Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    WY102-103
  • Title
    Conveyance. Lease and Release. £15,500.
  • Date free text
    27, 28 Feb 1769
  • Production date
    From: 1769 To: 1769
  • Scope and Content
    (i) William Berners of Woolverston Park, Suffolk, Esquire, and wife Mary, sister of Henry Bendysh, and Reverend Robert Hagar of Clare Hall, Cambridge, clerk. (ii) John Hewett Hagar of Wigmore Street, St. Marylebone, Esquire and wife Elizabeth, sister of Henry Bendysh (iii) Sir Gilles Payne of Roxton, baronet. Recites Marriage Settlement of Elizabeth Bendysh and John Hewett Hagar, 19, 20 March 1756. Purchase money allotted as follows; £3,000 to parties (i) & (ii); £500 in full satisfaction of money owing to Ann Leigh, executor of Thomas Leigh; £12,000 to William Bendysh and Robert Hagar. -- Manors of Tempsford, Brayes and Drayton; capital messuage or mansion house in Tempsford; Lime ground close, Wood ground close, and Sales meadow, belonging to the capital messuage, containing 32 acres 1 rood 22 perches, formerly occupied by Francis Phipps esquire; messuage and homestall, with lands abbutting :- Home close, Great Imarts close, piece of meadow in the common meadows, meadow called Garner’s Holme in Roxton and several pieces of arable containing together 98 acres 1 rood 14 perches; close called Brayes manor pasture, meadow and arable containing 105 acres 1 rood; 2 closes called Woodground, Mill close (15 acres) with dwelling house, water mill and Mill piece belonging (3 acres) occupier John Blows; George Inn with homestall and Malting close, Little Smarts, Pecks wood ground, Lands Holme meadow, meadow and arable containing 39 acres 1 rood 28 perches, cottage near the Turnpike, pightle of pasture adjoining, with meadow 2 acres 1 rood 22 perches, all occupied by Charles Woods; Messuage with homestall, home close and close of pasture called Home close, Kitchen Hurst close, meadow and arable occupier Thomas Field, 155 acres, 3 roods 21 perches; messuage and homestall, Carters close, Townsend close, piece of midsummer meadow called Stonehill and the Seven lots, meadow and arable 184 acres, 2 roods 26 perches, occupier William Dockerhill; messuage and homestall, home close, piece of pasture adjoining meadow and arable, 2 cottages, 1 called Butler’s with meadow adjoining, 45 acres 1 rood 2 perches, occupier John Moore; messuage and homestall, close called Tingey’s , Greenend close, meadow and arable, 165 acres, occupier Thomas Ravens; messuage and homestall, home close, Sextons Close, Feltons close, meadow and arable 146 acres 15 perches, occupier Robert Hewett; messuage and homestall, wharf, Marritts close, 2 acres 1 rood, 12 perches, occupied by Joseph Field; messuage, garden, orchard and close, 2 acres 1 rood, 29 perches, occupied by Captain Hall; cottage and two closes, 3 acres 3 roods, 36 perches, occupied by Nathaniel Guy; several cottages with gardens and orchards, occupied by William Whitebread, Edward Kennedy, William Miles, William Harrison, Matthew George, William Buckett, Joseph Firmley, John Maddy, William Collye, Thomas Butler, Young Godfrey, Thomas Browning, John Butterworth, William Warbey, Robert Robins; all in Tempsford, except for a few acres in Everton, Midsummer meadows and the Seven Lots in Sandy, and Garner’s Holme in Roxton; messuage with barns etc., Hewett’s close, 3 acre close, Square, Barn, Longland, Upper Stonehill, Lower Stonehill, Eight acre, Hill, Stile, Sheppard’s hill, Elm, closes, Ladies pightle, Hill field, Meadow pasture and Calves close, (78 acres, 3 roods 34 perches) in Everton cum Tetworth, occupied by Seth Garrett; messuage and barns etc., with closes called Great Decoy, Decoy pightle pasture, Plumtree, Burnt ground, Pond ground, Muck ground, Long, Thorough, in Cran field, in Dungeon furlong (88 acres 36 perches) occupied by – Titmarsh, widow; in Tempsford, Everton cum Tetworth, and Gamlingay. Witnesses. Thomas Lloyd of Lincoln’s Inn, John Webb, clerk to Mr. Robert Want.
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