BC479

A volume of miscellaneous accounts, notes, etc.

1604 - 1694

From: 1604 To: 1694

Contents:- Rents for lands, etc. in Kempston, Wootton & 'Croly' [?North Crawley, county of Buckinghamshire] [¼ page] 1635. Rents [?from Chicheley, county of Buckinghamshire] [1 page] c.1635. Terrier of pasture-grounds of Sir Anthony Chester in Chicheley [3½pp.] 1616. Rents [as in first entry]. [1p.] 1628. Terrier of Kempston Bourn pasture & closes purchased from Lord John Mordaunt. [Field-names & acreages]. [1p.] 1627/8. Various payments [Chicheley]. [½p.] 1625,1633. Rents paid out of Kempston Bourn annually. [Persons & amounts] [½ p.] c. 1625. Rents paid out of Chicheley. [½p.] c.1625. Names of persons from whom Chester purchased lands in Chicheley, from 1592. [2pp.] 1616,1619. "To my Father, William Chester esquier -- For his estate in Drayghton [county of Buckinghamshire] & in Lumberstreete [Lombard Street, London]." [½p.] 1622. Notes of sales of lands, etc. in Tillsworth, Stanbridge, Shillington Bury & Mill, Kempston Bourn, East Haddon (county of Northamptonshire), Broughton (county of Staffordshire), & Lidlington Park, [2pp.] 1623-32. Note. -- Among the Tillsworth items is this entry: "For a Pardon for conversion of tyllage to pasture, 100 li."]. Notes of leases of various small properties [in Buckinghamshire]. [12pp.] 1618, with alterations for 1627. Do., Kempston Bourn [½p.] Do., Lidlington Park [¼p.] 1629-31. "The mesur of circomference of the Parke" [½p.] Rents from impropriate tithes in East Haddon. [3½pp.] 1692-98. [18 pp. blank] Receipts (mainly rents) & disbursements, relating chiefly to Kempston Bourn). [Many field-names & personal names]. [6pp.] 1692-97. [The remainder is at the reverse end] Notes of rents, Kempston, Lidlington Park, Shillington, East Heddon. [1½pp.] 1633. "Provision of fatlings for the Queens Majesties household": Chicheley. [3pp.] 1604-23 Notes of lands purchased: Tillsworth, Hockliffe, Lidlington & Snelson (county of Buckinghamshire). [1p.] 1630. "Charges in building & repairing upon Kempston Estate". [2½pp.] 1693-94

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Bedford Corporation,
Chester, Anthony,
Mordaunt, John,
Chester, William

Bedford Corporation, ESTATES (LANDED), personal accounts, estate accounts, household accounts, rentals, KEMPSTON, WOOTTON, North Crawley, Chicheley, terriers, Kempston fields, buildings and land use, Drayton [Northamptonshire], City of London Lombard Street, TILSWORTH, STANBRIDGE, SHILLINGTON, Shillington Bury, Shillington mill, East Haddon, Broughton [Staffordshire], LIDLINGTON, Lidlington Park, Tilsworth fields, Buckinghamshire, tithes, Kempston fields, livestock, ROYALTY, HOCKLIFFE, Snelson, building work