Reference
CD714
Title
Approval pursuant to the decree:
Date free text
26 Jul 1759
Production date
From: 1759 To: 1759
Scope and Content
i) Robert Foley
ii) Michael Tovey, Thomas King, John Tovey and wife Elizabeth
Approval of N Spicer of the sale to Richard Woodhouse, Inner Temple, London, gentleman, for £1460 for the lot no 1 in Langford, (as described in scedule)
Schedule:
A mansion house, a common stable for 10 horses, a three stall stable, a dove house well stocked with pigeons, three large barns, etc, also a garden well planted with fruit trees-all freehold orchard adjoining, called Home Close, being part freehold and part copyhold House contains-hall, 2 parlours 'the one large & handsomely fitted up with a Marble Chimney Piece & Slab', the other small, a kitchen, wash house, dairy etc with 5 bed chambers upstairs besides garretts. Copyhold-small farm house and a tenement or cottage, about 150 acres arable in common fields of Langford, and above 20 acres meadow and pasture in or near Langford. (2 acres of the arable held of the Manor of the Rectory of Langford, 10 acres arable and 1 acre pasture held of the Manor of Holme cum Langford, and all the rest held of the Manor of Langford). These estates are let at £89 p.a. i.e. part to George Dilley who lives in the Mansion House, at £78 p.a. and the residue to Richard Cowper who resides in the lesser farm house at £11 p.a. 'The Mansion House is pleasently situated on the Banks of the River Ouse ......'
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