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Lease and release for making a tenant to the precipe (see also AD2959):

1 & 2 Nov 1824

From: 1824 To: 1824

i) Lord Ongley ii) Mordaunt Lawson Clennell, Staple Inn, London, gentleman iii) Samuel Veasey, Baldock, Hertfordshire, gentleman for barring estates tail and for assuring absolute inheritance in i) i) releases to ii) - manors of Southhill and Stanford - manor of Hill in Old Warden - capital messuage or mansion house wherein said Lord Ongley now dwells, in Old Warden - 2 closes land in Old Warden (2 acres) in occupation of Lord Ongley - closes ground called “The Park”, “The Paddocks”, “The Cherry Orchard”, “Bowling Green Piece”, “The Cherry Orchard or Blacksmith’s Close”, in Old Warden and in occupation of Lord Ongley contains, with site of mansion house, 173 acres - warren or wood ground in Old Warden and small part in Southill called “The Warren” (123 acres formerly said to contain 300acres) and the summer house thereon also in occupation of Lord Ongley, and spinneys etc. (30 acres 3 roods 21 perches) in Old Warden and Northill, in occupation of Lord Ongley - spinneys in Southill (23 acres 3 roods) in occupation of Lord Ongley * farmhouse in Old Warden in occupation of John Davies and late of George Neal, and ground belonging and used by John Davies as tenant to Lord Ongley (153 acres 3 roods and 30 perches) in Old Warden and Southill i.e. 10 acres 1 rood 28 perches of arable and 76 acres 1 rood 16 perches of meadow in Old Warden and 43 acres 2 roods 4 perches arable and 23 acres 2 roods and 22 perches meadow in Southill ** farmhouse in Old Warden in occupation of John Whitteridge - land belonging occupied by John Whitteridge as tenant to Lord Ongley (96 acres 2 roods 10 perches) in Old Warden and Northill 12 acres 30 perches in Northill and remainder in Old Warden *** farmhouse in Old Warden late in occupation of William Mitchell and now of Prime Coleman - land belonging occupied by Prime Coleman as tenant to Lord Ongley (27 acres 1 rood 6 perches) in Old Warden and Southill. i.e.86 acres 3 roods 20 perches arable and 87 acres 3 roods 48 perches meadow in Old Warden and 87 acres 3 roods 29 perches arable and 13 acres 2 roods 19 perches meadow in Southill - public house called “Hare and Hounds” etc. (3 acres) **** Cottage in Old Warden in occupation of Sarah Sear (4 acres) **** Cottages in Old Warden in occupations of Thomas Preston, John South, Thomas Collop, Thomas Willshere, Thomas Roberts, Benjamin Robinson, George Goodship, Samuel Harradine, William Wells, William Sims, Samuel Hudson, Samuel Mantel, Edward Samuel, Philip Wheatley, Abraham Wheatley, Thomas Sir, William Kilby, John Sir, Thomas Wheatley, William Mantel, James Beagerie, Fanny Woodley, Samuel Waring, Samuel Ward, Joseph Bryant, William York, Sarah Bygrave, Thomas Street, James Trueman, William Peacock, Joseph Nott, Samuel Goodship, George Wheatley, Daniel Dickins, Mary Willshere, Benjamin Barnes, William Barnes senior, Edward Jackson, William Purser, William Goodwin, James Hart, James Burrage, William Ford, John Dickins, James Dilley, William Barnes junior, William Wright, Thomas Wells, Ellis Hare, William Hills, William Marston and William Nind ***** other farmhouse in Hill in Old Warden late in occupation of Robert Green and now of Samuel Wells, esquire - land belonging same occupants, (284 acres 3 roods 8 perches) in Old Warden and Southill i.e. 144 acres 3 roods 7 perches arable, 5 acres 3 roods 16 perches meadow and 77 acres 2 roods 37 perches pasture in Old Warden and 41 acres 2 roods 7 perches arable and 14 acres 3 roods 21 perches pasture in Southill ****** farmhouse in Hill in Old Warden late in occupation of William Holder and now of George Neal. ---------------------------------- (From abstract of title of March 1872 – [SL 1/156] * Yew Tree Farm ** Mount Pleasant *** Horne Farm formerly Townsends **** The Village Close ***** Lower Hill Farm ****** Kings Hill) -------------------------------- - land belonging same occupiers (307 acres 2 roods 17 perches) in Old Warden and Southill i.e.174 acres 8 perches arable and all the meadow and pasture in Old Warden and 42 acres 1 rood 15 perches – the remainder of the arable – in Broom in Southill - cottages in Hill let to George Neal and in occupations of James Willsher and William Fuller * farmhouse in Hill and Old late in occupation of James Kingsley and now of Charles Plyer **+ land belonging . Same occupiers (274 acres 2 roods 8 perches) in Hill and Old Warden + 4 cottages at Frog’s Hall in occupations of William Brunt, William Warner, John Bygrave and Robert Bunting + lands (meadow or pasture) in Hill Meadow in Old Warden *** 11 acres 22 perches in occupation of Mr. Lawrence Gall 3 acres 3 roods 17 perches in occupation of Richard Richardson and of said Samuel Wells 5 acres in occupation of John Graves 2 acres 2 roods 18 perches in occupation of John Willis, esquire 6 acres 3 roods in occupation of William Crouch 4 acres 2 roods 28 perches in occupation of Mr.Thomas Magrath 9acres 2 roods 27 perches in occupation of Thomas Perkins - all rectorial and vicarial or great and small tithes etc. payable to Lord Ongley within hamlet of Hill and Hill Meadow and farm in occupation of Prime Coleman and any other lands of Lord Ongley in Old Warden + 4 pieces land in Biggleswade (4 acres) in occupation of John Graves + 5 acres 2 roods in Biggleswade near the Mills there in occupation of Henry Squires formerly part of a certain meadow called Gore and Smith’s Meadow + messuage in Broom in Southill in occupation of Samuel Wells **** lands belonging etc. held by Samuel Wells as tenant to Lord Ongley (65 acres 11 perches) in Broom and Southill ***** messuage or farmhouse in Broom in occupation of Samuel Neal and Sarah Sarl ++ closes land belonging (256 acres 14 perches) in Broom in Southill also in occupation of Samuel Neal and Sarah Sarl - The Lodge, divided into 3, in Southill in Occupations of Margaret Sims, Elizabeth Nottingham and Thomas Elliman + cottages in Broom in occupation of George Dilley, George Green, Elizabeth Hawkins, John Head, William Rook, John Sills and John Field +++ close (3 acres) in Clifton, late in occupation of _ Wright and now of _ Wright, his son - messuage or farmhouse at Chalton otherwise Chaulton in parish of Blunham, in occupation of John Freshwater - lands adjoining (74 acres 2 roods 15 perches) also in occupation of John Freshwater - farmhouse in Channels End, Colmworth, sometime in occupation of William Wiles, since of John Tingey and now of James Ford and pieces of enclosed and open field land and other belonging (153 acres) in same occupation - 2 closes of new enclosed arable in Roxton (28 acres) also in occupation of James Ford - farmhouse in Colmworth, sometime in occupation of Russell Chapman, afterwards of Benjamin Lee, since of John West and now of Thomas Stringer - land belonging (93 acres 1 rood) in Colmworth, formerly in occupation of Russell Chapman, afterwards of Benjamin Lee, since of John West and now of Thomas Stringer - farmhouse in Church End, Colmworth, S. – highway, late in occupation of Richard Stringer and now of _ Shearman - land belonging (32 acres 1 rood) in Colmworth, late in occupation of etc. as before - 2 cottages in Churchend in Colmworth let to _ Shearman with said last mentioned farm - close arable in Eaton Socon (5 acres) ___________________________ (From abstract of March 1872 [SL 1/156] + not sold to Shuttleworth with main property in September 1872 ++ part sold to Shuttleworth as above (57 acres 2 roods 36 perches) * part of Knights Farm, part of Palmers ** Upper Hill Farm *** part of Knights Farm **** Higgs part of new allotment under enclosure ***** Broom Farm Abstract ends after +++) ____________________________ - farmhouse in Pulloxhill - land (74 acres 2 roods) called the Home Close, Spinney Close with spinney adjoining, Nether Catsbrook, Farther Catsbrook, the Eight Acres, Barn Close, Nether Great Ground, Farther Great Ground and Bushy Close - close called Plowed Bushy Close (-acres) in Pulloxhill - new enclosed arable (6 acres) in Silsoe all which said last mentioned farmhouse, lands etc. are now in occupation of Jonathan Abbott - all other manors, messuages etc. of said Lord Ongley in Bedford of which he is seized of in tail, together with all woods, common rights, court rights etc. to hold to ii) and his heirs to his use, so that he may become a perfect tenant of the freehold in order that common recoveries may be suffered there-upon for which purpose it is agreed that one or more writs of entry sur desseizin en le post shall be sued forth by iii) out of Chancery against ii) before end of next Michaelmas term. To which writs said ii) shall appear and vouch to warranty the common vouchee etc. Property to be held to corrobate an annual sum or yearly rent of £1200 by an indenture of 30 Aug 1824 (SL 1/30) signatures all endorsed witnesses: Charlotte Gordon Robert Williamson William Stocken

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Ongley of Old Warden, Robert Henley-Ongley, 3rd Baron,
Clennell, Mordaunt Lawson,
Veasey, Samuel,
Davies, John,
Neal, George,
Whitteridge, John,
Mitchell, William,
Coleman, Prime,
Sear, Sarah,
Preston, Thomas,
South, John,
Collop, Thomas,
Wilshere, Thomas,
Roberts, Thomas,
Robinson, Benjamin,
Goodship, George,
Harradine, Samuel,
Wells, William,
Hudson, Samuel,
Mantel, Samuel,
Samuel, Edward,
Wheatley, Philip,
Wheatley, Abraham,
Sir, Thomas,
Kilby, William,
Sir, John,
Wheatley, Thomas,
Mantel, William,
Beagarie, James,
Woodley, Fanny,
Waring, Samuel,
Ward, Samuel,
Bryant, Joseph,
York, William,
Bygrave, Sarah,
Street, Thomas,
Trueman, James,
Peacock, William,
Nott, Joseph,
Goodship, Samuel,
Wheatley, George,
Dickins, Daniel,
Willshere, Mary,
Barnes, Benjamin,
Barnes, William,
Jackson, Edward,
Purser, William,
Goodwin, William,
Hart, James,
Burrage, James,
Ford, William,
Dickins, John,
Dilley, James,
Wright, William,
Wells, Thomas,
Hare, Ellis,
Hills, William,
Marston, William,
Nind, William,
Green, Robert,
Wells, Samuel,
Holder, William,
Neal, George,
Willsher, James,
Fuller, William,
Kingsley, James,
Plyer, Charles,
Brunt, William,
Warner, William,
Bygrave, John,
Bunting, Robert,
Richardson, Richard,
Graves, John,
Willis, John,
Crouch, William,
Magrath, Thomas,
Perkins, Thomas,
Squires, Henry,
Neal, Samuel,
Sarl, Sarah,
Sims, Margaret,
Nottingham, Elizabeth,
Elliman, Thomas,
Dilley, George,
Green, George,
Hawkins, Elizabeth,
Head, John,
Rook, William,
Sills, John,
Field, John,
Wright,
Freshwater, John,
Wiles, William,
Tingey, John,
Ford, James,
Chapman, Russell,
Lee, Benjamin,
West, John,
Stringer, Thomas,
Stringer, Richard,
Shearman,
Abbott, Jonathan,
Gordon, Charlotte,
Williamson, Robert,
Stocken, William

DEEDS, Staples Inn, Baldock, Southill Manor, Southill Stanford Manor, Hill Manor, Old Warden, OLD WARDEN, SOUTHILL, NORTHILL, Old Warden Yew Tree Farm, Old Warden Mount Pleasant Farm, Old Warden Horne Farm, Old Warden farms, Old Warden Hare & Hounds, cottages, Old Warden Lower Hill Farm, Old Warden Kings Hill Farm, Broom, Old Warden Frog Hall, BIGGLESWADE, Chalton (Blunham), COLMWORTH, ROXTON, Colmworth farms, Colmworth Church End, EATON SOCON, PULLOXHILL, Pulloxhill farms, Pulloxhill fields, SILSOE, BEDFORD