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(i) Ambrose Reddall of Eversholt, gentleman, Vincent Rice, rector of Freehorne (county of Gloucestershire), John Littlejohn of Holcote, clerk, & Nathaniel Poole of Stonehouse (county of Gloucestershire), gentleman, (trustees of Will of Samuel Fowler of Standish (county of Gloucestershire); (ii) Katherine Dodsworth of Westminster (widow of Ezra Dodsworth, gentleman); (iii) Simon Taylor junior of Woburn & wife Diana (late Gregory); (iv) Sarah Gregory of St. Albans (county of Hertfordshire), widow; & (v) Elizabeth Sawyer, spinster (daughter of John Sawyer of Charterhouse Yard, St. Sepulchre, London, gentleman deceased) ("Conveyance from Mr. Fowler's trustees to Mrs. Elizabeth Sawyer"). -- A messuage in Wroxhill in parish of Marston Mortaine, late in the occupation of Richard Birt & now of John steffe; Ley close containing 10 acres, Fish pond close (5 acres) Hill Close (5 acres) Gate Close (1 acre) Home Pightle (1 acre) the "hanging of the Hill" (7 acres) Little Bottom (2 acres) Middle Bottom (4 acres) Great Bottom (5 acres) Coldhams (7½ acres), Great Hill Close (6 acres), Stokes Pightell (1 acre); & 2 acres in Windmill Field (no details): Recites: (A) Mortgage for £60, 1703, by Michael Woodward of Marston to Peter Edwards of Cranfield, both yeomen, of Great Hill Close in Wroxhill (6 acres) & Coldhams; (B) Assignment, 1706 to Elizabeth Goreham, widow, & Conveyance by Michael Woodward to her. Also recites (C) Mortgage for £150, 1690, by Michael Woodward to Jos. Crocker & Francis Wells, of a messuage in the occupation of Robert Crawley, & several Closes (formerly one close called Windmill Hill) containing 40 acres, all in Wroxhill; (D) Assignment, no date, to George Wells, gentleman, Also recites (E) Sale, 1707 to Robert Squire, of all the above (inter alia); (F) Mortgage for £400, by Robert Squire to said Sarah Gregory; (G) Sale, 1709, by Robert Squire to said Samuel Fowler; in each case, of said property; (H) Will, 1722, of Samuel Fowler, devising to (parties in (i) above) all his property in Millbrook & Marston (no details) in trust to sell it; (I) that interest in (B) now vests in said Katherine Dodsworth, & in (D) in Simon Taylor in right of his wife). Witnesses: Charles Parkyns, Elizabeth Narwood, Elizabeth Gray, Thomas Hall; E. Humble, Elizabeth Richardson; William Clutterbucke of Frampton (county of Gloucestershire) & John Keylock junior (his servant); Dixie Gregory, Thomas Reddall.