• Reference
    C1601-1603
  • Title
    Marriage settlement on marriage of John Crawley & Susanna V. Sambrooke
  • Date free text
    1740
  • Production date
    From: 1740 To: 1740
  • Scope and Content
    (i) John Crawley of Hanover Sqare, London, esq. (ii) Susanna V. Sambrooke, youngest daughter of Sir Samuel Sambrooke, baronet late of Bush Hill deceased. (iii) George Dashwood of Heveningham Hall esq.; William Wright of Newark esq. - - the manor of Stopsley; farmhouse in Stopsley; closes called Pightle, Crouches, Little Heys, Chalgrave, Great Heycroft, close above orchard & spring, Sea, Great Dell Croft, two Beach Croft, Slaughters Hern, Little Slaughters, Dells Slaughters, Damsels Wich, Coney Dell spring; & parcels in the open fields (Darley, Forecroft, Little Dell Croft, Creaks Hill, Neele Hill, Warden Hill, Galley Hill); closes & parcels in all amount to 184 1/4 acres, in Luton & Lilley, occupied by Thomas Serrey; - - Eaton Green farmhouse with closes (Two Cow pastures, Linces, Rowell, Nineteen Acres, Oatswick, Close next 19 acres, Upper & Lower Great Field, Lower Slip, Seven Acres, Rammeridge, Langhams, Six Acres, Six Acres next Forge Wood, Eight Acres Dudleys, Ten Acres Dudleys, Two Acres next the Green, Two Acres Dudleys, Six Acres Dudleys, Three closes between Haswicks & Spittlesey woods, Charlcroft, Two closes called Thirty Acres, Four pieces in Blackwater Field;) - - Wigmore Hall with closes (Little Rammeridge, Three Ashridge near Cockernhoo lane, Twelve Acres, Close next Barn, Slip betwixt springs, Cow leys, Three Ashridge closes shooting on Rammeridge closes, Upper & Lower Cockernhoo closes, close next Cockernhoo's, Lower Wandon Field, Ten Acres, Three Spring coppices; - - Falkners Hall with closes (no details) & parcels containing 177 acres; - - two closes called Oakleys Horns; Eaton Green farmhouse, Wigmore Hall, Falkners Hall, and 2 last closes, occupied by Thomas Ellingham; - - manor of Biscot & manorhouse called Biscot Place, with land (349 acres) in the fields of Biscot, Leagrave, Stopsley & Luton; also 80 acres arable in Luton, formerly belonging to Little Farm, Limbury; also tithes of corn & grain on above; also Biscot tithes; also tithe barn & yard at Limbury; occupier Jeremiah Okey; - - Nether Crawley farm, with closes (Upper & Lower Orchard, Pendcroft, close behind 1r. barn, Grass, Woolsdens, Two Hunt, Langley, Hempstalls, Dell Home, Evely Hill, Clay furlong, Wood, Rycroft, Two Upwell, Eleven Acres, Blyes, Fourteen Acres, Guildcroft, Styles', Great & Little Haverings, Knights Haverings, Well Haverings, First Haverings, Pond Haverings, Days pightle, Woodwards croft, close by Woodwards croft, Nine Acres, Langley Spring;) also 1 piece in Hoo Field & 40 acres dispersed in Biscot, Warden Hill & Galley Hill Fields; occupier - Sarah Smith; - - capital messuage or farmhouse in Luton called Stockwood with closes (Bakers, Six Acres, Eight Acres, Pond, Wood or Grove, Upper Grove, Deributts, Twelve Acres, Yewtree, Gregory Shaw, Great & Little Dell, Middle, Farther; & 3 closes purchased by Richard Crawley of John Roberts); tithes of corn, grain, grass, hay, wood, wool, calves, lambs & all other tithes (offerings excepted) from last-mentioned (excluding Dreribands [sic] - & said 3 closes & piece exchanged with John Nodes esq.); High Wood, 14 acres; Farley Wood, 8 acres; occupier - John Crawley esq.; - - Luton town tithe; tithe barn & yard in Luton.; occupier: Thomas Hawkins; - - farmhouse at Crawley green with closes (Barkers, Middle, Lower, St. Anne's, Hollycrofts); also 4 pieces in Blackwater Field, 1 in Neels Hill Field, 1 in Field under Sommeris Hill; occupier - Charles Ells; - - 2 pieces in common fields of Luton, Stopsley & Cowridge End; all the spring woods & coppices occupied by said John Crawley; - - various bank stocks.
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