Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    BS5
  • Title
    Lease for a year [release missing]: Right Honourable Thomas, Lord Viscount Sydney and Charles Townshend of the Exchequer, esquire (surviving executors of Edward Barnard, Doctor of Divinity, and late Provost of Eton, Buckinghamshire), to William Mainwaring. The Rectory of Stretley alias Seretly; with glebe lands, tithes etc; of which William Goldsmith and his trustee Samuel Chase formerly were seised. Also other property [details given]. Witnesses: [all London people]
  • Date free text
    9 Nov 1789
  • Production date
    From: 1789 To: 1789
  • Scope and Content
    Details of other property: - Stretley Close (1 acre), formerly in the occupation of William Nightingale and now of George Atterbery, formerly purchased by Hugh Smith from Richard Norton; - a cottage, with land formerly of John Nodes, esquire, on west and north, and the common green east and south; - a cottage formerly in the occupation of William Squire and now of John Holdstock, with a close adjoining (1 acre), fronting in part on the highway from Streatley to Sharpenhoe, and lying between lands formerly of John Hanscombe, and those now of William Goldsmith, and a common field or way from Streatley to Sundon; - a messuage in which John Allen, John Welch and John Worsley, and then the said John Worsley and John Bowen formerly dwelt; and 200 acres land in Streatley [no details]; which said messuage and land were formerly copyhold estate of the Reverend James Smyth; and were conveyed by Bargain and Sale enrolled, dated 25 March 1775: Elizabeth Goldsmith of Luton, widow (only child and heiress of John Nodes, esquire), and said William Goldsmith (son and heir apparent), to said Reverend James Smyth; by which all rents, heriots etc were extinguished, except a quitrent of 3s 4d; which itself was extinguished on purchase by the said William Goldsmith.
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