Reference
KK589
Title
Conveyance (Lease & Release)
Date free text
17, 18 Jan 1734/35
Production date
From: 1734 To: 1735
Scope and Content
(i) James Tarsey of Leighton Buzzard clerk and wife Esther (widow of Thomas Theed).
(ii) Thomas Sheppard of Lydcot (Buckinghamshire) gentleman.
- Manor of Bragenham : Capital Messuage, orchards, and gardens, Dovehouse close, Perrotts piece, home closes (as in KK585, KK586), also:- Nine Acre Piece (9 acres); Bragnam mead (9 acres) 18 leys (6½ acres); Great Oat Leys (11 acres); Little Meadow (1 acre); Chapell Baulk (7 acres); the Sands alias Wrights Close (8 acres); Lane’s close (2½ acres); 9 other closes adjoining (20 acres). All in occupation of Thomas Cowley.
- Farmhouse and close (2 acres) in Bragenham; Home close (2½ acres); Burdens Hole (3 acres); Great Myers (4½ acres);New Piece (9acres); Pond close (2½ acres); Lower Burge Meadow (5 acres 1 rood); Little Sands (4½ acres); the Pightle (1½ acres); Little Oat Leys (4 acres); Long Meadow (2 acres); Garlands Hook alias Garners Hook (2 acres), All in occupation of Joseph Cooke.
- Spinney (3 acres) in Bragenham, late in occupation of Thomas Theed, now Esther Tarsey; New Piece North and East, Lower Bridge meadow West.
- 3 closes in occupation of Thomas Day in same – Short Sands (4 acres) the moor (2½ acres), Long close (2acres).
- Windmill in Bragenham in occupation of widow Backhouse.
- Forehills close in Soulbury (10 acres), late in occupation of Thomas Theed, now Esther Tarsey.
- Cottage and platt of furze ground (3 acres) on Bragenham common, in occupation of William Major.
- 4 cottages on Bragenham common at Rammy mare, in occupation of William Rogers, Henry Scrivener, widow Hudson, widow Coles, widow Kendall, held by overseers of poor of Soulbury.
- 2½ acres furze ground in Great Brickhill, in occupation of William Harris.
Witnesses : Bernard Turney, Henry Howard.
5 applied seals (conventional)
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