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(i) Robert Jenkyn of Harpenden, gent.
(ii) Richard Crawley of Doctors Commons;
(iii) Henry Smith of Streatley, gent.
(iv) William Hobbes of Pirton, yeoman.
(v) Richard Norton of London, esq.;
(vi) Godman Jenkyn junior of Harpenden, gent.
(vii) John Cheveley of London, gent.
- - manor of Barton, with appurtenant farms, mills, dovehoses (no details), which were conveyed by Norton to John Roberts, gent., & by him to said Robert Jenkyn;
- - mansionhouse & farm wherein Thomas Rotherham gent. lately dwelt called Stockwood alias Whipperley, Luton, with appurtenant
closes etc. (exactly as C158,C160,C171);
- - a messuage in Sharpenhoe in Streatley, late occupied by Ralph Deacon, now Robert Baker; a messuage in Sharpenhoe occupied by Richard Sindfield; and all messuages, lands etc. (no details) in Sharpenhoe, Sundon, Westoning & Harlington, viz.
closes called Samsill (10 acres), Burgis (6 a.), Gill (2 a.), Carringtons (3 a.), the old orchard (3 a.), spring (3 a.), Lt. Pightle (1 r.), School pightle (1 a.), Streatley (1 a.), Harpers mead (1 a.); & 5 closes called Aldbury, Wood & Home (tog. 11 a.): a piece of meadow in
Ansells mead (1 a.); land dispd. in the common fields of Streatley, Sharpenhoe, Sundon & Harlington (201 1/2 a.) (no details); Georges wood, Streatley (8 a.), occupied Richard Norton & Robert Baker; a messuage occupied by William Wright, late John Burr, now William Hobbs, in Sharpenhoe; 6 closes called the Twelve Acres, the Five Acres, the Nine Acres, the Eight Acres, the Mill alias Eight Acres, & the Lane; also a spinney adjoining Twelve Acres close (containing together 44 acres); bounding on other lands of Richard Norton in part & on the wood-ground of Hugh Smith south, a lane from
Sharpenhoe to Fa? Meads east, & land late of Mr. William Burr deceased west, & on land of said John Burr north; a messuage in Streatley occupied by William Squire & close adjoining (1 a.), another ditto John Allen; & 4 pieces of arable in the common fields of Streatley occupied by John Allen (no details); a cottage in sharpenhoe occupied by Rosamund Circuit & close adjoining (1/2 a.);
a messuage in Bedford occupied (blank) Day; annual rent of £16 from the manor of Sharpenhoe; sometime the inheritance of
Richard Barnard.