• Reference
    C1396
  • Title
    Conveyance (feoffment): ( copy) Henry Richards senior to son & heir apparent Walter, both of Keysoe, yeoman.
  • Date free text
    1655
  • Production date
    From: 1655 To: 1655
  • Scope and Content
    - - farmhouse wherein Henry Richards dwells at Brook End, Keysoe, with dovehouse, malthouse, etc.; 28 acres arable in the open fields (no details); windmill standing on part thereof, occupied by Henry Richards; 2 closes called Corn closes , 7 acres; 2 acres in Brook End meadow at Hangers Gap ; also £400 bequeathed to Henry Richards by [blank] Richards of Dover, widow; 6 beasts or bullocks, 2 cart-horses, 20 sheep, half the crop of corn & grain now growing on his land, a long cart, 1 pair shod wheels, a tumbrel cart, 1 pair shod wheels, 2 ploughs with gears, & annual rent of £14 from residue of land; Witnesses: Oliver Rands, Richard Dempston, Robert Stapleton.
  • Level of description
    item