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Henry Wagstaff, gentleman & wife Alice, Ann Cranfield, spinster (which two last are only surviving daughters & devisees of Jonathan Cranfield, gentleman; & Alice Cranfield, widow; all of Harrowden, Cardington, to Sarah Cooper of Eynesbury, widow. Several pieces of land in the Fields & Meadows of Great Barford. Place-names: Mill Field, Bozeley Hedge, Bedford Road, Shefford Way, Horn Hedge Furlong, Orchard Leys, Orchard Close, Horn Hedge, Geoffrey Baulk, Short Moore, the New Closes, Sharford Furlong, Long Grindick, Grindick Baulk, Langley Field, Churchill, Stocking Hedges, Picket Willow, Townend Leys, a Town House; Little Field, Ace Hill Brook, Ridge Furlong, Wilden Mere; Elstow Furlong, Hither North Field, Great Meadow, the river, (one kendall of meadow containing 21 feet at Lands End, & 42 feet at the River End), the Tythe Rood. Bounding owners: the Reverend Mr. Mander, Mary Favell, John Pedley, Randall Taylor, Thomas Dickinson, Henry Waite, esquire, William Metcalfe, esquire, late John Newall, Thomas Livett, George Favell, clerk; Thomas Aspinall, Sarah Crowther, widow, Mr. Spiny, said Sarah Cooper, John Franklin, esquire, Mrs. Hancock, Mr. Brace, Francis Willis, William Riseley. All property in the occupation of John Mills. (Recites Lease & Release, 1749: (1) Jonathan Cranfield & wife Sarah; (II) John Newold alias Newill & wife Ann; (III) Elizabeth Hancock, spinster; (IV) Sarah Crowther, widow; & (V) John Bundy, yeoman, & William Wingfield, victualler). Witnesses: J. Waller (notary public) & John Park.
A label was tied round BC122 endorsed: "James Whitehouse purchase of Thomas Barrett & others"