Scope and Content
On the marriage of (i) and Susan Poulter.
-- The manor of Wilden; the advowson of Wilden; Great Blackmore close, Wymington (110 acres divided into 5 several closes); the manor of Bassetts in Milton Ernest; 1/3rd of the manor of Erneys in Milton Ernest; the site, capital messuage and parsonage house of Renhold near Renhold parish church, formerly in the occupation of Paul Peck, late Richard Smith, now John Smith; Home close and Lymbars close, 19 acres; closes in Clapham and Oakley containing 309 acres, late in the occupation of Thomas and Stephen Rolt, gentlemen, heretofore part of the inhabitancy of James Waferer; and late in the occupation of Dame Anne Rolt, widow, deceased; Mill pasture, Oakley, 41 acres, divided into 3 closes, heretofore in the occupation of Thomas Rolt, greatgrandfather of Samuel (one late in the occupation of Richard Williamson, two Dame Anne Rolt, all now Samuel Rolt); Oakley close, 39 acres, late Dame Anne Rolt, now Samuel Rolt; Baldwin’s pasture, Milton Ernest, 20 acres, in the occupation of Samuel Rolt;
a messuage, close and 12 acres,purchased from John Cobb, gentleman, late in the occupation of Edward Lewis, yeoman; a messuage in Milton Ernest called the Falkon; a cottage in Milton Ernest abutting east and north on the green, south on Back Lane, late in the occupation of William Wells, shoemaker;
a cottage, close and 1½ acres bought by John Smith of Thomas Honner; ½ acre on Crowseling furlong exchanged by John Smith with Thomas Chase, gentleman; ½ acre on Portway furlong in Portway Field; abutting north on Byway piece, south on Crow bridge; which Joan Gilman, widow, assured to John Smith;
a cottage and close in the south end of Milton Ernest, and 3 acres in the common fields, in the occupation of Christopher Savage, and by him purchased of John Giles of Bletsoe, yeoman; and 1 acre bought of John Edwards of Milton Ernest, deceased, and wife Alice;
Chesterly wood in Clapham and Oakley;
2 pightles in Oakley adjoining the mill, late in the occupation of Thomas Rolt deceased and George Pain;
osier beds in Milton in the occupation of [blank] Wilson;
A capital messuage or farmhouse in Ravensden called Stoakes farm, formerly in the occupation of John King, late William Mason, now John Shepheard; Barn close, 10 acres; a cottage in Ravensden in the occupation of Thomas Lavender, and pightle; 180 acres in Ravensden in the occupation of John Shepheard;
2 tenements in Milton Ernest bought by Thomas Rolt, late in the occupation of Thomas Taylor and Robert Morris, now Douglas Settle and William Knight; a cottage and 3 roods in the occupation of John Low; 3 acres bought by Thomas Rolt of Widow Robinson; all in Milton; 3 acres in Clapham, bought by Thomas Rolt of Mr. Smith;
and all other lands of Samuel Rolt in Milton Ernest, Clapham, Oakley, Wymington, Wilden,Pavenham, Bolnhurst, Colmworth, Roxton, Barford, Ravensden, Thurleigh.
Witnesses. Samuel Blackerly, John Colman, Daniel Small, Matthew Cradock, Thomas Osborne, Timothy Adams. .