Reference
R6/14/3/31
Title
Release - sale of cottages in Cople by John Nichols and Anne Nichols to Robert Butcher
Date free text
14 January 1752
Production date
From: 1752 To: 1752
Scope and Content
Parties
(i) John Nichols of Maulden, husbandman, only son and heir of Margaret Nichols, deceased, one of the two sisters and co-heirs of Thomas Copperwheat of Cople, weaver, deceased, and also the only brother and heir of Mary Fossey, deceased, late wife of Michael Fossey of Little Woolstone (Bucks), labourer, Mary Fossey being a devisee named in the will of Thomas Copperwheat; and Anne Nichols of Great Woolstone (Bucks), spinster
(ii) Robert Butcher of St George, Bloomsbury (Middlesex), esquire
Reciting
- R6/14/3/30
- R6/14/3/23, will of Thomas Copperwheat
Operative part
- (ii) pays £90 to (i)
- (i) releases (a) and (b) to (ii)
Property
(a) Cottage or tenement in Cople formerly occupied by Thomas Sperry, then Thomas Copperwheat, and now John Woolley, with 2 closes of pasture ground containing 3 acres abutting: N ground formerly of Matthew Watts and now of […] Cressey of Shefford; S tenement formerly of John Mennard; E Cople Street; W furlong abutting into Cardington highway – with commons for two beasts in the common fields of Cople;
(b) Cottage or tenement with one rood of ground formerly occupied by Thomas Battison and now by John Prentice, abutting: W the street side in Cople; N tenements formerly of William Arden and Matthew Watts – with one cow common in the common fields of Cople.
Habendum
- to the use of (ii) and his heirs for ever
Covenant:
- John Nichols and his wife Elizabeth to levy a fine sur cognizance de droit come ceo in favour of (ii) relinquishing any claim to dower in the property
Witnesses
- Henry Horton
- Griffith Morgan
Reference
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