HF13/5/17

Articles of Agreement 1) Simpson Anderson of Montague Street, Russell Square, Middlesex, Esquire (Vendor) 2)Honourable Samuel Ongley of Graffham, Hunts (Purchaser)

8 May 1806

From: 1806 To: 1806

Manor of Clifton and Clifton Laces AND Capital Messuage or Chief Mansion House in Clifton, called the Manor House of Laces alias Clifton with dovehouse, barns, stables outhouses, yards, garden an orchard (2A,0R,25P) AND close of pasture called The Leys, near adjoining to the messuage, & Close of pasture called The Pasture (15A) AND Close of pasture ground called Buck Meadow (2A) AND 2A lying next to the Park AND several meadows called Clay Bridge Mead & Weed Holmes (6A,OR,21P) AND 4 Closes or parcels of pasture or meadow ground called The Lakes (10 Acres) AND Close of arable land, formerly pasture ground, commonly called Potters Close (1A,2R) AND 4 pieces of meadow ground being Lammas Ground (4A) AND pieces of arable land & ley ground, lying dispersedly in the open & common fields of Clifton (122A,2R) all above in the occupation of John Arch or his undertenants/assigns AND 4 Messuages, cottages or tenements with the gardens, at Clifton now in the tenure of Abraham West, William Kane, Gregory Sole, Thomas Wells & John Strap or their undertenants. (Conveyed by Lease & Release 1) Reverend Newdigate Poyntz, Bachelor of Laws 2) John Lord, Gent; Charles Lord, Lieutenant in the Somerset Regiment of Fencibles; Thomas Lord, Artist; Newdigate Lord, Founder; Reverend William Lord, Doctor of Divinity; James Lord, Clerk, John Thornton, Woollendraper and Mary, his wife; John Ricketts, Schoolmaster and Elizabeth, his wife and John Shepperd, Baker and Ann, his wife 3) Simpson Anderson (purchaser) 13 & 14 December 1798) AND piece of land (7A), now in the occupation of John Arch in East Field of Clifton, near the Gravel Pit (Copyhold of the Manor of Henlow Llanthony and as such liable to Annual Rent of 2s and Customary Fine on death or alienation) AND all other properties in Clifton of Simpson Anderson Consideration £6,100 paid by 2) to 1) Witness: Ambrose Humphreys of Harpur Street

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Anderson, Simpson,
Arch, John,
Ongley, Samuel,
West, Abraham,
Kane, William,
Sole, Gregory,
Wells, Thomas,
Strap, John,
Poyntz, Newdigate,
Lord, John,
Lord, Charles,
Lord, Thomas,
Lord, Newdigate,
Lord, William,
Lord, James,
Thornton, John,
Thornton, Mary,
Ricketts, John,
Ricketts, Elizabeth,
Shepperd, John,
Shepperd, Ann,
Humphreys, Ambrose

Clifton Manor, DEEDS, legal papers, London WC1 Russell Square, Graffham, Clifton Lacies, Clifton Manor, Clifton Manor (house), Clifton fields, artist, founder, Doctor of Divinity, woollen draper, schoolmaster, baker, Henlow Lanthony Manor