Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    SL1/289
  • Title
    Lease and Release:
  • Date free text
    10 & 11 Apr 1804, 4 & 5 May 1827
  • Production date
    From: 1804 To: 1827
  • Scope and Content
    i) Sir Martin Browne Folkes, Hillington, Norfolk, baronet Richard Graves Townley, Fulborne, Cambridgeshire, esquire ii) Edmund Rolfe, junior, Heacham, Norfolk, esquire Catherine Frances, his wife iii) Emery Palmer, Bedford, gentleman iv) John Purser, gentleman i) conveys to iii) consideration - £8900 - all Goldington property as before, now in occupation of iii) as tenant to Edmund Rolfe property now known to contain the following quantities --- capital messuage, in occupation of John Davies, esquire, with adjoining croft called Dove House Close, etc. (2 acres) --- 2 closes pasture called Crickets Close and Corner Close (5 acres) --- close, whereon cottage formerly stood, called Felts Close (1½ acres) --- close pasture, whereon cottage formerly stood, called Grant’s Close (3 acres) --- Calves Close (3 acres) --- Coleman’s Close (3 acres) --- close whereon a cottage formerly stood called Moat Close (6 acres) --- 2 cottages etc. (1 acre) now occupied by Thomas Joyce and Thomas Cooke --- cottage now divided into 2 (2 roods) in occupations of William Day and William Wagstaffe --- 8 pieces in Great Meadow (8 acres) --- 3 pieces in Press Meadow (3½ acres) ---4 pieces in East Meadow (7 acres 1 rood) --- 3 pieces in Work Holme Meadow (5 acres 2 roods) --- close arable in Windmill Field called 7 acre Close --- close in same field called 12 acre Close (12 acres) --- several pieces arable and pasture land in Goldington common fields ----- 2 lands in Windmill Fields ----- in Appeldine ------- 1 acre 10 lands and a gore ------- 6 short lands abutting crossways ------- 4 acres 14 lands and 2 headlands ------- 2 acres ----- In Long Pole Furlong ------- lands (15 acres) ----- In Black butts Furlong ------- 10 lands (2½ acres) ----- In Renhold Brook Furlong ------- 19 lands 2 gores (8½ acres) ------- 25 other lands and 2 gores (9 acres 3 roods) ---- In Lower Sheeplands ------- 23 lands (12 acres) ---- In Middle Furlong ------- 2 lands (1 acre) ---- In Windmill Hill ------- 7 lands (3 acres) ---- In Brien Hill Furlong ------- 15 lands and a gore (6 acres) ---- In Sheeplands ------- 5 lands (1½ acres) ---- In St.Neot’s Way Furlong -------34 lands and a headland (12½ acres) ---- In Furlong south of St.Neot’s Way Furlong ------- 44 lands (10 acres) --- pasture next common close (2 acres) --- pasture next Tomlinson’s homestead, with cottage thereon (1 rood now in occupation of Thomas Nottingham --- 1 headland and 2 lands enclosed --- lower part of Lawes (1 acre) --- 4 lands and a gore (2 acres) --- St.Foyne Close (8 acres 2 roods) --- 8 lands --- Great Every Year’s Land (3 acres) --- Bedford Way Furlong ---- In Church Field -------17 lands 1 gore (6 acres 3 roods) --- In Green Ditch Furlong ----- 24 lands (11½ acres) --- In Manhill Furlong ----- 19 lands (6 acres 3 roods) --- In Bowhill Furlong ----- 8 lands (2 acres) --- In Stonehill Furlong ----- 9 lands, 2 gores (5 acres) --- In Putnoe Street Furlong ----- 51 land, a gore and a headland (25 acres 3 roods) --- In Crickett’s Furlong ----- 16 lands (4 acres) --- In Churchill Furlong ----- 25 lands and a headland (5 acres) - Church Close (5 acres) - Hemp Close (3 acres) - In River Field --- Lanes End Furlong ----- 4 lands (1 acre) --- Lower Dean Furlong ----- 8 lands (4 acres) --- Dean Furlong ----- 12 lands (6 acres) --- Newnham Leys Furlong ----- 8 lands (4 acres) --- Narrow Highway Furlong ----- 34 lands (15 acres 1 rood) --- Sanders Leys ----- 4 lands (2 acres) --- Wanbacon Furlong ----- 8 lands, gore (7 acres 3 roods) --- Middle Furlong ----- 3 lands (1½ acres) --- Cross Furlong ----- 5 lands (2 acres) --- Key Furlong ----- 37 lands (16 acres 3 roods) --- Milking Baulk Furlong ----- 23 lands and a headland (10 acres) - 4 closes pasture called Arrowleys in Ravensden (32 acres) - all other freehold messuages, lands etc. of ii) in Goldington and Ravensden iv) – trustee to preserve contingent remainders covenant to produce title deeds (as in schedule) schedule: SL1/283 SL1/284 SL1/286 signatures i) and ii) endorsed witnesses Thomas Lambert, Red Lion Square, Middlesex George Cookes William Pemberton, Newton, Cambridgeshire, clerk Christopher Pemberton, Cambridge, attorney at law Robert Crowe, clerk, Burnham, Norfolk Thomas Richardson, Stanhoe, Norfolk, blacksmith 10 and 11 Apr 1804 endorsed with note as to lease and release of 4 and 5 May 1827 a) Charles Short Benjamin Jefferies (devisees in trust named in will of George Palmer who was only brother and heir at law of Emery Palmer) b) John Palmer, son and heir and residuary devisee of said George Palmer c) Thomas Warner, Bedford, yeoman - closes called Arrowleys in Ravensden conveyed to iii) in fee subject to redemption on payment of £800 and interest conveyance for production of main deeds
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