• Reference
    BS1928
  • Title
    Assignment of yearly rent: £1,400 (i) Sir John Tyrwhitt of Lincolnshire, baronet, son and heir of Dame Penelope, widow of Sir Philip. (Penelope being daughter of Sir Erasmus De La Fontaine of Leicester, deceased);Sir Edward Southcote of Essex; (ii) Sir Thomas Meres of the close of Lincoln, knight.
  • Date free text
    16 June 1709.
  • Production date
    From: 1709 To: 1709
  • Scope and Content
    -- annual rent-charge of £90 appointed for Dame Penelope from the manor and capital messuage of Holme, with messuages and lands in Holme, Biggleswade, Langford, Clifton, Henlow (“Henley”), Southill (“Southwold”), Broom (“Browne”), Stratton and Warden; recites: 27 July 1671:………… Sir Erasmus De La Fontaine, son John, and others, to trustees: -- property as above; to Sir Erasmus for life, then to son John etc. Witnesses: John Walpoole, Benezer Wood, William Bayly.
  • Archival history
    (British Record Association 890) Tyrwhitt- Drake MSS. (Kent Records Office U488 T7). Transferred by Kent Records Office July 1957, with consent of British Record Association
  • Level of description
    item