Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    LS698
  • Title
    Marriage settlement (counterpart) i) William Thickpenny, senior, Blunham, yeoman, John Thickpenny, son and heir of said William; ii) Edward Osborne, Northill, Esquire, William Sutton, Northill, servant to said Edward, Elizabeth Sutton, one of the daughters of above William. Marriage is to shortly take place between John and Elizabeth. Consideration: £200 paid by William Sutton.
  • Date free text
    25 April 1653
  • Production date
    From: 1653 To: 1653
  • Scope and Content
    Covenant to levy fine of: - capital messuage or farmhouse of i) in Blunham where they now inhabit - close pasture adjoining as a pightle (1 acre) - 2 cottages in Blunham adjoining said capital messuage, part of it, which said 2 cottages have recently been erected out of said capital messuage, one cottage now in occupation of John Smyth of Blunham, labourer, and other of John Powers, Blunham, blacksmith, and used as a smith's forge (all above formerly in occupation of Robert Thorpe, Blunham, husbandman) - close pasture called the Homestall Close or Home Close 19 acres arable, ley or sward in common fields of Blunham: - In Blunham South Field (4 acres 3 roods arable): -- In Twenty Acre furlong: ½ acre, south William Joanes, north Thomas Wooton; ½ acre north Thomas Barnett; -- In Burtenall's Close furlong, rood abutting upon said furlong; -- In Lefte Land furlong, ½ acre south Owen Bromsall, north Thomas Favell; -- On Watercuppled furlong ½ acre, south Thomas Favell, north Timothy Kirby; -- On Cleavehill furlong, ½ acre, north Thomas Bromsall, south Owen Bromsall; ½ acre more, north Thomas Favell; ½ acre more, south Thomas Barnett, north Timothy Kirby; -- On Putt Noase Close furlong 1 acre going up alongside said close; - In other common field called Blunham Middle Field (6½ acres arable): -- In Dovehouse Hedge furlong ½ acre abutting on it, east Owen Bromsall, north Thomas Favell; -- In Northbrooke furlong ½ acre, south Thomas Bromsall, north Thomas Wooton; -- In Middle Clay furlong ½ acre, west Edward Hill, east Thomas Wooton; -- In Highway furlong ½ acre, west Thomas Favell, east Owen Bromsall; ½ acre more, both sides Owen Bromsall; -- On the Brooke furlong upon the Homeside or hithermore side of the town, 1 acre north John Tompson, south Thomas Barnett; ½ acre more, north John Tompson; -- On Brooke furlong upon the furthermost side of the said brook from the town, ½ acre, south Blunham Parsonage glebe land, north Thomas Loggesden; -- On Gaddmorehill furlong, 1 acre called a throughshott acre, north John Samuell, south other lands of William Thickpenny; -- On Parsonage close furlong, ½ acre, east Thomas Bromsall, west Timothy Kirby; -- On Calfes Ditch furlong, ½ acre, north George Farr, south Edward Hill - In one commonfield called Blunham Hamme Field (7 acres 3 roods arable); -- In Whizzleingeway furlong, ½ acre, west Thomas Loggesden, east Thomas Hill; -- In the Hamme furlong, 3 roods, east John Tompson, west lands of William Thickpenny; -- In West Mead furlong, 1 acre, east Tim Kirby, west Thomas Wooton; ½ acre more, east Robert Bromsall; 1 acre more, west Walter Capell, east Joane Coveington; -- In the Fearne furlong, ½ acre, north John Tompson, east Timothy Kirby; -- On the Mare furlong, ½ acre, west Owen Bromsall, east Edward Hill; ½ acre more abutting on headland of Edward Hill, east Robert Bromsall; -- On Langthorne furlong, ½ acre, west Thomas Loggesden; ½ acre more, east Thomas Wooton; -- On Brooke furlong, ½ acre, east and west William Ravens -- On Gault furlong, ½ acre, east Thomas Wooton, west Thomas Bromsall; -- On Wale furlong, 1 acre abutting on said Wale 4 acres of Ryver Meddowe of i) in meadows etc of said town in 2 common meads called East Mead and West Mead: - In East Mead, 1 acre, east Thomas .Bromsall, west common river; - In West Mead, 3 acres: 1 acre by itself, east Thomas Bromsall, west Thomas Flavell; 3 roods, both sides Owen Bromsall; 3 roods more, east Owen Bromsall, west Thomas Flavell; 3 roods, both sides Owen Bromsall; 3 roods more, east Owen Bromsall, west William Joanes; ½ acre more, west Earl of Kent, east Thomas Flavell. All above were purchased by one Robert Wooton, Blunham, yeoman, deceased, from Gyles Alleyne of Hattfield Peverell, Essex, gentleman, by bargain and sale of 16 Elizabeth [1574], and defended from the said Robert Wooton unto Lawrence Wooton, his son. One moiety of above being defended from said Lawrence unto Margery Wooton, deceased, one of his daughters, late wife of said William Thickpenny (and mother of John), by which William Thickpenny holds lands for term of his life, and then they are to go to John. The other moiety went to Elizabeth Wooton, another daughter of Lawrence, now wife of Henry Tingey, St Mary's in Ely, Cambridgeshire, maltster, and were purchased by i) from said Henry by Bargain and Sale and fine and deed of covenant dated 26 May 1640. 3½ acres arable, ley and sward in common fields of Tempsford and Everton: - 1 acre, once land of John Gale, sometimes Thomas Feasant and before that of Henry Osborne; - 1 rood in Tempsford Field in Gallows Furlong, east William Adams, gentleman, west Elizabeth Cooper, widow; - ½ acre more in same field in Middle Sands furlong, south Lord of Tempsford, north one of Colleges in Oxford, east common road or highway; - 1 other rood lying in Everton Downe feilde on the Downe furlong, south George Rensham, Esq, north Thomas Sexten (late Richard Hynson) - 2 ½ acres arable in common fields of Everton and Tempsford (residue of said 3½ acres): -- 1 acre in Tempsford Field called Stubb Cross furlong, south Stubb Cross baulk, north William Tingey; -- 1 other acre lying in Everton Down furlong, west Pease furlong haydon, south Thomas Staploe, north Edward Hills, gentleman; -- ½ acre more on that furlong upon Everton Downe called the Middle Furlong being one furlong distant from the New Meadow, both sides Lord of Tempsford. Which said 2½ acres were part of full 1/4 part of 40 acres arable, once the ancient lands of William Barckecocke, deceased, and by his will of 3 April 1616 given to Agnes Banes, Katherine Tingey, Helena wife of Edward Gibbes otherwise Frymme, and Elizabeth Hearne, the 4 sisters and heiresses of said William Barckecocke, all which said 3½ acres in Everton and Tempsford were lately purchased by said William Thickpenny of above mentioned Henry Tingey by deed of 8 Dec [1636], which said fine is to be levied to use of John Thickpenny for life, and then to Elizabeth Sutton, and then to their children. Edward Osborne and William Sutton, trustees; signatures of ii). Endorsed – 5 witnesses.
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