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Nicholas Carew of Bedington (county of Surrey), esquire, to Robert Chester of Cocken Hatch in the parish of Berkway (county of Hertfordshire), esquire; A farm house called Crackneshill; closes called Conygree Close (17 acres), Townsend Close (4 acres), Townsend Pightle (½ acre), Preist Close (7 acres), Cross Lane Pightle (½ acre), a pightle adjoining the orchard (½ acre); parcels of meadow containing: 10¾ acres; & parcels of arable containing: 150 acres; all in the occupation of Henry Low. Nunns Wood containing: 100 acres formerly in the occupation of William Boteler. A farmhouse; closes called Wood Close & Moorhams (together 24 acres); 208 acres arable, leys & meadow; & the tithes of corn, grain & hay, with the great tithes, in the occupation formerly of Edward Musgrave now of Edward Quincey, all in Harrold. Two messuages in Wood End in Odell in the occupation of John Symon & Widow Earle; closes called Allisoe Mead (13 acres), Alisoe Bushy Ground (29 acres), Wagstaffs Pasture (46 acres), Lowsey Acre (18 acres), Lowsey Acre Mead (11 acres), Great Mead (8 acres), Ash Grove Pightle (2 acres), Middle Corner Close (3½ acres), Upper Black Holmes (6 acres), Neather Black Holmes (7 acres), Nether Ground (44 acres), Nightingale Mead (5 acres), 1 acre of land called Kent Acre; all in Wood End in Odell in the occupation of John Symon & Widow Earle. Woods called Brownage Wood (9¾ acres) Lowsey Acre Coppice (¼ acre), Lowsey Wood (5 acres), Park Ground Spinney (2 acres), Ash Grove (2¼ acres), Round Coppice (1 acre), Parsonage Corner Coppice (3¾ acres), Moat Coppice (4¾ acres), Fox Holes Spring (2 acres), Nightingales Spinney (1 rood), Round Coppice (1½ acres), Long Coppice (3¼ acres), Back Holmes Long Wood (5½ acres), & Barrett Wood (7¾ acres), all in Harrold, Odell, & Wood End, late the estate of William Boteler of Biddenham, esquire, deceased. (Bounds not given). Witnesses: William Farrer, F. Brace, & Joseph Buxton.