• Reference
    PM236-237
  • Title
    Conveyance (lease and release): £2,342 (£288 to Francis Merriweather, £850 to William Darling, £327 to Elizabeth Hale, £876 to Baron Britain) i)Baron Britain senior of Sandy, gentleman; eldest son John Britain of Sandy, gentleman; Thomas Hankyn of Potton, plumber and glazier; William Hale of Everton, gentleman, son and heir of Jane Hale; ii)Heylock Kingsley of Furzen Hall, Biggleswade, esquire
  • Date free text
    28,29 Sep 1721
  • Production date
    From: 1721 To: 1721
  • Scope and Content
    ...the manor or lordship of Haleles alias Hasells; the messuage or manor house in Haleless alias Hasels heretofore in occupation John Dash, now Baron Britain junior; Hasels pastures in Sandy and Girtford (4 closes near manorhouse, 6 acres, 6 aces, 10 acres, 8 acres; Lower Wood close, 9 acres; pightle 1 acre; 2 closes, 8 and 9 acres; 5 closes called Wood closes, pasture 20 acres; close of 10 acres; Upper Wood, 6 acres; Cow pasture, 7 acres; pasture behind barn 2 acres; close “near a cottage hereinafter-mentioned”, 1½ acres; Broom closes, 4 acres; New Close, 10 acres, in Low Field; Hanging Croft Wood, 2 acres; 3 cottages lately built by Baron Britain, in occupation William Robinson and William Fisher and Robert Redhead; and 1 acre called Fenlay; arable lands in the open fields:- in Hither Kynwicke Field 15½ acres (abutting S. on the Heath, N. on Dovehouse close, E. on Further Kynwicke Field, E. on Rutlands Quarry, S. on Paternors Hole); in Further kynwicke Field 22½ acres ( Mill Piece; abutting SW. on Hither Kynwicke Field, N. and S. on Cambridge highway, NE. on Eldern Stump furzens; N. on Langley spinney; N. on Wood closes; S. on Heath); in Low Field 6 acres: (on Hasel hedge, Flaw bush, Flaxleys and Narlong furlongs; abutting N. on the joint way to Thimble close, NE. on the road between Sandy and Everton Field, SW. on Flaxleys); Hanging Croft close, 2 acres, abutting E. on Kynwicke Field; Lands (7 acres in Kynwicke Field, abutting S. on warren, W. on Horne’s baulk) purchased 21, 22 March 1705/6 from Samuel Smith of London, bookseller and wife Penelope; John Crawley, Dunstable doctor of physic and wife Anne; Elizabeth Symcotts; Penelope, Anne and Elizabeth being daughters and coheirs of William Symcotts of Clifton, gentleman; Lands (2 acres in Kynwicke Field and 7 “rood ends”, 1 rood, and “7 rood ends of furzens”) purchased 23, 24 March 1709/10 from Henry Fage of Sandy, labourer and wife Mary; Lands (4 acres in Kinwicke Field, in Oldhill furlong, abutting E. on Cambridge highway, N. on Horne’s balk), purchased 23, 24 March 1709/10 from Thomas Brinkly and Henry Fage; owners and occupiers adjoining: John Webb, Mr Forrester, Robert Redhead, William Fisher, Sir Humphrey Monoux, John Bishop, William Underwood, William Astell esquire, Robert Whitfield, John Richardson, late Lady Spencer, late Jonathan Hooker; Witnesses: Edward Rolt junior Potton, Nathaniel Atterton “at the Inn in Potton, Edward Sparhawke
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