WG891

A file of rentals, terriers, accounts etc

1641 - 1800

From: 1641 To: 1800

Found loose, arranged in order of date and made into a file, January 1936. Folio 1 Rental of Eaton Socon and Great Staughton, Huntingdonshire, properties. Tenants and field-names. 1641 [1 page] Folio 2 Rental [almost identical with Folio 1] and statement of expenditure. Sums payable for each army tax, and parish dues, on Eaton and Staughton properties respectively. [2 pages] 1643 Folio 3 Rental [as in Folio 1]. [1 page] 1642 – 1643 Folio 4 Order for the sequestration of Mrs Geery's estate, and allowance of one-fifth of the income for the maintenance of herself and five children, on account of her husband's delinquency. Recites trust deed for payment of Mr Geery's debts totalling £2566 [see WG 807]. Order made by the Committee [for Parliament] for Bedfordshire. Signed by John Burgoyne, Thomas Alstonn, Francis Astry, John Welles, John [-], John Vaux. [1 page] 1643 - 1644 Folio 5 Statement of income and expenditure, Bushmead Estate. States annual totals for taxes, parish dues, tithes, and repairs, with a few other details. [1 page] 1648 – 1650 Folio 6 Account of timber sold during and after the period of sequestration. Total sums received for oak, ash and under-wood. [half page] 1649 – 1651 Folio 7 Duplicate of Folio 6 (except for one detail). 1649 – 1651 Folio 8 Statement as to William Geerie's debts. Probably submitted to Committee of Parliament. [1 page] No date, c1640s Folio 9 Rental of Mr Gerye's estates in Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire and Northamptonshire. Tenants and rents only. [1 page] No date, probably 1640s -1650s Folio 10 Rental of Charles Gery's estates at Bushmead and Northamptonshire [as in Folio 9, but later]. [1 page] No date, c1700 Folios 11 - 32: Original receipts to the Gerys and others. [For some similar taxation documents, see also PO 14.] Folio 11 Fee-farm rents from manors of Great Staughton, Eaton and Bushmead. [2] 1635, 1641 Folios 12 - 14 Fee-farm rents from manor of Bushmead Priory. [9] 1678 – 1685, 1732 Folios 15 - 16 Compositions for tithes of Eaton Socon. [3] 1678 – 1683 Folio 17 Rent for tithes of Higham Park, Northamptonshire. [3] 1669 – 1671 Folio 18 Rent for Higham Park. 1669/70 Folios 19 - 23 Interest on loans. [8] [See also WG 537 etc] 1678 – 1726 Folios 24 - 29 Certainty money [1], Land Tax [8], Gaol and Hospital Tax [one of the County Rates] [1], and some odd receipts. 1733 – 1735 Folios 30 - 32 Miscellaneous receipts for carriage, etc. 1734 – 1735 Folios 33 - 36 Detailed tailoring accounts rendered to Mr Gery by Edward Audley [of Eaton Socon]. 1727 – 1730 Folios 37 - 40 Medical prescriptions. No date, c1750 Folio 41 Terrier of lands in Wootton. [4 pages] No date, c1750 Folio 42 Memorandum as to rights of common of manor of Blaseworth in Great Staughton, Huntingdonshire, and Eaton Socon, with 6 brief extracts from Bushmead Cartulary, and one from a survey of Bushmead, 1624. [2 pages] No date, c1800

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Geery,
Geerie, William,
Burgoyne, John,
Alstonn, Thomas,
Astry, Francis,
Welles, John,
Vaux, John,
Gerye, William,
Gery, Charles,
Audley, Edward

rentals, terriers, accounts, field names, debt, tithes, timber, Eaton Socon Eaton Manor, Bushmead Manor, Bushmead Priory, certainty money, Land Tax, rates, tailor, prescriptions, estate surveys, EATON SOCON, Great Staughton, Bushmead, Northamptonshire, Higham Park Farm, WOOTTON