• Reference
    BS1874-1875
  • Title
    Mortgage (Lease and Release; lease BS 1874 appears to be missing), £300 at 4%: (i) Richard Gell, yeoman, Pertenhall, and wife Elizabeth (only daughter and heir of John Ibbott, deceased) (ii) John Kirby, Little Paxton, Huntingdonshire, gentleman. 3 messuages, 3 pightles (4 1/2 acres); 36 acres 3 roods in fields of Pertenhall and Tillbrook [as in BS 1872 (except 2 messuages instead of 3), which is recited]; also other property and land in Pertenhall [details given]. Witnesses: E Billett junior, William Wiseman
  • Date free text
    4,5 Jun 1742, citing from 1736
  • Production date
    From: 1736 To: 1742
  • Admin/biog history
    BRA Stamp 958, from Cunliffe & Airey, 48 Chancery Lane
  • Scope and Content
    Details given: - cottage and close of pasture adjoining in Pertenhall, Common green east, orchard of Horn Farm west. The cottage and part of the close were part of the estate of Henry Walker, deceased. The other part of the close was conveyed by John Ibbott to Henry Walker, 2 June 1741. - 4 acres arable and ley in common fields of Pertenhall, late estate of Lawrence Foster, conveyed to Henry Foster by feoffment, 23 May 1633. In the occupation late Thomas Walker, Thomas Jordan. - The Grove House in Pertenhall, abutting common field north, lane south, College close in the occupation late John Meanley, deceased, John Abbott, John Gell east. Cites Conveyance (Lease and Release) 1,2 June 1742: (i) Thomas Walker, Pertenhall, yeoman (ii) Richard Gell. The last three recited properties.
  • Level of description
    item