Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    R6/5/5/56
  • Title
    Katherine Haselden’s version of a deed to lead to the uses of a fine and common recovery for which see R6/5/5/55
  • Date free text
    21 October 1717
  • Production date
    From: 1717 To: 1741
  • Scope and Content
    Elizabeth Haselden’s version of a deed to lead to the uses of a fine and common recovery Parties: (i) Elizabeth Haselden of Colmworth, spinster; Katherine Haselden of Colmworth, spinster; (ii) Francis Brace of Bedford, gentleman; (iii) William Hillersdon of Elstow, esquire Reciting: - (i) were seised of (a)-(l) and a half share of (m)-(w) (the other half being held by William Feany of Huntingdon, gentleman); (i) had agree to sell (w) and divide the proceeds between them and to partition (a)-(v) between them Operative Part: - (iii) paid 5/- each to (i); - (i) covenanted with (iii) to levy a fine sur conizance de droit come ceo etc. in order to bar and destroy all estates in tail and make (iii) a perfect tenant of the freehold to suffer a common recovery Property: (a) capital messuage called Berrystead, Goldington in the occupation of James Wiffin and land as follows: two closes called Home Closes containing 15 acres; Church Close, sward, containing 7 acres; The Cluse containing 8 acres lying between Cluse Wood and Puttenhoe Field; Two Parsleys Closes containing together 8 acres; 86 acres of arable and leys and 14 acres of meadow in Newolds Meadow; 5 acres of meadow in East Meadow; two spinneys called Parsleys Wood and Cluse Wood all in Goldington and in the occupation of John Wiffin at the rent of £100 per annum; (b) messuage and orchard in Bedford, Saint Peter de Merton in the occupation of William Risely at £7 per annum rent; (c) 50 acres of arable in the common fields of Bedford in the occupation of William Risely at £22/10/- per annum rent; (d) a little close in Bedford in the occupation of William Risely at £3/10/- per annum rent; (e) messuage, malting, yard, gardens and backsides in Bedford in the occupation of John Mason at £7/10/- per annum rent; (f) Peacock Inn, Bedford, in the occupation of Joseph Wiffin at £6/15/- per annum rent; (g) messuage in Bedford in the occupation of Mrs. Cobb at £6 per annum rent; (h) two tenements in Bedford in the occupation of Thomas Langford and Simon Howard at £3 per annum rent; (i) tenement in Bedford in the occupation of Robert Brewer at forty shillings per annum rent; (j) Dovehouse Close in Bedford, Saint Paul, in the occupation of William Risely at £11/15/- per annum rent; (k) farmhouse and two cottages at Beeston, Thorncote and Hatch, Northill in the occupation of Edward Walker; (l) 170 acres of arable in the common fields of Northill, Beeston and Sandy in the occupation of Edward Walker at £88 per annum rent; (m) Manor of Milton alias Milton Ernest alias Babbs; (n) farmhouse in Milton Ernest and 72 acres of arable, 9½ acres of meadow and 7 acres of pasture in the occupation of Israel Pain at £36 per annum rent; (o) farmhouse, 80 acres of arable, 8½ acres of meadow and 3½ acres of pasture in Milton Ernest in the occupation of John Parratt at £29 per annum rent; (p) farmhouse, 73 acres of arable, 13 acres of meadow and 3 acres of pasture in the occupation of Richard Pain at £28 per annum rent; (q) 68 acres of arable, 4 acres of meadow and two acres of pasture in Milton Ernest in the occupation of Douglas Little at £21 per annum rent; (r) cottage with the royalty of rushes growing in the Great Ouse at Milton Ernest in the occupation of Francis Earle with three acres of arable, one acre of meadow and one acre of pasture at £4 per annum rent; (s) wood of 12 acres in Milton Ernest, the underwood of which was valued at £4 “and the growth of the spires thereof” at £1 per acre; (t) cottage in Milton Ernest in the occupation of John Millard at 40 shillings per annum rent; (u) cottage in Milton Ernest in the occupation of Richard Rogers at 40 shillings per annum rent; (v) cottage and half an acre of land in Milton Ernest in the occupation of Stephen Earle at 30 shillings per annum rent; (w) half share of copyhold cottages etc. at Biggleswade held of the Manor of Biggleswade Burgage Witnesses: - Thomas Berkeley; - Edward Cowley; - John Smith. Endorsed with various receipts of interest 1735-1741
  • Language
    Latin
  • Level of description
    item
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