BS858-859

Purchase of an annuity of £50, £550: (i) Katherine Ashenhurst of London, widow (ii) John Perrey of London, esquire. The following rents are transferred to Katherine Ashenhurst (as security), to be reassigned by her the next day [see BS 859; full details given]. Witnesses: Matthew Petley, George Wheeler, Francis Goodenough

10,11 Mar 1690/91

From: 1588 To: 1691

Details given: -- a fee farm rent of £6 from two water mills called the tithe mills in Clifton and Southill, granted by Letters Patent 20 April 1611 to Felix Wilson and Robert Morgan; -- a fee farm rent of £6 from the rectory of Salford and other lands, granted by Letters Patent 18 March 1588 to Edward Downing and Miles Dodding; -- a fee farm rent of £11 from the rectory of Dunton, granted by Letters Patent 19 April 1606 to Roger Rogers and Laurence Baskervile; -- a fee farm rent of £3 from Easton Mills, Flitwick, granted by Letters Patent 19 May 1609 to Edward Ferrers and Francis Phillips; -- a fee farm rent of £3 from a water mill and 2 pightles of land of about 4 acres in Ampthill, granted by Letters Patent19 May 1609 to Edward Ferrers and Francis Phillips; -- an annual rent of eight shillings from the manor of Temple Hills in Sharnbrook, late paid by Sir Oliver Butler; -- a fee farm rent of £3 for free tenements in Kempston and other lands in Bedford, Fenlake, Harrowden, 'Cotton cum Haynes', Houghton Conquest; -- a fee farm rent of £8 for the rectory of Harlington, late paid by the Earl of Cleveland; -- an annual rent of forty shillings for the manor of Medbury, Elstow, late belonging to Sir Richard Lee, knight, late belonging to the monastery of Sapwell, Northamptonshire [or ?Pipewell or Sopwell nunnery in St Albans]; -- a fee farm rent of £5 from Tempsford chantry, late in the tenure of Stephen and Elizabeth Raynsham; -- a pension of forty shillings payable by the vicar of Kempston; -- an annual rent of forty shillings for tithes in St Pauls Bedford, late paid by [-] Crowley, clerk, late belonging to Newnham Priory; -- a fee farm rent of thirty nine shillings for tithes of Sudbury pastures 'in Colmworth in the parish of Eaton Socon', lately paid by Samuel Paine, late belonging to St Neots Priory; -- an annual rent of sixteen shillings from the rectory of Biddenham, lately paid by Sir Thomas Butler, knight, and late belonging to Caldwell Priory; -- a pension of twenty shillings from the rectory of Biddenham in right of Newnham Priory, late paid by Sir Thomas Butler, knight; -- a fee farm rent of £6 from the rectory of All Saints and St Pauls and a meadow called Trumpington Mead, late paid by Thomas Christy, gentleman, and John Barber; -- a fee farm rent of 71 shillings from the rectory of All Saints and St Pauls, late paid by Thomas Christy; All of which late belonged to Newnham Priory. -- a fee farm rent of 8 shillings from a close called Bernicles Close (Ampthill), late paid by Peter Martin; -- a fee farm rent of 13s 4d from a tenement in Church Street (Ampthill) and several lands adjoining Dame Ellingsbury's Park, late paid by Peter Martin; -- a fee farm rent of 13s 4d from a tenement and close in Bedford Street (Ampthill), late paid by Robert Bussey; -- a fee farm rent of £14 from the grange of Ampthill, late paid by George Walker; -- a fee farm rent of £8 from Flitwick Wood, late paid by George Walker; All of which late belonged to the Honour of Ampthill. -- a fee farm rent of £4 from the town of Bedford and other lands or premises payable by the Bailiff of the town, late belonging to Elstow Abbey; -- an annual rent or tenth of 20 shillings from the manor of Shortgrove (Studham), late paid by John Honor, late belonging to Dunstable Priory; -- an annual rent or tenth of 25 shillings from the manor of Ickwell, late belonging to the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, late paid by Robert Barnardiston; -- an annual rent or tenth of 23 shillings from the rectory of Biddenham, late paid by Thomas Butler, late belonging to 'the priory of Dorney [?Thorney]'; -- an annual rent or tenth of £2 from the manor of Rowney, late paid by John Speed and Peter Nodes, late belonging to Warden Abbey; -- an annual rent of £1 from the grange of 'Midlowe alias Medlow' in Bedfordshire, late paid by Sir Robert Paine, knight, and late belonging to the Honour of Ampthill.

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Ashenhurst, Katherine,
Perrey, John,
Petley, Matthew,
Wheeler, George,
Goodenough, Francis,
Wilson, Felix,
Morgan, Robert,
Downing, Edward,
Dodding, Miles,
Rogers, Roger,
Baskervile, Laurence,
Ferrers, Edward,
Phillips, Francis,
Butler, Oliver,
Earl of Cleveland,
Wentworth,
Lee, Richard,
Raynsham, Stephen,
Raynsham, Elizabeth,
Crowley,
Paine, Samuel,
Butler, Thomas,
Christy, Thomas,
Barber, John,
Martin, Peter,
Ellingsbury,
Bussey, Robert,
Walker, George,
Honor, John,
Barnardiston, Robert,
Speed, John,
Nodes, Peter,
Paine, Robert

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