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WE483
Title
[Draft] Marriage settlement:
i) Michael Wainwright of Maulden, yeoman;
ii) Ruth Linford of Maulden, spinster; and
iii) Richard Smith of Woburn, gentleman, and Timothy Squire of Hertford, maltster.
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6 Jun 1739
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From: 1739 To: 1739
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[recites Mortgage, dated 17 October 1606: Edmund Norwood of Ecton (county Northamptonshire], gentleman, to Richard Tompson of Wilstead. ... A messuage in Wilstead in which Anthony Wright then dwelt, with a pightle adjoining, abutting on the common green W., and on Hooked Lane E.; and 3½ acres dispersed in the Common Fields of Wilstead.
Place-names: Western Town Side, Hill Way, Road End Ditch, Sisetts Leys, Hill Field, North Croft; Daynes Field, Sherons Bush Furlong.
Personal-names: William Pyatt esquire, John Warner, Elizabeth Woolhead, George Keyes, John Bray, Thomas Bigg, John Killingworth, John Austin].
...8½ acres in the Common Fields of Wilstead; whereof 1 acre (in 1698, from Edward Cooper), 1½ acres (in 1705, from James Cox), and 6 acres (in1711, from William Cawne, clerk), were all purchased by Nathan Linford (father of Ruth Linford, party hereto). Also a close
(2 acres) in Wilstead (purchased from William Tompkins, 1699, by Nathan Linford). Also the fourth part of a messuage in Maulden, in occupation of Mary Linford, widow; of a close (formerly 2 closes, containing 3 acres), in occupation of John Coleman; also of 25 acres dispersed in the Common Fields of Maulden, and now in occupation of George Warner; 3 cottages in Clophill, in occupation of John Prior and others, and of the gardens adjoining (4 acres); and of 2 acres dispersed in the Common Fields of Clophill, in occupation of [blank] Lyne.
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