Reference
C929
Title
Settlement (release only): £700 (copy)
(i) John Lord of Drayton Parslow, Bucks., clerk, & wife Mary (nee Alston)
(ii) Thomas Crawley of Dunstable, gent.; Benjamin Reynolds of Mursley, clerk
Date free text
22 Feb 1752
Production date
From: 1752 To: 1752
Scope and Content
recites:-
24 March 1735/6 : will of William Alston of Pavenham, gent.; manors & lands to be sold; proceeds for wife Ann for life; then to sister Mary Lord, & Frances, wife of Nehemiah Brandreth;
3/4 Oct 1737: marriage settlement of John & Mary Lord; Jamas Bradshaw of Houghton Regis, clerk; moiety of rights
under above will; but no fine was levied;
23/24 Jun 1742: same parties as current deed; moiety of rights as above; £1,200 to be invested in land;
17 Jul 1750: deed poll; reciting that preceding was mislaid;
property has now been sold, & £1,200 invested; £500 on mortgage (Hillersdon Franks, Totternhoe, 1745);
death of John Lord of Toddington, father of John Lord of Drayton Parslow; property at Kensworth (subject to mortgage for £300 in 1747) has come to John Lord junior, but dower is due to his mother Martha; therefore trustees will purchase this for £700;
-- farmhouse in Kensworth called Jeff. Hamps farm, occupied by John Fossey;
Home close & Broad balk, 3 acres ;
Middle spring close, 3 acres;
Bottom close, 2 acres;
White piece, 2 acres;
another close, 4 acres;
another close, 2 acres;
another close, 10 acres.;
another close,1 acre;
another close, 6 acres;
12 acres in the common fields (Crouch Field - abutting on Quadlings bank & on Greenway; Dodgly Field; and
Stellipers on Balam's acre);
another Whitepiece close, 6 acres;
another close, 1acre;
White Dyke close, 1 1/2 acres;
Orange pightle piece (in Stipers Hill Field), 2 acres;
also 1/2 acre in Downs Field;
owners & occupiers adjoining: Joseph Turney, Edward Howe, Godwin Smith, Henry Slow, Richard Atkins, gent., Henry Benning, John Parken, Mr. William Chew, Dean of St. Paul's, Mary Garner spinster, William Turney, Richard Whitley, (blank) Willis, Madam Cart, late John Parker, Thomas Howard;
Witnesses: Robert Snablin, James Burnham.
Level of description
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