Reference
BS907
Title
Conveyance (?Lease for a year; Release missing): (i) Reverend Henry Plumtre of Claypole, Lincolnshire; Sir George Robinson of Cranford, Northamptonshire, and wife Dorothy; George Robinson of Cranford, esquire, their eldest son; Charles Hoare of London, esquire, and wife Frances Dorothy (née Robinson); Reverend W V Robinson of Northamptonshire; R W Blencowe of Northamptonshire, esquire, and wife Penelope (née Robinson) (ii) Joseph Robinson of Bletsoe, farmer and grazier. Property in Wootton, Kempston and North Crawley [details given].
Date free text
7 Oct 1808
Production date
From: 1770 To: 1808
Admin/biog history
BRA Stamp 641 from Messrs Frere Cholmeley & Co, 28 Lincolns Inn Fields
Scope and Content
Details given:
-- A farmhouse in Wootton, with dovehouse etc; 2 Home closes (7 and 3 acres); Three Acre close; Seven Acre close; Nearmost, Middle and Far Crowland closes (23 acres); Stockings close (11 acres); Coppice close (17 acres); Chapel Field (32 acres); Gravelpit close (1 acre); Far Gravelpit close (2 acres); Sheep close (7 acres); Wood close (2 acres); Pasture field (31 acres); Green close pightle (12 acres);
heretofore occupied by [-] Abbott, late Benjamin Bull, now Joseph Robinson.
-- Another farmhouse in Wootton; Home close (6 acres); Cinquefoil close (6 acres); Three Acre close (4 acres); Nine Acre meadow (10 acres); Hewson's meadow (7 acres); Hill close (5 acres); Cannons Hill close (9 acres); Hard close (11 acres); North Ten Acres (11 acres); South Ten Acres (11 acres); Clover close (10 acres); West Ten Acres (10 acres); Forefield and pightle (9 acres); Wood pightle (11 acres); Green close (25 acres);
heretofore in the occupation of William Lineham, then Benjamin Bull, now Joseph Robinson.
-- Bone End wood (26 acres); Chapel spinney (1 acre); Gravel close spinney (1 acre); Coppice close spinney (6 acres); Spring pightle spinney (1 rood);
in hand.
-- Closes in Kempston: Coppice close meadow (8 acres); Plowed pasture (21 acres); Nether pasture (21 acres); Red Barn close (7 acres); Red barn plowed close (6 acres); Spring pightle (4 acres); Apple tree close (13 acres);
heretofore occupied by [-] Abbott, then John Lineham, now Joseph Robinson.
-- A cottage in Bone End, Kempston; closes heretofore called Cock Richards pasture (70 acres); Cock Richards grove (9 acres); Long meadow (8 acres); Home meadow (7 acres); now called Home meadow, Sheep Walk, Home Twelve Acres, Home Six Acres, Hovel close, Grove close, Twelve Acres, and Long Meadow;
late in the occupation of John Bigg, afterwards Abraham Bigg, since William Smith, afterwards [-] Fowkes, late John Lineham, now Joseph Robinson.
And were late the estate of Sir Francis Chester, deceased, inherited from father Sir John Chester.
-- Closes in North Crawley, Buckinghamshire, called Five Acres, Nine Acres and Over pasture;
heretofore [-] Abbott, then John Lineham, now Joseph Robinson.
And were late the estate of Sir Francis Chester deceased, inherited from father Sir John Chester.
-- Buckinghamshire close (6 acres);
heretofore William Smith, then [–] Fowkes, then John Lineham, now Joseph Robinson.
-- The manor or reputed manor of Wootton Bone End, with rents of 14s 4d from two cottages called Ford and Bassett;
-- The great tithes from the messuages and lands herein mentioned; subject as to Kempston and North Crawley to ancient moduses only in lieu of small tithes.
All or part thereof being subject to a yearly quit rent to William Farrer, Grove Spurgeon Farrer, esquire, and two quit rents of 5s 3d each to John Cater and [-] Dennis.
As conveyed 13,14 July 1770: (i) Sir George and Dorothy Robinson and others (ii) Polydore Plumtre and Henry Hatsell.
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