Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    RO5/256
  • Title
    Post-Nuptial and Family Settlement i) Richard Conquest of Houghton Conquest esquire ii) Miles Sandes of Eaton esquire Marriage has taken place between Edmund Conquest son and heir apparent of i) and Elizabeth daughter of ii)
  • Date free text
    1 Dec 38 Elizabeth [1595]
  • Production date
    From: 1595 To: 1595
  • Scope and Content
    Mentions Richard and Lewis, sons of i) and Dorothy wife of i) Consideration: £1,000 i) will before Michaelmas next permit ii) and William Hewett of Millbrook to present writ of entry sur disseisin against i) of the manor of Houghton Conquest alias Conquest Burye with appurtenances in Houghton Conquest, Ampthill, Maulden and Haynes and all other hereditaments of i) in the said parishes and in Clophill, for suffering a common recovery, to the following uses: -manor house called Conquest Burye and appurtenances -Burye Wood containing 73 acres to be employed only for the maintenance of the said manor house, barns etc. and for fyerboote, ploughboote, carteboote, hedgeboote and gateboote -close called Innynges 6 acres -close called Burye Leaze 60 acres -close called the Twenty Acres 20 acres -close called the Fearney Hill 18 acres -wood called Fearney Spynnye 20 acres -close called Hogge Hill -close called the Fortye Acres -close called Rolfes Feild lying together containing 80 acres -close called Hawne Hills 50 acres -close called the Newe Pasture 30 acres -close called the Backsyde 30 acres -tenement wherein one Sparke now dwells, with pightle adjoining containing 5 acres all being, or reputed to be, parcel of the said manor, lying in Houghton Conquest aforesaid, to use of i) for life, then to use of Dorothy wife of i) for life, then to use of Edmund Conquest for life and to his heirs male, in default to heirs male of i), in default to heirs male of George Conquest brother of i), in default to heirs male of William Conquest deceased brother of i) -close called the Hyll Close 26 acres -close called Seare Close 6 acres -close called the Twelve Acres 12 acres -close called the Fryth alias Crouches Close 10 acres -close called Hell Crofte alias Brickhill Pasture 88 acres -close called Broome Close lying open unto Brickhill Pasture 30 acres -close called Laye Close also open unto Brickhill Pasture 30 acres -2 pightles now in occupation of Thomas Davie of Maulden, adjoining to said Laye Close 8 acres -one grove called Brickhill Pasture Groave with 3 other groves adjoining on the said 2 pightles, 30 acres together -close called Lyttle Lymbosies in occupation of Thomas Hewett 30 acres -close adjoining the same Lymbosies called Lyttle Fattynge Pasture in occupation of said Thomas Hewett 35 acres which said premises are in Houghton Conquest, Ampthill and Maulden, being , or reputed to be, parcel of the said manor, to use of i) during life of Edmund Conquest his son and from death of Edmund then to use of Elizabeth wife of Edmund for life as her jointure and from her death to the use of i), then to heirs male of said Edmund, in default to heirs male of i) etc. as above. -messuage with appurtenances called Dynsyes in Houghton Conquest and Haynes in occupation of Francis Arden -close called Grymsey in Houghton Conquest -close called Collens alias Coles in Haynes aforesaid -one little close called the Orchard Close in Houghton Conquest -close called Little Megram in Houghton Conquest -2 pightles called Nether Made in Houghton Conquest -86 acres arable and ltitle close called Lyttle Stockinges in Houghton Conquest, Haynes and Maulden in occupation of Francis Arden -grove of wood 7 acres called Julians Groave -one messuage in Haynes in occupation of ...Same -close called Calves Close in Houghton Conquest and Haynes -close called Hawescrofte in Houghton Conquest and Haynes -close called Neather Close in Houghton Conquest and Haynes -70 acres arable in Houghton Conquest and Haynes in occupation of ...Same -little pightle called Gyddinges Pyghtell -little pightle called Lyttle Crofte in Haynes in occupation of ...Same -messuage in Houghton Conquest and Haynes in occupation of William Daye -close called Pettye Mager in Houghton Conquest -close called Broome Close -close called Monkes Meade in Houghton Conquest in occupation of said William Daye -close called Fearne Close in Clophill in occupation of ... Farre -close 1½ acres in Clophill at the end of Fearne Close -7 acres meadow near Clophill bridge in Clophill -close called Crowleyes 30 acres in Clophill -close called Graunge Crofte in Clophill and Maulden now in occupation of ... Farre to use of i) for life and after death to Richard Conquest, 2nd son of i) and to his heirs male, in default to Edmund Conquest and his heirs male, in default to heirs male of i) etc. as above -messuage with appurtenances and 5 acres pasture in Chappell End late in occupation of Edmund Stratton and now in occupation of Nicholas Cawne -40 acres arable in Houghton Conquest now in occupation of Edmund Hill -messuage in Houghton Conquest in Chappell End Greene now in occupation of ... Gromant to use of i) for life and then to Lewis Conquest 3rd son of i) to heirs male of said Lewis, in default to Edmund Conquest for life and to his heirs male, in default to heirs male of i), in default etc. as above -pasture called Barnackles Feild and Great Fattynge Pasture 86 acres and all other hereditaments of i) in Houghton Conquest, Haynes and Ampthill, Maulden and Clophill to use of i) for life, then to Edmund and heirs male, in default to heirs male of i) etc. as above Jointure of Dorothy Conquest to be void if she remarry after death of i) [other provisoes relating to remarriages etc.] Signature: i) Seal: missing Witnesses: ? Wyllyams, H Sandys, Jeffray Pickard, William Mackreth
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