Reference
FAC148/1
Title
Extracts from estate notebook and rental for "Beds"
Date free text
1717 - 1902
Production date
From: 1717 To: 1902
Scope and Content
Containing:
1. Descriptions of properties in Wilshamstead and Wootton to which Richard Lowndes succeeded on the death without issue of his brother William Lowndes on 25 February 1828-1. Farm in Wootton (55a) in the tenure of Edward Biggs as yearly tenant (rent £65 per annum) and 2. Farm in Wilshamstead (114a) in tenure of John Newman as yearly tenant (rent £133 per annum) (p.1)
2. Information on the Wootton-purchased by Thomas Layton in 1719; description of property from purchase deeds of 23/24 March 1719 (pp.2-3); note on discharge of tithes under Inclosure Award 1836 (p.27) with (overleaf) extract from schedule listing properties freed from tithes.
3. Information on the Wilshamstead farm-purchased by Thomas Layton in 1717; description of property from deeds of 7/8 July 1717 (pp.4-18); extracts from terriers and surveys of 1717 (p.19) and 1732 (p.20); details of property from inclosure award (plot numbers, field names, acreages etc) 1809-11 (p.21); note on acquisition of tithe closes (21a) by Richard Lowndes from the Trustees of Mr Crooke, 1845 (p.22); recital of will of Thomas Layton, 1723, and descent of property through the Lowndes family, with notes on the history of the family and estate (pp.23-25); Agreement for lease of Wilshamstead farm (135a) to Thomas Newman (yearly rental £210) from Michaelmas 1856, and new lease to Thomas and Benjamin Newman 1881 (p.26)
4. Rent account (pp.1-2, 9-16 etc.). for the Wilshamstead estate 1828-1902
Rents only in earlier period. Income and expenditure (repairs to buildings, drainage, water supply etc.) from 1848.
John Newman tenant of Old Farm 1828-1849; Richard James for part of Crookes Farm 1845-9; John Newman "has a partner James" tenants of Old Farm and Tithe Closes 1848-50; Thomas James 1850-1857; Thomas Newman tenant of Old Farm 1856-1877; Thomas and James Newman 1878-1881; Thomas and B(enjamin) Newman 1881-1885; B. Newman 1885-1897; James and Joseph Newman 1898-1902
Purchase of farms from Mr. Crooke in 1846 - tenant John Armstrong (rent £230 subject to land tax and a share of the expence attending the repair of the chancel - Lowndes "agreed with the tenant for one year at the old Rent Sir Robt Peel having thrown all the Kingdom into Confusion by the Measures he brought forward respecting the Corn Laws so that Landlords & Tenants are equally at a Loss to fix rents"; John Armstrong 1846-9-"for the rental of this farm see Book marked Somerset"
5. Rent account (pp.3-8; etc) for the Wootton estate 1828-1902
Rents only in earlier period. Income and expenditure (repairs to buildings, drainage, water supply etc.) from 1848.
Edward Biggs, tenant 1828-1848 (died 23 Jan); tenancy continued by his widow at the old rent 1848-9; Mrs. Biggs joined in the tenancy by her son-in-law John Burr 1849-1901; Joseph Keech 1901-1902
Format
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Level of description
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