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Articles of Agreement: (i) Thomas Inskip, Stanford, Bedfordshire for Earl of Bolingbroke; (ii) Thomas FitzRichards of Southill, carpenter.

11 October 1692

From: 1692 To: 1692

(ii) to take down house in his Lordship’s yard at Warden called the Lime House, and also another house of two rooms at Warden called Cumberlands, and to set them up together in another place “to make a messuage house of them”. The Lime House to be setup the same length and width as now, and partitions as (i) shall order; the house called Cumberlands the first room the same length as now, the other within a foot of present length, and the widths the same. “Sparrs, studds, grunsells, plates, braces and boards wanting” to be cut out of Bolingbroke’s timber. To make windows, stairs, doors, and “window shutts where need is”, and to rasp the studds. The boards now in the parlour in Cumberlands house are to board the room to be over the cellar. All carpenters work to be done by 14 February next, except laying floors, and stairs and doors, to be done by 25 March. Consideration £20. (i) has agreed for (ii) to set up a granary of new timber, 16 feet square “and five feet and a half upon the studd between Joynts with Bings in it” by 24 June next. To do paling in yard. Witnesses: William Hughes, John Flint.

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Inskip, Thomas,
Bolingbroke,
Fitzrichards, Thomas,
Hughes, William,
Flint, John

Stanford, SOUTHILL, Old Warden, private buildings & land, carpentry, timber