BS1833

Mortgage (demise), £400 at 20 per cent, 500 years: (i) William Willis, Bedford, gentleman and wife Mary (ii) John White, parish of St Sepulchre, Middlesex, gentleman. Messuage with malt house, kiln and kiln house, and new built dovehouse and barn, in St John Street, Bedford; 1/2 acre pasture adjoining purchased by William Willis from Elizabeth White, widow, and son Henry; 38 acres arable and sward in common fields of St Marys parish, Bedford [details given]. Witnesses: John Grey, Thomas Shefford

26 Apr 1731, reciting from 1719

From: 1719 To: 1731

Details given: - 3 acres in Muzzell alias Moswell field, abutting south on Rowmead; - 8 hades alias heydons in Muzzell field; - 2 acres in Conygree alias Barcksditch field; - Roundacre in Holdfield, abutting west on Bedford – Elstow way; - 1 acre (3 lands) in Muzzell field, abutting north on Muzzell Willows alias Muzzell Spring; - 10 acres in Conygree field; - Rye Close, abutting on Bedford – Kempston highway north; - 5 acres in Mother field, abutting north Grove Close; - 2 1/2 acres in Mother field, abutting north on Cardington Bounds; - 7 acres Muzzell field, abutting west on Rowmead, south on Bedford – Elstow highway; - 6 acres in Mother field; - 1/2 acre Fenlake Meadow, parish of Cardington, abutting on entry from Bedford – Fenlake Road. All late in the occupation of Richard Stratton (deceased) then by his widow, now William Willis and wife Mary, purchased by William Willis and wife from John Bulstrode and wife Anne. Recites: (i) Mortgage, 1 June 1719, William Willis to John Bulstrode. - 30 acres of above lands, 1000 years, £120 after death of Elizabeth, wife of William Kitchener, formerly wife of Thomas Bulstrode. (ii) Assignment of Mortgage, 10 December 1730: John Bulstrode to John White. Owners and occupiers of adjoining lands: Late dissolved Hospital of St Leonard, late Caldwell, late [-] Joy, gentleman, Hospital of St John, late Thomas Spencer, late John Newill, Thomas Nottingham, late Alderman White, Henry White, late Oliver Peck, John Bundy, late Mr Ashfield, late John Foster, John Mott Hagable rent of 7d payable to Bedford Corporation. Covenant to levy a fine.

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Willis, William,
Willis, Mary,
White, John,
White, Elizabeth,
White, Henry,
Grey, John,
Shefford, Thomas,
Stratton, Richard,
Bulstrode, John,
Bulstrode, Anne,
Kitchener, Elizabeth,
Kitchener, William,
Bulstrode, Elizabeth,
Bulstrode, Thomas,
Joy,
Spencer, Thomas,
Newill, John,
Nottingham, Thomas,
Peck, Oliver,
Bundy, John,
Ashfield,
Foster, John,
Mott, John

mortgages, gentleman, malthouse, Bedford fields, field names, Bedford Caldwell Priory, St John's Hospital, BEDFORD, London St.Sepulchre, Bedford St John's Street, St. Mary Bedford