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Feoffment

1 November 1656

From: 1656 To: 1656

Feoffment Parties: (i) Richard Collyer of Woolavington [Somerset], clerk; (ii) Robert Brooke alias Little of Bedford, gentleman Operative Part: - (i) enfeoffed (a)-(b) to (ii) for £300 Property: (a) close in Bedford, Saint Paul, called Dovehouse Close containing 7½ acres, now divided into two closes of 3 acres in the occupation of Thomas Moakes and William Grant and 4½ acres, including a dovehouse, in the occupation of Peter Lynford bounded by: the close of Thomas Cooper E; closes of Thomas Hawes, gentleman and Sir Henry Campion, formerly Fountain and Albany W; highways and lands N and S; (b) two cottages in the occupation of John Frier and Widow Arthur on the N part of (a); Covenant by (i) to levy a fine within seven years at the Court of the Mayor and Bailiffs of Bedford. Witnesses: - T. Christie; - Nicholas King; - Peter Linford [by mark]; - Robert Welborne; - William Faldoe.

Latin

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Collyer, Richard,
Brooke, Robert,
Little, Robert,
Moakes, Thomas,
Grant, William,
Lynford, Peter,
Cooper, Thomas,
Hawes, Thomas,
Campion, Henry,
Fountain,
Albany,
Frier, John,
Arthur,
Christie, Thomas,
King, Nicholas,
Welborne, Robert,
Faldoe, William

BEDFORD, Bedford fields, clerk, dovehouses, Mayor, literacy