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Sir Thomas Leigh, knight, to Edmund Ashwell, junior, yeoman, both of Leighton Buzzard. 11½ acres in the Fields of Leighton Buzzard. Place-names: Groveburye Field, Axtills Headland, Racklye Hill, Wenlock Stille, Gravill Pitts, Gravill Pitts Lane, Clariboles, Little Clay Furlong, Duncumbes Headland, Brookes' Headland; Middle Field, Mans Hedge, the Heale, Horner Hunts' Bushe, Hunts Way, the parsonage land, Lecke Brooke Furlong, Everye Yeares land, Capps Pill, Shenlye Hill Field, Shenlye Hill, Middle Woe Furlong, Rowditch, Hewards Baulk, Wintons Foreshooter, Lamsey, the common baulk, Wards Stone Close. Bounding owners: Mr. Corbett, Edmund Walter, John Wilckes, Mr. Poole, heirs of William Man, Edmund Copping, Sir Thomas Leigh, Daniel Gorbell (occupier), Mr. Duncumbe, James Topping; Ralph Jeffes, Lawrence Hogg, heirs of Croseman, Richard Cowly, & George Keyser. To hold free of interruption by the said Sir Thomas, the Lady Mary Leigh (his wife), heirs of Sir Christopher Hoddesdon of Leighton, knight. Elizabeth Lady Hoddesdon (widow of Sir Chris), heir of Robert Oviatt alias Blackett, or Elizabeth Anderowes (widow of Edmund Carvill,) Witnesses: George Foster, George Keyser, Richard Cowly, Francis Jenkins, Thomas Harbard junior & Edward Bolsworth junior.