• Reference
    BS773
  • Title
    Release of claim against estate of Albion Throckmorton: (i) John Freshfield of Godmanchester and wife Mary, widow and executrix of Henry Hawkins of Godmanchester, apothecary (ii) John Wells of Bolnhurst, yeoman (iii) George Rice of Carmarthen, esquire, executor of Elizabeth Rice late of Chelsea, widow (iv) George Vaughan of Middlesex, laceman (v) Grace Throckmorton of Middlesex, widow, executrix of Albion Throckmorton (vi) Susanna Hushe of Hemingford Abbotts, widow; John Perkins of Huntingdon, mercer, and wife Mary; Samuel Walker of Essex, woollen draper, and wife Elizabeth, late Elizabeth Throckmorton (Susan, Mary and Elizabeth being sisters and heirs of Albion Throckmorton) (vii) Thomas Brooke of London, gentleman (viii) James Brooke of Dorset, gentleman. Copyhold lands and tenements at Biggleswade [details given]. Witnesses: William Welles of Bolnhurst, John Park, clerk to Mr Waller of St Neots, Isaac Mallison, Richard Rudd (also signatures of London lawyers)
  • Date free text
    28 May 1757
  • Production date
    From: 1757 To: 1757
  • Admin/biog history
    BRA Stamp 500 Farrer & Co
  • Scope and Content
    Details given: -- meadow in Hitch mead and Long mead, the latter abuts east on the common or on the Low way, and west on River Ivel (Puttocks hill, Colegrain piece, Manslide and Horscroft); -- arable spot names: Great Gillets, Little Gillets, Grand Piece, Cowfair land, Cracus piece, Great and Little Stoney land; Sun furlong piece, Sunderland path piece, Reeves Stick furlong, Mariner's way, Woland and Fleming's piece; -- cottages in the occupation of William Spicer, Elizabeth Foster, Roger Layton, Samuel Holden, John Newman, Henry Fage, Thomas Christmass, Richard Sale, Mary Ivory, William Rance, James Bean. Owners or tenants of lands: John Winn, John Miles, Edward Rudd, Mr Smith, Mr Race, George Fletcher.
  • Level of description
    item