Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    GA1341
  • Title
    Deed of Partition, (copy).
  • Date free text
    20 Jan 1644
  • Production date
    From: 1644 To: 1644
  • Scope and Content
    (i)Thomas Ekins of Ringstead yeoman and wife Mary. (ii) John Ekins of Stanwick yeoman and wife Katherine. To Thomas Ekins and wife Mary:- -- Messuage late occupied by George Jeyes, now by Richard Lavender; 1/2 of a cottage now occupied by Mathias Essex, the other half of the rent having been devised by George Jeyes to the poor of Felmersham; the barn called Gutterbarn late purchased of William Leach; 2 closes of pasture (2 acres) adjoining the messuage occupied by Richard Lavender; close of pasture ( 2 acres); Football close (2 acres); Little Hardwicks close (1acre); Townsend close (2 acres) new enclosed; and in Pinchmill field; Dickonsons close (3 acres) late purchased of Thomas Dickenson; 35 acres 3 rods in Felmersham:- In Pinchmill field, lying behind the messuage occupied by Richard Brookes, lying in the Slench, on the Nether furlong, on Hobbes leyes; In Rowley field, on Bidwell furlong, on Hayden hill furlong, abutting Fox Brook slade, on Upper Hayden hill furlong, near Hayden hedge gap, on Fox Brook hill furlong, on Normans meadow furlong, abutting Fox Brook furlong, on Oland furlong, lying on the back side of a messuage occupied by William Smith, on Hennage furlong, on the furlong under Phillips, on a furlong, shooting on Rookes way; In South field, on Cox head abutting the Ash Tree, at the Bowling leys, at the Scallions, in Bean land, on Rode hill furlong, shooting in Smallden slade, on Over Bean land, on a furlong at Phillips end, abutting Bossom hill furlong, on Lady Hedge furlong, lying by Larking slade on the furlong above Gore croft, shooting on Coleman's piece; In West field, in Short Croft, at Wills meadow, in Long Ellany, going through 2 furlongs above Portway, on the Nethernmost furlong, on the Uppermost furlong, lying between the baulks at Portway, next Portway, above Priggmoores, shooting on Middle Stork leys, shooting against the east end of West meadow, beyond Odell way, on the east side of Odell way, in Western well baulk, on Nether furlong; Several parcels of meadow, in East meadow, 2 1/2 rods being the 1st meadow in the short pole, abutting the meadow of the Earl of Manchester belonging to Colworth pasture in Sharnbrook; In Gad meadow; In West meadow, in the 1st dole, in Ox Lesueres, in the Round Hurst, against Odell Court. To John Ekins and wife Katherine.:- -- Cottage called Hardwicks House, and cottage occupied by Thomas Watts from which George Jeyes left 10 s. to poor of Ringstead and Stanwick; messuage occupied by Joan Rootham widow; Great Hardwick close (4acres); Phillips close (6rods); pightle (1/2rod.) lying at Hardwick between pightles of William Leach and William Cobbe; Ashgrove close (1acre); new enclosed ground called Bossoms hill (3 1/2 acres) 37 acres 1 1/2 rods in Felmersham:- In Pinchmill field, at Burforde Knowle, abutting near Whitecross hedge, abutting down against Pinchmill; in Rowley field, on Badwell furlong, on Haden hill furlong, on Fox brook hill furlong, on Normans meadow furlong, on Hennage furlong, lying under Phillips, under Hardwick lane end; In South field, in the Scallions, in Coxhead, near the Butts, abutting Bagwell, in Bean land, shooting into Smalden slade, in Nether Bean land, in Over Bean land, against Phillips, on Bossoms hill, on Lady Hedge furlong, shooting into Larking slade, on the west side of Colemans piece; In West field, near Odell way, above Prigmoores close, abutting the near way between Felmersham and Chellington, shooting on Five acre piece, near Nether Starkes leys, on the upper side of the Lt. Quarries, below the Quarries, shooting on Ox Lesuer Hedge, shooting on West meadow; parcels of meadow, in East meadow called the Corner; in Gadmead; in West meadow, in the Park hurst, abutting the Galley boards. Owners etc. of adjoining lands: William Leach occupied by Thomas Clarke, John Cossen, John Fitzjeffery gentleman, late purchased of Oliver Earl of Bolingbroke, William Cobbe gentleman, William Smyth, Thomas Barker, John Ekins late George Jeyes, Robert Parker, Robert Warner, the Rectory of Felmersham, Richard Holding, Edward Cobbe, Mr Franklin, Anthony Clarke, Michael Alenn, John Curtis, George Ashton alias Benson, ? Rudd.
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