pasture in Kempston called Stokkyng in the tenure of John Feyre at annual rent 15s 8d
... a close of pasture called Mooreclose in Kempston in the tenure of John Fyssher at annual rent 6s 8d
... a close called Clopham Close late in the tenure of John West at a annual rent of 20s
... 1a. arable in Wyllynton worth 4d. per annum (proportion of annual rent £2 2s 8d)
reserving to the Crown all great timber and woods. Crown to repair timber, tiles and slate, tenant straw etc.
Tenant to take hedgeboot, fireboot, ploughboot and cartboot, and if insufficient timber on estate, then to be taken from Thykthorne Wood in the lordship of Houghton, Beds.
(seal missing) 3 Dec 29 Hen VIII 1537.
endorsed 'Mensis Decembr' 1562 I have xxxvj yeares yet to comme of a Lease or graunt of the demeanes of Caldwell Tho: Legh'"
Level of description
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