Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    WG361-362
  • Title
    Lease and release to make a tenant to the precipe for a recovery: Simon Taylor, esquire, of Irthlingborough, Northamptonshire, esquire, and Simon Oliver Taylor, esquire (only son), to James Martin of the Middle Temple. The said manors [Manor of How and Pertenhall otherwise Covington Fee, and the Manor of Bells] and appurtenant lands in Pertenhall, Little Staughton and Keysoe [full details given]. To the use of the said Simon and Simon Oliver Taylor, and their heirs.
  • Date free text
    1772
  • Production date
    From: 1772 To: 1772
  • Scope and Content
    Details given: - the mansion-house in Pertenhall, late in the occupation of George Vaughan, gentleman; - the Meadow Close adjoining containing 6 acres; - Long Close containing 3 acres; - Reeves Close; - close called Gunsberry containing 20 acres; - Lankish Close containing 2 acres; - Hill Close containing 5 acres; - the manor-house called Bells, late in the occupation of John Wadsworth; - Dovehouse Close containing 4 acres adjoining; - 106 acres of arable, leys and meadow, late in the same occupation [no details]; - 16 acres in the occupation of [-] Johnson; - a cottage and smith's forge and shop, late in the occupation of John Emery; - a cottage and pightle adjoining, late in the occupation of Henry Walker; - a cottage and several pightles late in the occupation of Edward Eaton; all in Pertenhall, and are in the occupations of John Wadsworth, Alexander Newham, Thomas Norman and William Church; - the site of the Manor of Bevins in Segenhoe with Ridgmond, otherwise Ridgmont, and the manor-house belonging in Segenhoe, formerly in the occupation of James Ellard and Matthew Ellard, since of Thomas Cooke, and 2 pightles adjoining, one whereof is several and the other lammas ground, containing together 3 acres; - a close of lammas ground called New Pasture belonging to the manor-house, containing 30 acres; - 1 rood of lammas pasture in Short Dole; - 1/2 acre of pasture lying near Castle Hills, together with the greatest part of the Great Well there at the northwest end thereof; - 4 leys of lammas ground on Baylyhills; all in the parish of Segenhoe with Ridgmond; - Perkeway Close containing 2 1/2 acres in the parish of Eversholt; - 117 acres of arable, leys and greensward belonging to the said manor-house, late in the occupation of the said James and Matthew Ellard [no details]; - also the free warren formerly in the occupation of William Cripps and since of the said Cooke; - 3 1/2 acres dispersed in the open fields of Segenhoe with Ridgmond, in the same occupation; - 6 closes of pasture and arable containing 16 acres called Hollybush Closes; - a cottage at the northeast corner of the closes, formerly in the occupation of Thomas Morrison, since of the said Cooke; - a toft whereon a messuage stood, then called Norwood, and 27 acres of pasture and arable adjoining called Lammas ground; - 2 closes called Lady Closes containing 17 acres called Mixells; all in Segenhoe with Ridgmond, formerly in the occupation of John Grimes, since of Edward Butterfield; - 1/2 acre of of ley ground under Norwood Hedge next Littlington Field in Segenhoe and Littlington, formerly in the occupation of Richard Barnwell, since of Edward Butterfield; all which last-mentioned premises are now in the occupations of John Horn and William Abbiss; - a messuage in the North End of Woburne, formerly in the occupation of Simon Taylor senior (grandfather of the said Simon Taylor), since of Ann Smith, and Garlands Grove containing 2 acres adjoining; - a messuage in Woburne late in the occupation of Edward Gurney.
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