Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    H/WS618
  • Title
    Act to remove lands in Shillington, Stondon and Luton from the uses of Settlements in exchange for others. (Printed)
  • Date free text
    1746-1769
  • Production date
    From: 1746 To: 1769
  • Scope and Content
    Recites : I Marriage Settlement (Lease & Release) 10 & 11 Dec. 1756 1. Sarah Hitchin, spinster, only child and heir and executrix of Edward Hitchin, tanner. 2. Thomas Whitehurst of Hitchin, clerk 3. Richard Hitchin and Joseph Ewesdin, gents., Joseph Margetts Peirson, grocer, and J. Everitt, haberdasher of hats. Money : £260 joint stock 3% bank annuities } £6939-10-0 secured in mortgages, bounds etc.} to be used to purchase land Freehold property in Luton :- 24 acres arable in 4 pieces formerly Jeremiah Bunn's then Edward Ewer's, then Richard Olney's (detailed) Messuage in South End, Luton, formerly occupied Sarah Ewer, widow, Edward Ewer and Jeremiah Bunn, then J. Young, fronting road from Stapleford to Luton; and close 2 acres adjoining Messuage called "the Fountain," in South End of Luton, formerly occupied William Arthur, then J. Morley. 2 cottages adjoining Cottage next Sarah Field's mansion house in Luton 20 acres arable (detailed) 10 acres in 7 pieces (detailed) Freehold property in Hitchin :- Butcher's shop or stall in the Shambles of Hitchin, towards West side of market place ..... Copyhold property in Hitchin :- 2 messuages (detailed) Copyhold of manor of Shillington - 1/ 2rood - Rent 2s. Messuage - Rent 42s. 11d. 2 closes and 1rood - Rent 3s. 3 acres - Rent 3s. Toft formerly a messuage - Rent 20s. 18 acres arable - Rent 23s. 5d. 33 acres land and pasture and all other copyhold late of William Fowler who surrendered them to use of Sarah Hitchin 5 Nov. 1746. II Children of the marriage : Richard Hitchin, Whitehurst aged 10 John Whitehurst, aged 9 Sarah Hitchin Whitehurst, aged 4 III Purchase by the trustees (Lease & Release) 23 & 24 May 1759 - £1,090 1. Thomas Kynaston of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, Middx., clerk 2. Thomas Whitehurst and wife Sarah. 3. Hitchin, Pierson and Everitt (trustees) 4. J. Pilkington Morgan, clerk and J. Midwinter, surgeon of Hitchin. Freehold: Property purchased by James Gazely, yeoman, and wife Rebecca, of Robert Lucas, late of Meppershall, yeoman : Messuage or farmhouse in Over Stondon and Shillington 2 orchards adjoining, 2 acres The Croft, 3 acres 2 closes called the Groves, 8 acres The Hall's Croft, a close of ploughed ground, 1 1/2 acres 1acre arable in a common field in Over Stondon, in Allfold Shot, called The Great Acre, abutting on a baulk called Goreshill Balk Lands, late Richard Lilley West 1/2 acre arable called the Miller's Balk 17 acres arable in Common fields of Overstondon. Property occupied by George Fowler :- 2 acres arable : 1 acre in Tynehill 1/2 acre in Brandland Field (a headland) 1/2 acre in same furlong 1acre arable in East Field, Shillington : 1/2 acre on Crappoles Furlong, abutting on Crappoles Closes. Little Mead Pightle, 1/2 acre, in Shillington. 2 closes in Shillington :- 3 acres furlong occupied J. Kirby 3 acres enclosed arable, formerly occupied William Robinson Property occupied Twyddell Dear :- 17 acres arable in Shillington, of which 6 1/2acres is in one piece in Bury Field and 7 acres is in one piece in East Field. Property occupied J. Flint :- Pightle, 1rood in Over Stondon 1acre arable " " " Property occupied Abraham Green, formerly part of estate of William Green :- 2 1/2 acres arable :- 1acre in Windmill Field in Hanging Hill. 1/2 acre in Chibley Field, in Long Sutton Furlong 2 separate 1/2 acres in Home Field 3 acres arable formerly Matthew Ansell's, occupied J. Flint (detailed) Total rents of all this property : £48-8-0. It was purchased by Thomas Kynaston of Daniel Anstin. A jointure of £100 is secured on this property. Copyhold of Manor of Shillington Rectory to which Thomas Kynaston was admitted 11 June 1746 :- 2 acres arable late Ewesdin's and Whitbread's 1 acre arable late Ewesdin's and Grigg's, since Whitbread's Copyhold of Aspley Bury Manor with Ion, to which Thomas Kynaston was admitted, 23 May 1746 :- 1 acre arable in East Field Shillington, abutting East on Matt, Furlong Close, and on Ridgeway West, late occupied J. Flint - Rent : 6d IV Total rents from all above properties, in both deeds : £177-4-8 Now: Because all these are scattered and are inconveniently situated, they are to be vested in Thomas Whitehurst in fee simple, and other property belonging to Whitehurst in Hitchin (detailed) are to be settled to the same uses. 1769
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