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(i) William Hanscombe, Pirton Grange, gentleman (eldest son & heir of James Hanscombe, late Pirton Grange, deceased and wife Anne late Anne Hamond, grandson and heir of John Hamond, late Pirton, gentleman deceased and wife Eleanor) and wife Mary, daughter of Thomas Smyth senior (ii) Thomas Smyth senior (iii) Thomas Smyth junior, Quickswood, gentleman, James Smyth, Streatley, gentleman [reciting HE20 and that Anne Hanscombe, mother of (i) is since decd.] (i) to (iii) in trust.
--- Pirton Grange --- Westley Piece (40acres), Pirton. --- Westley springs and Lower Piece Springs (4 woods) (5acres) --- Long Mead and Further Mead, Pirton (6acres) --- 6 closes (Pirton) (10acres) --- Upper and Lower Pieces, arable, 27acres (Pirton) --- 43acres arable, Pirton fields --- 4acres meadow, Shillington, late part of the demesne lands belonging to the scite/site of the mansion house
of the Manor of Shillington called Shillington Bury, formerly the estate of Thomas Brasier. --- 5acres 1rod in Great Field, Hanscombe End, Shillington late the estate of Edward Tuffaile, now occupied (i), late the estate of James Hanscombe, settled by James Hanscombe, 2 October 1795 on marriage with Anne Hamond, daughter of John Hamond, and which descended to (i) as the eldest son of the marriage. --- Sudgrave Closes (2) (9acres), Shillington, occupied (i) formerly the estate of John Franklin, gentleman then of John Hamond, late James Hanscombe's, settled by John Hamond on James Hanscombe on the marriage, 1695. recited above.
--- messuage Pirton where John Hamond late dwelt, dovehouse, close (2acres) where the messuage stands and Godgreen
Pightle (1 acre), highway South, late Matthew Driver's close North. --- 2 acres arable, North End, abtng. late Matthew Driver's
close West, Rectory land East. --- 1rod abtng Gold Croft North, part of the homestall South. --- 1 acre abtng Twitten West, pightle late John Roberts East, - 2 yard lands belonging to the homestall --- 3 half acres (close), Woolands, Pirton, Rackpitt Mead South, parsonage land North. --- 92 acres Pirton Fields described in terrier annexed to feoffment, 28 April 1673. [(i) John Hamond
(ii) Henry Paratt junior, Old Weston, Hunts, gentleman, William Nicholls, Brington, Hunts, gentleman, Eleanor Paratt, sister of Henry.]
All occupied Robert Primett, and settled by John Hamond, 28 April, 1673 on marriage with Eleanor Paratt, and came to (i) as grand-son and heir of John Hamond.[For copyholds, part of this estate, see Herts. catalogue. nos. 71770, 71801-3, 71810, 71779-80,
71789, 71797, 71806-7, and 71734-71829 passim see also 71795]. Covenant to levy a fine. to use of (iii) in trust:- (a) Pirton Grange and all freeholds belonging and Sudgrove Closes to uses as HE20 (b) Freehold messuage Pirton, and lands occupied Robert Primett, to use of William Hanscombe in fee. Witnesses Isaac Wilkinson, Thomas Love, Robert Bray.