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Release

28 July 1753

From: 1753 To: 1753

Release Parties: (i) William Hamerton of Lothbury [City of London], merchant; (ii) John, Duke of Bedford Operative Part: - (i) conveyed (a)-(g) to (ii) for £1,000 Property: (a) close of pasture called Roomer alias Roomead alias Row Mead of 12 acres in Bedford, Saint Mary, abutting: S on the highway from Bedford to Elstow; (b) eight acres of arable in Muzzell Field alias Moswell Field abutting: E on land of the dissolved Saint Leonard’s Hospital; N and NW on the road from Bedford to Ampthill; part S on Row Mead; part S on land formerly of Thomas Peirson of Elstow and formerly belonging to Cauldwell Priory; part S on land formerly of the dissolved Saint John’s Hospital; (c) 31 selions of arable (two of which were gores) containing together 15½ acres in Coneygree Field alias Barksditch Field abutting: E on land of Oliver Boteler, esquire; part W on land of Saint John’s Hospital “a baulk parting them”; part W on Procession Baulk forming the boundary between Bedford and Kempston; N on the highway from Bedford to Kempston; part S on land formerly of Cauldwell Priory; part S on Bell Acre; part S on land formerly of Saint John’s Hospital; (d) 7 acres of arable in Hole Field abutting: N and E on land formerly of Saint John’s Hospital; S on land formerly of Elstow Abbey; (e) 3 acres in Hole Field abutting: E on a ten acre piece formerly of Cauldwell Priory; part S on land formerly of Saint John’s Hospital; N on highway from Bedford to Elstow; (f) 2½ acres of arable in Hole Field abutting: N on (e); S on highway from Kempston to Fenlake; W on land formerly of Saint Leonard’s Hospital “a baulk parting them”; part E on land formerly of Saint John’s Hospital; part E on land of Thomas Peirson of Elstow formerly belonging to Cauldwell Priory; (g) piece of arable of ten acres called Ten Acres Piece lying next to Cloven Baulk N in a field called Bedford Hole Field formerly belonging to Cauldwell Priory in the occupation of Thomas Ballard of Elstow; (h) Rye Close “over against Cauldwell Walk” in Bedford, Saint Mary containing 13 acres, being half thereof lying E next to the town Witnesses: - John Becuda; - John Stokes;

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Hamerton, William,
Russell, John (4th Duke of Bedford),
Peirson, Thomas,
Boteler, Oliver,
Ballard, Thomas,
Becuda, John,
Stokes, John

Bedford fields, Saint Mary Bedford, merchant, Bedford Cauldwell Priory, Elstow Abbey, Bedford Saint John's Hospital, Bedford Saint Leonard's Hospital