Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    R6/5/5/10
  • Title
    Feoffment
  • Date free text
    30 October 1670
  • Production date
    From: 1670 To: 1670
  • Scope and Content
    Feoffment Parties: (i) Joseph Hobson of Saint James, Clerkenwell [Middlesex], gentleman; (ii) Mary Risely of Bedford, widow Reciting: - will of Robert Tilney of Bedford, gentleman, deceased, of 28 April 1668 devising (a) to (i), Samuel Desborow of Elsworth [Cambridgeshire], gentleman and William Whitbread of Cardington, gentleman [trustees for sale]; - proof of the will in Chancery; - William Whitbread disclaimed trusteeship on 10 April 1669; - Samuel Desborow disclaimed trusteeship on 27 October 1669 Operative Part: - (i) enfeoffed (a)-(e) to (ii) for £900 Property: (a) messuage in Bedford, Saint Peter de Merton formerly in the occupation of Robert Tilney, now Mary Tilney, widow with Bendhouse Lane S, a tenement of John Wyffin N, Saint Peter’s Green E; (b) close of pasture adjoining (a) of two acres; (c) cottage in the occupation of John Catlyn in Bendhouse Lane (a)-(c) were formerly held by Richard Lavender and conveyed to Richard Tilney [R6/5/5/7] (d) piece of arable called Hoggheards Piece, Bedford, Saint Cuthbert containing 13 acres formerly in the occupation of Robert Gale lying next to: Fishpond Closes E; half an acre of Peck's Farm in the occupation of John Clayton W; Millers Leys and Millers Piece S; land of Thomas Hawes in the occupation of William Laundy and others S; (e) forty acres of arable dispersed in the fields of Bedford and Goldington viz. 17 acres in Windmill Field; 3acres in Bury Field; 20 acres in Newnham Field Witnesses: Henry Sutch and John Rush or Rust Memorandum of entry by Robert Fitzhugh on behalf of Mary Risely, witnessed by Thomas Bromsall, William Laundy [by mark], S. Hanwell and William Mann [by mark]
  • Language
    Latin
  • Level of description
    item
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