Reference
RH6/2
Title
Abridgement of Indenture
Date free text
[paper water marked 1803]
Production date
From: 1803
Scope and Content
1. Sir Francis Clarke of Houghton Conquest, knight was seaised in fee of a newly erected messuage, pightle and dovehouse and of the manor of Dame Ellensbury and of a messuage called Sandeys in Thickthorne.
2. June 5th 8 Charles I [1632] Indenture of Grant to Trustees
i) Sir Francis Clarke
ii) R Conquest
Edward [recte: Edmund] Wylde, esquire etc.
- said new erected messuage, pightle and dovehouse in trust for erecting an almshouse for 6 poor people of Houghton Conquest and the County of Bedford
[marginal note: dovehouse taken down and sold to Mr John Cherry]
3. a rent charge of £24 p.a. out of the manor of Dame Ellensbury
4. a power of distraint in cases of non-payment
5. the poor people to have £8 p.a. divided amongst them by half yearly payments
6. the school master to be placed and displaced by the Masters and Fellows of Sidney College, Cambridge, to be chosen out of the Scholars of Sir Francis Clarke’s Foundation who shall be M.A. and to be displaced by the said Master and Fellows on just and reasonable causes to them shewed by the overseers and churchwardens of Houghton Conquest
7. Henry Pigolt of Gravenhurst, esquire was seised of the manor of Dame Ellensbury for 7 years last past and is now seised (18 February 1659/60) and acknowledges that he ought to pay the said £24 p.a.
8. 18 February 1659/60 Edward Wylde, the only survivor of the trustees named by Sir Francis Clarke 5 June 8 Charles I [1632] conveys the premises to Oliver Luke, Henry Chester and other trustees
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