Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    HY525-6
  • Title
    Marriage Settlement: copy Lease and Release. £2,000.
  • Date free text
    16, 17 May 1695
  • Production date
    From: 1695 To: 1695
  • Scope and Content
    (i) Humphrey Fish of Ickwell esquire and wife Katherine, son Humphrey, of Gray’s Inn, gentleman, Roger Conningsby of North Mimms, Hertfordshire esquire, John Pedley of Lincoln’s Inn, esquire. (ii) William Dobyns of Lincoln’s Inn, esquire, Richard Bentley clerk, HM Library Keeper, Robert Raymond of Gray’s Inn, esquire. (iii) Edward Bishop of Worcester, and daughter Anne Stillingfleet, and son James Stillingfleet. (iv) Thomas Brown of Arlesey esquire, James Forrester of Broadfield, Hertfordshire esquire, John Dell of Woodford, Northamptonshire, clerk, the Bishop of Worcester, Richard Palmer of Wookingham, Berkshire, esquire, and Samuel Robinson of Cheshunt, Hertfordshire esquire. Marriage between Humphrey Fish junior and Anne Stillingfleet. -- messuage or farmhouse, 14 acres pasture; Home close, Ramseys and Cow closes, Wiltshire close in Ickwell in the occupation of Alice Clerk widow; 135 acres arable, 15 acres sward, 7 acres 1 rood meadow in Ickwell, Northill, Over and Nether Caldecot, in the occupation of Alice Clerk; messuage or farmhouse, farmyard and close of pasture (3 acres), Close called Covins (6 acres), Harvey close (2½ acres) in Over Caldecot, formerly Jonathan Abbis and John Day, since of John Middleton, now Humphrey Fish senior, Richard Mills, William Tompion gentleman. 152 acres arable, 5 acres sward, 16 acres meadow in Ickwell, Northill, Over and Nether Caldecot; cottage with barn, garden and orchard, close of pasture (4 acres), and a common baulk adjoining in Ickwell, 1 acre meadow in Caldecot meadow, in the occupation of Stephen Thomas at £7. 6s. per annum; cottage with barn, orchard, hempland and close (2 acres) in Ickwell, in the occupation of Richard Lands at £5. 10s. per annum; cottage with barn, stable, slaughterhouse and close of pasture (2 acres) in the occupation of Mary Pateman widow, at £6 per annum, in Ickwell; cottage and close (2 acres), and close of sward (1½ acres) in Northill, and, 6 acres arable in Northill, in the occupation of John Wray, at £6 per annum; cottage, barn, orchard, hempland, close of pasture (2 acres), close of sward (1½ acres), in Caldecot, with an acre hook and swarth of meadow, in Caldecot, in the occupation of Thomas Gillyons (Gillions?), at £5 per annum; Park wood, Old Warden (141 acres); 40 acres pasture, late part of Park wood, lately grubbed up, 2 messuages, lately built thereon, and pightle of pasture called Dansybowers in the occupation of William Gilman; messuage or house in Bedford formerly in the occupation of Nicholas Colton, now Humphrey Colton apothecary; capital messuage or mansion house in Ickwell in the occupation of Humphrey Fish senior; 2 closes of pasture called Wellhead and Calves closes (3 acres); 2 closes of pasture called Mote closes (5 acres); 1 close of pasture called Broad mead (5 acres); 1 close of pasture called Broxes (6 acres), and 2 groves or spinneys (2 acres), 1 adjoining the capital messuage, the other called Sallow grove lying at the end of Broxes close; all in Ickwell, in the occupation of Humphrey Fish senior; cottage close, (1 acre), in Ickwell, in the occupation of John Swinscoe; cottage, smith’s shop and close of pasture (1 acre) in Ickwell, in the occupation of Edward Hospital; cottage, garden and orchard (1 acre) in Ickwell, in the occupation of Richard Wiltshire; cottage, orchard and grove (1 acre) in Ickwell, in the occupation of William Albone; cottage, orchard, garden and hempland (3 roods), in Ickwell in the occupation of John Topham; cottage, barn, hempland and close of pasture (1 acre) in Ickwell, in the occupation of Thomas Tingee; cottage etc as in preceding occupied by Lawrence Peete; cottage, garden and yard (1 rood) and ½ acre arable in Ickwell, in the occupation of John Rush; cottage, close of pasture (3 acres) in Northill, in the occupation of Jonathon Lawe; cottage, barn, orchard, hempland (1 acre), Caldecot, in the occupation of Benjamin Squire; cottage, barn, garden, close of pasture (1 acre), Caldecot, in the occupation of John Wiggins; 7 roods arable, 4 acres meadow in Over and Nether Caldecot, in the occupation of William Halfhead, at £3 per annum; ½ part of the rectory of Southill and Broom, and all appurtenances, lands formerly in the occupation of Henry Upwood, Thomas Upwood, Thomas Inskip; now by Thomas Dilley and Thomas Inskip; 2 messuages or farmhouses, 2 closes of pasture adjoining (10 acres), grove of wood (2 acres) in Broom, Southill, formerly in the occupation of William Deere deceased, now - Deere widow, and 140 acres arable, 10 acres meadow in Broom; cottage and smith’s shop, close of pasture, 2 groves (4 acres) in Broom in the occupation of Nicholas Blewitt; cottage, barn, shop and hempland, close of pasture (2 acres), in the occupation of Thomas Alban; cottage, barn and hempland in the occupation of Thomas Gibbs; cottage, barn and orchard in the occupation of Robert Field; all in Broom; lately (with other Broom property) purchased by Humphrey Fish senior from John Cumberland gentleman, deceased.
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