PM2969

Fair copy Rent Ledger. Prepared by William Pym

1760-1804

From: 1760 To: 1804

Contains: i) Estate in Arlington Street, Bennet Street and Piccadilly, Middlesex : Freehold, subject to no outgoing whatever. Grant from the Crown Temp Charles II. Rent 649.15s lists tenants, date of lease, length of lease, where insured and for how long and in how much Lady and Michaelmas Days 1760 ii) Manor and Estate of Norton, Herts: Freehold subject to a Feefarm Rent of 3.17s2d. Rents besides heriots and fines (being almost all copyhold) lists tenants Rents due, payments, changes of tenancy Lady Day 1760 - Michaelmas -1766 Note Mr Wilkinson of Baldock is steward of this Manor and the rolls from 1606 are in his hand iii) Estate at Holwell, Beds. Freehold 64 per annum pays quit rent 4s Lady Day 1760 - Michaelmas - 1766 iv) Estate at Faxewell, Holwell, Beds Freehold; Copyhold Rent at 44 pa. Quit Rent to Ramericke; to Holwell v) Estate at Leighton Buzzard. Freehold Rent 3 pa rentsLady Day 1760 - Lady Day 1762 vi) Estate at Lidlington [Lidlington] Cambs "in Moieties between Mr Matthew Lacey of Bedford, Houghton, Infant, and my wife [Elizabeth Pym nee Kingsley]" Rent £17 18s 0d Copyhold Quit Rent to Granado Pickard Esq no note of payment vii) Estate at Eltisley, Cambs, Copyhold descended "to my wife on the death of her father in 1749" Note 'I paid for a fine reckoning 2 years Quit Rent deducted but Mrs Kingsley thought this too much and I offered her it at 17 per auum but through some mistakes this was not settled, either, so the whole stands (whatever it is) unaccounted for' viii) Annuity of 100 on William Pym's life purchased Lady Day 1760 for 50 ix) Personal estate in money Interest on 3% Consolidated Bank Annuities 3500 (by Messrs Child as per power of attorney) £52 10s Interest on India Bond 20333 in 'their hands' [presumably Childs] £3 10s Christmas 1760 x) Manor and Estate of Little Staughton lists names, rent due, payments NB farms differentiated 6 February 1761 - Michaelmas - 1777 xi) Manor of Girtford, Sandy similar information to x) above Lady Day 1760 - Michaelmas 1763 xii) Manor and Estate of Little Staughton see x) above Michaelmas 1778 - Michaelmas 1804 xiii) Manor of Hasells and estate at Sandy House and Demesne in hand xiv) Manor and estate at Norton, Herts, see ii) above Lady Day 1767 - Michaelmas 1786 Note "Mr Wilkinson dyed the beginning of this year and 1 this day March 16th 1782 appointed Mr Isaac Hindley Steward thereof during pleasure. NB Mr Wilkinson had in his hands the rolls from 1606 but I left only the rolls from 1718 in Mr Hindleys" xv) Manor of Girtford see xi) above Michaelmas 1766 - Michaelmas 1790 xvi) Manor of Norton (Parish was enclosed by Act of Parliament 1796) see xiv) above Michaelmas 1787 - Michaelmas 1798 xvii) Manor of Girtford, Sandy see x above yearly rent 1791 - 1795 (one entry to 1804) xviii) Manor of Norton, Herts Michaelmas 1799 - Michaelmas 1803 xix) "Commissioners Value of Proprietors land in the Parish of Norton, Herts 1796 in which year the parish was enclosed. Cottages, Mills and low common are not included" include Francis Pym £561 7s 5d beside £1 11s 0d for spinnies Reverend Wollaston Pym £7 16s 1760-1804

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Pym, William,
Wilkinson,
Lacey, Matthew,
Pym, Elizabeth,
Kingsley, Elizabeth,
Pickard, Granado,
Child,
Hindley, Isaac,
Pym, Francis,
Pym, Wollaston

estate management, accounts, Westminster Arlington Street, Piccadilly, lease, Norton [Hertfordshire], specific manors, fee farm rents, heriot, copyhold, HOLWELL, quit rents, Eltisley, annuities, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, LIDLINGTON, bonds, Little Staughton, Little Staughton Manor, Girtford Manor, SANDY, Girtford, Hasells, ENCLOSURE