Scope and Content
Mortgage
Parties:
(i) Joseph Norris of Ridgmont, farmer;
(ii) William Henry Denison of Wavendon [Buckinghamshire], esquire; John Green of Woburn, Esquire
Operative Part:
- (i) borrowed £6,000 at 4% interest from (ii) on security of (a)-(g).
Property:
(a) farmhouse with yard, garden and orchard in Husborne Crawley in the occupation of Ardley;
(b) Home Close – 3 acres, 3 roods, 20 poles of pasture bounded: N by old inclosure of the Duke of Bedford called Maggot Pit Close; E by road from Church End to Ridgmont ; S by land formerly of Joseph Perrin, now Mrs. Moser; part W by (c); part W by Lower Field;
(c) Top Close – 7 acres, 1 rood, 20 poles of pasture, part of the first allotment to John Goodman in 1799; bounded: part E by (d); part E by Maggot Pit Close; part E by Home Close; S, W and N by other (d);
(d) Lower Field – 51 acres, 2 roods, 6 poles of arable, part of the first allotment and all of the third allotment to John Goodman and part of an allotment to Ann Goodman in 1799; bounded: N by land of London & North Western Railway Company; NE by Long Leys; E by Maggot Pit Close; part E by Top Close; part E by Home Close; part E by land of Mrs. Moser; S and SE by road from Church End to Aspley Guise; W by land of William Fitzwilliam How;
(e) Maggot Pit, 10 acres, 1 rood, 30 poles of pasture; part of the first allotment to John Goodman in 1799; bounded: NE by Long Leys; E by old inclosure of Duke of Bedford called Thorney Close; S by Maggot Pit Close; W by Top Close and part of Lower Field;
(f) Long Leys – 17 acres, 3 roods, 24 poles of pasture, part of the allotment to Ann Goodman and first allotment to John Goodman in 1799; bounded: N by land of LNWR; NE by land of Robert Orlebar;, formerly Daniel Shipton; SE by the road from Church End to Ridgmont; S by ThorneyClose; SW by Maggot Pit and Lower Field;
(g) arable land of 9 acres, 2 roods, 25 poles in Hill Field called Crows End or Trows End together with a piece of land awarded as the second allotment to John Goodman in 1799; bounded: W by the road from Church End to Lidlington and Marston Moretaine; S, SE and E by allotment to the Duke of Bedford; N and NE by private lane belonging to Duke of Bedford;
(h) cottage in two tenements in Ridgmont formerly in the occupation of John Bowler then Forest and Cummerley;
(i) land in Low Field, Ridgmont, of two roods, part of a plot of land formerly on 1 acre, 38 poles, bounded: N by ancient inclosed lands called Brogborough Park; part E by the third allotment to the Duke of Bedford at inclosure; part E by allotment to John Batley; S by the Hulcote road; W by allotment to Daniel Norris, deceased, in Husborne Crawley;
(j) land in Red Field, Husborne Crawley, of 4 acres, 1 rood, part of a plot of land formerly of 5 acres, 3 roods, 24 poles bounded: part N, NE and SE by Ridgmont; S by the Hulcote road; part N and W by second allotment to the Duke of Bedford;
(k) Richmond Arms lately erected by Joseph Norris;
(l) farmhouse in Bury End, Eversholt, with homestead, garden and orchard in the occupation of Joseph Norris; (m) six closes of arable, meadow and pasture adjoining (l) and containing together twenty eight acres
Witness: Samuel H. Barton, clerk to John Green
Endorsements:
- part repayment of £2,790 on 1 January 1868 on sale of some of the premises;
- part repayment of £1,000 on 1 July 1871;
- part repayment of £1,000 on 1 July 1873
- part repayment of £1,000 on 1 January 1875;
- part repayment of £1,000 on 1 July 1875