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“Notes & memorandum touching my wive’s Jointure at Bedford”

c. 1690

From: 1690 To: 1690

“Notes & memorandum touching my wive’s Jointure at Bedford” Becketts farme - repair the great barne - q about the Comon sans number Suit now depending - q about 20s per anm to ye parson of St Johns - Mr Sendall ab[out] trees cleard, with logging & cutting of the lopps - Mr Cobb sould the entering on the Meadow &v the ten[an]t requires the like at going off - Mr Beckett paid me £40 - the tith of this farme is pd to St Maries in Bedford - to the churche & poore is paid to St Johns The tenants are to leave the land at Mich[aelmas] but the fallow and sheep common at Lady day; but pay the full halfe years Renhold tat Mich: but where the tenant was not bought the entring on the meadow, he is to leave the meadow, as well as ye fallow at Lady day Streats farme - a Cottage to repair; - a Smiths shop to repair - the farme house to repair - a lease of Brazen now Colledge of a house & too acres of Land, £30 per ann, & £20 for repairs - to purchase the lord of the Manors land - John Streat paid me £10 and will retorne the remainder a week after Michl to my chamber at London: he is to sett off xxs. [20 shillings] for the Subsidy to Carrington [Cardington], & same for for Elstow p[ar]ish; & quere of Mr Cobb who is to pay the bridge Money for repair of County Bridges: he will retorne it to me by Hodge a butcher of Hitchin who Innes at the windmill in St Johns Street or by Wm Tayler a drover who lives at Golington neer Bedford. - Mr. Cobb sould the entring on the Meadow & the tennt requires the like at going off - q of Mr Cobb about the tith of 8 acres & a halfe of Fenlake Meadow, which Geo Blundell hath recorded - q a house & good barnes & 28 acres of field land & a close of pasture of 3 acres & 1 acre & a halfe of Meadow, lett at £15 it is Mr Stangars a Brewers clerke: there is wood on it - the Bedford Carrier Innes at the redd lion in Aldersgate Streete

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Hough, Ralph,
Hough, Ursula,
Barton, Ursula,
Boteler, Ursula,
Beckett, Simon,
Sendall,
Cobb,
Street, John,
Hodge,
Tayler, William,
Blundell, George,
Strangars

Bedford Saint Leonard's Farm, BEDFORD, St. John Bedford, estate accounts, sheep, blacksmith, Oxford Brasenose College, CARDINGTON, ELSTOW, Bridge Tax, butcher, Hitchin, Bedford Windmill, GOLDINGTON, Fenlake, Bedford fields, drover, brewer's clerk, Aldersgate Street Red Lion, carrier