• Reference
    LL1/231
  • Title
    Lease [of Oakley House] for 14 years; at annual rent of £59.17s.
  • Date free text
    1772
  • Production date
    From: 1772 To: 1772
  • Scope and Content
    Gertrude (Duchess of Bedford), Caroline (Duchess of Marlborough, wife of George, Duke of Marlborough), and Robert Palmer of St George Bloomsbury (county of Middlesex), (devisees in trust of John, Duke of Bedford), to Robert Hampden (Lord Trevor of Bromham). [Recites Will of John, Duke of Bedford, dated 16 April 1767]. The mansion house called Oakley House; 17 acres meadow; the fishery of the River Ouse from the Mill down the stream; and all goods and furniture marked ‘A’ in an inventory [not enclosed]. Witnesses: Donald Murray and Daniel Beaumont. [Cancelled by mutilation; incomplete].
  • copy at LL1/149
  • Level of description
    item