X668/156-157

Lease and release: (i) Matthew Parker, Wootton, butcher, and wife Jemima (ii) William Coleman, Cranfield, esquire. Consideration £80 paid to (i) by (ii), (i) release to (ii) 9 acres 1 rood arable in common and open fields of Marston Moretaine now in occupation of Thomas Henman and other land [Details given] Covenant to levy fine. Signatures of (i). Endorsed receipt. Witnesses: Henry Horton, Josiah Chicheley, Griffith Morgan

4 and 5 Jun 1745

From: 1745 To: 1745

Details of land: -- 9 acres 1 rood arable in common and open fields of Marston Moretaine now in occupation of Thomas Henman - 9 lands in Sexwell Field in Whitebread Piece with hedge and ditch adjoining (2 acres) - 4 lands and a headland more lying together in same field in Whitebread Peice (1 acre 1 rood) adjoining to above - 1 acre more in same field on the Middle furlong - 10 lands and 1 headland more in East Field alias Brook Field in Marston Moretaine (5 acres) Said 9 acres 1 rood were purchased by (i) from William Peddar of Ampthill, scrivener [see X 668/153-154] -- 9 lands of which with the headland lie on a furlong formerly called Marsh Brook Hill but now commonly called the Mill Furlong -- one other land being residue thereof on same hill

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Parker, Matthew,
Parker, Jemima,
Coleman, William,
Henman, Thomas,
Horton, Henry,
Chicheley, Josiah,
Morgan, Griffith,
Pedder, William,
Peddar, William

Marston Moretaine farms, deed, butcher, Marston Moretaine fields, field names, scrivener, MARSTON MORETAINE, Marston Moretaine Wroxhill, WOOTTON, CRANFIELD, AMPTHILL