HY549-50

Covenant to levy a Fine, with bond. (i) Humphrey Fish of Ickwell esquire. (ii) Edward Sparhauke of Baldock, Hertfordshire gentleman.

1 May 1721

From: 1721 To: 1721

-- messuage in Bedford, formerly in the occupation of occupation of Nicholas Colton, now one Weele, bookseller; Capital messuage or mansion house in Ickwell, in the occupation of Humphrey Fish, Wellhead and Calves close adjoining (3 acres); 2 closes of pasture called Mote close (5 acres); Broad meadow close (5 acres); Broxes close (6 acres); 2 groves (2 acres), 1 adjoining the capital messuage, other called Sallowgrove, lying at the end of Broxes; all in Ickwell occupied by Humphrey Fish; cottages with varying appurtenances occupied by Richard Wiltshire, William Alban, John Topham, Laurence Peete, Thomas Tingee, John Rush, late Jonathon Lawe, now James Jennings, Benjamin Squire and John Wiggens; 7 roods arable, 4 acres meadow in Over and Nether Caldecot, late in the occupation of William Halfhead; moiety of rectory of Southill; 2 messuages or farmhouses and 2 closes of pasture (10 acres), with grove of wood (2 acres) in Broom; 140 acres arable, 10 acres meadow in Broom; Cottage and smith’s shop in Broom; other Broom property as before. Witnesses: John Nightingale, William Sparhauke.

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Fish, Humphrey,
Sparhauke, Edward,
Colton, Nicholas,
Weele,
Wiltshire, Richard,
Alban, William,
Topham, John,
Peete, Lawrence,
Tingee, Thomas,
Rush, John,
Lawe, Jonathon,
Jennings, James,
Squire, Benjamin,
Wiggens, John,
Halfhead, William,
Nightingale, John,
Sparhauke, William

Ickwell, Baldock, BEDFORD, Over Caldecote, Nether Caldecote, SOUTHILL, Broom, bookseller, Northill fields, field names