Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    WG1088
  • Title
    Marriage settlement (copy; release only), £7500: (i) Nathaniel Mason of London, merchant (son of Nathaniel Mason and nephew of Thomas Edwards) (ii) Ann Hunt of Aldersgate, widow of Thomas late alderman of Coventry (iii) Ann Hunt, daughter of (ii) (iv) Thomas Hunt of London, merchant (brother of (iii)), Joseph Paice of same. On marriage of (i) and (iii): farm house at Irchester [Details of other properties] Witnesses: Morgan Morse, John Neale
  • Date free text
    9 Jun 1759
  • Production date
    From: 1759 To: 1759
  • Scope and Content
    Details of other properties: -- farm house at Irchester; 127 acres 1 rood 35 perches land, in the occupation of William Lewis; -- cottages in Irchester, in the occupation of Henry Norris and Joseph Smeeton; -- messuage in Winkfield, Berkshire; 2 closes in same; Shelton: -- Mill field 22 acres 2 roods 25 perches; -- Pasture field 20 acres 3 roods 36 perches; -- Middle field 24 acres 16 perches; -- Upper Dean field 3 acres 2 roods 3 perches; -- Upper Dean Mill field 3 acres 1 rood 18 perches; -- Enclosed grounds 10 acres 1 rood 19 perches; In all 85 acres 39 perches. Now in the occupation of Samuel Negus. -- cottages in Shelton, in the occupation of Henry Burnham and James Wise. -- blacksmith's shop adjoining, in the occupation of ... Burgess. -- cottage, in the occupation of Samuel Wise. -- close (7 roods) adjoining. -- 14 acres 1 rood arable in Shelton (purchased of Powlett, Earl of Bolingbroke, Thomas Barry and Joseph Symonds). Field Names (Shelton): - Mill field: Grove furlong, Bocclers furlong, Low Dunsted furlong, Dunsted Herding, Kings Slade, Hunger Hill furlong, Copple Hedge furlong, Hargrave side furlong; - Middle Field: Quickset furlong, Short water furrows, Willow slade furlong, Stockwell slade , Bush furlong; - Pasture field: Edgegrove furlong, Feddel slade, Stanward way furlong, Toft furlong, Mazebaulk furlong; - Dunsted field: Hyhill furlong, Buck furlong. All which property in Shelton in the occupation of Samuel Wise; late purchased by (i) of same. -- Farm house in Sharnbrook; Harpers Leys, Butlers leys, Butlers pightle, Green End close alias Stanbridges close, Molestaft alias Molescraft spinney (25 acres); 70 acres arable. In the occupation of Nathaniel Newman. -- Farm in Wooton and Kempston, late in the occupation of Humphrey Fensham, then Lewis Barham, now Ann Barham. -- 3 closes called Hawes adjoining (40 acres), close (12 acres), Kieley close and the Wood closes in Wootton (38 acres), Stubleys pightle (4 acres), the Hooes, late Great Hooe closes in Wootton (35 acres). In the same occupation. -- cottage, 2 pightles (2 1/2 acres) in Kiely End, Wootton, 1 acre in Long furlong, 1/2 acre in common field, Lott mead in Brodmead, Wootton, in the same occupation. -- Keely End Farm, late Thomas Edwards, in Wootton and Kempston, devised to (i) by will of 1 June 1754, in the occupation of Ann Barham.
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