• Reference
    HF13/5/2
  • Title
    Cancelled Mortgage in £1,000 by Lease for 1000 Years (deliberately mutilated on completion) 1) Richard Bodger of Southill, Gent (Mortgagor) 2) Charles Austin of Ampthill, Gent (Trustee of 1) 3) Charles Dilly of Queens Square, Bloomsbury, Middlesex, Esq, Samuel Davis, the Younger, of Ampthill, Gent (Mortgagees)
  • Date free text
    11 Oct 1806
  • Production date
    From: 1806 To: 1806
  • Scope and Content
    Messuage, tenement or farm house with water mills heretofore called Tythe Mills, now called Shefford Mills in the parishes of Southill & Clifton, near Shefford (late owned by the late Priory of Chicksands), heretofore in the occupation of John Waller alias Warren AND Cottage or dwelling house in Southill, erected near scite of said water mills with piece of ground called a hempland adjoining (1r), heretofore in the occupation of Thomas Mawdlyne (and reputed to belong to the said mills) AND several closes or inclosed grounds of pasture and meadow in Southill & Clifton, heretofore in the several occupations of John Waller alias Warren, Nicholas Field, Humphrey Cranfield and reputed to belong to the Mills namely Close of pasture in Southill, (7A,2R,50P) (sic)) heretofore in occupation of Waller AND Close in Southill adj (5A,0R,15P), heretofore in occupation of Nicholas Field AND Close in Southill,(8A,3R,37P) heretofore in the occupation of Humphrey Cranfield AND Close in Southill, (4A,0R,20P), also occupied by Cranfield and Field AND close called a Hempland (1R,15P), lying at the Mill [-], in possession of Waller AND Close in Clifton NOW known as Messuage, tenement or farm house and water mills called Shefford Mills with garden, premises etc, Southill (1R,32P) AND Close of arable near the Town of Shefford (6A,3R,0P) AND Close of called the Holt (3A,1R,16P) AND land covered with water, called the Mill Pond (1R,38P) AND Close of meadow or pasture, lying below the Mill Pond (1A,3R,20P) AND Close of arable, lying next to the land of Samuel Whitbread Esq (8A,1R,12P) AND piece of ground below the Mills and surrounded by water (1A,0R,36P) AND Road to the Mill (23P) AND Close of meadow or pasture land (4A,1R,6P) (all estate of John Dilly, deceased; lately purchased by Bodger from Charles Dilly) Witnesses Robert Arnold & William Bodger
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