• Reference
    C1438
  • Title
    Covenant to levy a fine: settlement (copy) (i) Thomas Ashhurst, citizen & salter of London, youngest son of late Robert of Hedingham castle; & eldest son William; (ii) William Ashhurst of Lincoln's Inn, esq., & Samuel, citizen & merchant tailor, brothers of Robert;
  • Date free text
    16 Sep 1726
  • Production date
    From: 1726 To: 1726
  • Scope and Content
    - - extensive property in Essex [reciting deed of 1723]; - - (p.9) 'all the rest of his manors, lands' etc.; marginal note '' the estate in Thurleigh is included'; farmhouse & closes called Meggsweed alias Gales farm in Thurleigh, late occupied byJohn Gale, now Thomas Millard; closes containing 46 acres (old orchard, Sperrys, Stripe, Corn alias lay, Watts Folley, Nether Bushey, Farther Bushey, a grove, Wisemans End pightle, pease al. Land); & 45 acres in open fields (Wiseman, Cow, Cookes & South Fields); also Clapham Brook close, late occupuied by Israel Willmott; recites:- conveyance 21, 22 May 1712 (i) Owen Thomas Bromsall of Northill esq., brother & heir of Ralph deceased. John Harvey of Ickwell Bury & Francis Brace jr., Ralph's executors. Frances Bromsall, spinster, Ralph's sister. Thomas Crouch of London, merchant, & wife Margaret, sister of Ralph (ii) Robert & Samuel Ashhurst; Witnesses: Joscelyn Pickard, John Halton.
  • Level of description
    item