BS535

Lease for 21 years, rent £160 per annum: (i) Reverend Leonard Towne of Bottesford, Leicestershire, clerk (ii) Joseph Gill of St John's College, Cambridge, esquire. A messuage in Colmworth with Home Close, 3 acres; enclosed land and in the common fields of Colmworth, Eaton Socon and Wilden [details given]. Witnesses: Joshua Baldwin, James Nottingham

28 Apr 1797

From: 1797 To: 1797

Details given: Enclosed land: -- Round pightle, 3 roods; -- Bundys close, 1 acre; -- Long pightle, 2 roods; -- Jennys close, 9 acres; -- the Severals, 1 acre; -- the Little Busher Close, 3 acres; -- the Meadow, 2 acres; -- the Busher close, 11 acres; -- Blackland pightle, 2 roods; -- Burnoe Wood close, 20 acres; -- Foxhole and Trefoil close, 13 acres; -- Warren close, 11 acres; -- Warren meadows, 10 acres; -- Fourteen-Acre wood, 12 acres; -- Sixteen-Acre wood containing 18 acres; -- Further Twelve-Acre wood, 12 acres; -- Eighteen-Acre wood, 16 acres; -- Hither Twelve-Acre wood, 13 acres; -- Five-Acre wood, 4 acres; -- Cottage close, 3 acres; -- the Riding in the Wood, 2 acres; Land in the common fields: -- in Lane Hedge field, 37 acres; -- in Long Croft, 1 acre; -- in Digit field, 1 acre; -- in Blackland field, 12 acres; -- in Pacer field, 2 acres; -- in Mill Field, 2 acres; -- in Little Field, 1 acre; -- in Great Stocking Field, 1 acre; -- in West field, 1 acre; -- in Long field, 2 acres; -- in Capley field, 3 acres; -- in Hayness field, 3 acres; -- in Small Brook field, 1 acre; -- in Eastcroft Brook field, 14 acres; -- in Burned field, 17 acres; -- in Mill field, 14 acres; late in the occupation of John Gray and James Gray.

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Towne, Leonard,
Gill, Joseph,
Baldwin, Joshua,
Nottingham, James,
Gray, John,
Gray, James

agricultural leases, clerk, Cambridge St John's College, field names, Colmworth fields, Eaton Socon fields, Wilden fields, Bottesford, COLMWORTH, EATON SOCON, WILDEN