Reference
WL1000/1/WEST1/4
Title
Attested copy Release
Date free text
7 Aug 1745
Production date
From: 1745 To: 1745
Scope and Content
Parties:
(i) John Burr of Westoning, yeoman;
(ii) Elizabeth York of Bromham, widow;
(iii) William Staines of Biddenham, gentleman; Francis Mason of Bedford, innkeeper
Reciting:
•intended marriage of (i) and (ii)
Operative Part
•to secure a jointure for (ii) if she outlived (i) then (i) and (ii) conveyed (a) to (iii) in trust;
•(i) and (ii) paid 5/- each.
Property:
(a) messuage, malting, dovehouse and premises in Westoning in the occupation of John Burr;
(b) adjoining close of five acres;
(c) eleven acres of arable dispersed in Cranfield Field, Westoning, except half an acre shooting down to Cranfield Bridge;
(d) two and a half acres of meadow in Cranfield Meadow, Tingrith;
(e) half an acre of sward at Wheelers Leys, Westoning;
(f) two acres of turf in Low Meadows, Westoning;
(a)-(f) were inherited by (i) fro Edward Burr, his father.
(g) messuage in the occupation of John Harper in Bedford Saint Paul with the Golden Lion Inn N and messuage in the occupation of James Chamberlain S;
(h) two erected messuages in Castle Lane, Bedford, Saint Paul in the occupation of Bailey Munns and Richard Rose
(g)-(h) were inherited by Robert York, late husband of (ii)
(a)-(f)
•to (i) until the marriage
(g)-(h)
•to (ii) until the marriage
(a)-(h)
•after the marriage to (i) for his life, remainder to (ii) for life for her jointure in bar and satisfaction of dower, remainder to heirs of (ii) begotten on her body by (i), remainder to (iii) in trust for sale and payment of £500 as instructed in the will of (ii) with a proviso that (a)-(g) could, instead, be conveyed to the heirs of (i) on payment of £500 to (iii)
Witnesses:
•John Partridge;
•Thomas Partridge;
•Griffith Morgan
Copy of 25 Nov 1807 examined by Charles Austin and George King, clerk to Ezra Eagles.
Level of description
item