BC98

Probate of Will of John Knowlton of Leighton Buzzard, surgeon and apothecary.

26 Nov 1735, probate 2 Jul 1737

From: 1735 To: 1737

Ratifies Deed, 1732 (recital (A) in 99), To wife Mary, a messuage in Mars alias March End, a close adjoining containing 6½ acres, & 1 acre in West Mead, all in Lidlington. To wife 2½ acres in Cheddington (county of Buckinghamshire). Recites Final Concord, 1735, between (i) John Knight, late of Brogborough, now of Ridgmont, grazier, and testator & wife Mary, and (ii) John Shotbolt of Leighton Buzzard, tanner, as to a messuage, a close adjoining containing 3 acres, 2 closes of lammas called Well Close (8 acres) & Short Dole (2 acres), 2 acres of lammas in Long Doles, ½ acre lammas in Great Norwood, 2 parts of a dole of meadow in Norwood Moor (½ acre) a close or piece of field ground called Parks Leys (4 acres), 3 acres of ley in Fen Mead, & 72 acres arable, meadow & pasture (no details) in Common Fields all in Segenhoe-with-Ridgmont; 3 roods in the Red Field of Husborne Crawley; all late in the occupation of James Gregory, now of John Knight; also ½ acre lammas in Little Muck Mead in Segenhoe-with-Ridgmont; to use of John Knight for life, then to testator & wife; testator now devises same to children, John Knight Knowlton, Thomas Knowlton & Mary Knowlton, when 21. To mother Ann Knowlton, £10. To trustees, his stock-in-trade, etc., in trust. Witnesses: Benjamin Coare, Matthew Parsons, Charles Pyne.

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Bedford Corporation,
Knowlton, John,
Knowlton, Mary,
Knight, John,
Knight, Mary,
Shotbolt, John,
Gregory, James,
Knowlton, John Knight,
Knight Knowlton, John,
Knowlton, Thomas,
Knowlton, Ann

Bedford Corporation, DEEDS, PROBATE, wills, John will: Knowlton, surgeon, apothecary, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, buildings and land use, HOUSING, Lidlington March End, Lidlington fields, Cheddington, BROGBOROUGH, RIDGMONT, grazier, tanner, Ridgmont fields, Segenhoe, Ridgmont farms, HUSBORNE CRAWLEY, Husborne Crawley fields