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OR395
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Assignment: £350 and £153.
(i) Richard Powell of the Inner Temple esquire.
Edmund Manning of London, citizen and grocer.
(ii) Honourable Dame Juliana Tracy of Stanway, Gloucestershire.
Rebecca Kenrick of Middlesex, spinster.
(iii) William Cranmer of Middlesex, esquire.
Date free text
1656-1681
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From: 1656 To: 1681
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-- The parsonage and rectory impropriate of Sharnbrook, and every part thereof, as assigned by Marmaduke Thomson to Thomas Tayler and from him to Richard Powell; and all the trust in Edmund Manning reposed by the will of William Cobb and by him assigned to Richard Powell; as also any claim of Richard Powell; £878 by Chancery decree to be paid to Edmund Manning out of infant’s estate.
Recites:-
Will of Thomas Cobb esquire 16 January 1670.
Devised to brother Edward Sharnbrook rectory, charged with payment of £300 each to brother George and sister Mary.
Will of Edward Cobb, 6 June 1674.
Devised to brother William to pay debts, subject to same payments, and also subject to Edward Cobb’s debts being paid within 18 months; in default to Marmaduke Thomson, citizen and apothecary of London , to sell, and pay debts; residue together with ½ estate, to brother William; the other half to Marmaduke Thomson, brother- in-law, executor.
Will of William Cobb, 14 September 1675.
To wife Sarah a cottage in Sharnbrook, wherein Jeffrey Woodham inhabited, to hold while unmarried;
Executors: Henry Mountagu of Colworth esquire (brother of Robert Mountagu), Essex Woodham of Bletsoe, gentleman, Edmund Manning, citizen and grocer of London, to whom residue of estate and remainder of said cottage.
Sarah married Thomas Barringer, hence cottage came to Edmund Manning
Assignment 28 July 1679.
Marmaduke Thomson to Thomas Tayler, with consent of Edmund Manning: Sharnbrook rectory.
Release: 29 July 1679. Marmaduke Thomson to Edmund Manning. *
Witnesses. John Ganetz, Joseph Farrington, Thomas Brome, his servant.
Attached: schedule of relative documents, from 1656. 7 March 1680/1.
* Assignment 29 March 1680. Thomas Taylor to Richard Powell.
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