• Reference
    C1128-1129
  • Title
    Deed to declare the uses of a recovery (lease & release):
  • Date free text
    1706
  • Production date
    From: 1706 To: 1706
  • Scope and Content
    i) Powlett, Earl of Bolingbroke (brother & heir of Oliver, Earl of Bolingbroke, deceased, who was son & heir of Sir Powlett St. John); ii) Sir St. Andrew St. John of Woodford (son & heir of Sir Oliver St. John of Woodford, deceased, who was son & heir of Sir Rowland St. John of Woodford); Oliver St. John esq. (eldest son & heir apparent of said Sir St. Andrew); iii) John Dodson of Furnival's Inn; iv) John Penington of Bedford, gent.; -- the manors of Melchbourne, Shelton, Dean, Yelden, Bolnhurst & Felmersham; the mansionhouse or manorhouse of Melchbourne, occupied by said Powlett; and all messuages, lands etc. to said manors belonging (no details); -- the impropriate rectory, glebe & tithes of corn, grain, hay & wood of Melchbourne; the advowsons of Yelden, Shelton, Melchbourne, Riseley, Thurleigh; -- the closes, lands, tithes (no details) of said Powlett, Sir St. Andrew & Oliver St. John purchased by said Oliver, late Earl, of (blank) Elmes esq., deceased.; the closes in Bletsoe purchased by said late Earl of Robert Berry, gent., & (blank) Archer, widow, both deceased; farmhouse in Radwell, Felmersham, occupied by Thomas Shime; with closes, woods etc. thereto belonging.; Kings meadow, several, 7acres, Biddenham, occupied by John Firby, gent.; closes of said Powlett etc. in Sharnbrook occupied by William Corbey; close & messuage thereon in Wyboston, Eaton Socon; & 4 acres meadow in Wyboston occupied by said Powlett; messuages, cottages, lands etc. of said Powlett etc. in Melchbourne Shelton, Dean, Yelden, Bolnhurst, Felmersham, Radwell, Biddenham, Sharnbrook, Wyboston & Eaton Socon (no details); witnesses: John Barnardiston, F. Brace, William Simpson, Nicholas Calton, Marmaduke Beke.
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