Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    BS480
  • Title
    Release of rights in return for rent-charge of £16 per annum: (i) Dorothy Fortune of Eynesbury, Huntingdonshire, widow of William Fortune late of Eaton Socon; William Pye of Eynesbury, yeoman, late of Cambridgeshire, innholder (ii) Richard Fisher of Colmworth, yeoman, and wife Faith, only daughter of William Fortune. Several properties in Colmworth, with recitation of other documents [details given]. Witnesses: Mary Bristow, Simon Stafford, Thomas Berkeley
  • Date free text
    23 Feb 1711/12
  • Production date
    From: 1711 To: 1712
  • Admin/biog history
    BRA Stamp 414 from Messrs Hedley Norris & Co
  • Scope and Content
    Details given: -- a moiety of a messuage in Church End, Colmworth, a moiety of another tenement of the said Richard Fisher west, the Queen's highway south; -- a moiety of Short Croft (5 acres); -- a moiety of Long Croft, with the lane lying by the same, in Church End, adjoining the land of Abraham King east and late of Thomas Hillersdon, esquire, west, containing 5 acres; -- a moiety of Sheep Brooke close (9 acres), adjoining land of Abraham King east, and late of Richard Sexton west; -- a moiety of Stockings close (4 acres) with boundaries east and west as before, abutting north on the land of Charles Geary esquire. Recites: (A) Marriage settlement dated 4 February 1702: (i) William Fortune on marriage with Dorothy (ii) William Pye. (B) Will of William Fortune [see ABP/W1711/78]: devises to wife Dorothy £80 due to him by brother-in-law John Swanson's hand. (C) Death of William Fortune, leaving one daughter, Faith, by former wife but no children by Dorothy. Dorothy is to receive annuity of £16 per annum in discharge of her rights under (A).
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