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Mortgage by Demise for 500 Years

31 October 1670

From: 1670 To: 1670

Mortgage by Demise for 500 years Parties: (i) Mary Risely of Bedford, widow; (ii) Joseph Hobson of Saint James, Clerkenwell [Middlesex], gentleman Operative Part: - (i) borrowed £450 at 6% interest secured on (a)-(e) 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: - Thomas Bromsall; - William Whitbread; - Robert Fitzhugh; - S. Hanwell

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Risely, Mary,
Hobson, Joseph,
Tilney, Robert,
Tilney, Mary,
Wyffin, John,
Catlyn, John,
Lavender, Richard,
Gale, Robert,
Clayton, John,
Hawes, Thomas,
Laundy, William,
Bromsall, Thomas,
Whitbread, William,
Fitzhugh, Robert,
Hanwell, S

BEDFORD, widow, St. Peter de Merton Bedford, Bedford Bendhouse Lane, Bedford Saint Peter's Green, Bedford fields, Bedford Peck's Farm, GOLDINGTON, Goldington fields, literacy