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1) John Cooke of Dunstable, Joyner, Mary Cooke of Dunstable, spinster only daughter & heir of Mary late wife of said John Cooke [who was daughter of William Ashby deceased] & of her father also Thomas Feild junior (eldest son of & heir apparent of Thomas Feild, senior of Cockernhoe, Offley, Herts Gentleman, (by former wife Mary sometime called Mary Southen, deceased. James Kingham of Leighton Buzzard, Tallow Chandler & Martha, his wife. 2) John Cooper of Luton, Salesman, 3) John Knowlten of Leighton Buzzed, Chiurgeon 4) Thomas Marsom of Luton, Ironmonger, Nathaniel Marsom of Luton, Tallowchandler. a) Messuage in Eaton Bray now or late in occupance of Richard Burr. Messuage sometime Richard Burr on N pt & close of pasture (1A) adj & adj to
Close sometime of Richard Burr (N) close of Common Lay ground (2A) & abs 1st mentioned close of pasture ground E & Brook W
& abs close & orchard sometime Richard Burr N, 2R of Meadow ground lying in Stanbridge. Mead shooting on Eaton Brook. Now in tenure of Richard Burr & John Carter ,Eaton Bray [conveyed by Lease & Release 1) John Cooke & Mary Cooke 2) John Cooper & Nathaniel Marsom [same dates as this documents] b) Messuage & land at Thrales End, Luton & messuage or tenements and Maulthouse & moiety of well & pump at upper end of the Maulthouse & barns, stables, yards in Town of Luton, then occupied by Thomas Blackborune & William Weatherhead (except 18 inches of ground mentioned &except one annuity,) payable during wife of Jane, the testator) (left by will of George Young of Paul's Walden, Herts to :- granddaughter, Mary Southen (now mother of 7 nos Field jr) reversion in default of heirs to right heirs of George Young, Made 9 Dec 1696, No date of probate given.
c) Messuage or tenement etc in Leighton Buzzard shop then in occupance of John West formerly part of messuage granted
below & messuage then in occupance of Thomas Price. W.,messuage then of heirs of Gyles Firth deceased on E pt, son Common Street, then in occupance of James Kingham [NB throughout Leighton is spelt Laighton] (conveyed by Lease & Release
1) James Kingham & Martha his wife 2) John Knowlten 23 & 24 June 1721), 10 July 1725. NB Hearth Tax Leighton Buzzard, Thomas Price 2 Hearths in 1671. d) Fine attached to a) 1) Thomas Marsom, Nathan Marsom querents 2) John Cooke, Mary Cooke, spinster
James Knighton & Martha his wife, Thomas Field deforciants, 3 messuages, 2 cottages, 1 Malthouse, 2 gardens, orchards, 70A of land, 4A of meadow & 10A of pasture, in Luton, Laighton [Leighton] Buzzard, Eaton Bray & Stanbridge, 3 weeks Michaelmas 12 Geo III [1725]. On back of a) marked ""9"" & ""10"""