Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    RO5/302-303
  • Title
    Manor of Conquest Bury and lands in Houghton Conquest, Ampthill, Maulden and Haynes Lease and Release Enrolled i) Benedict Conquest of Irnham Hall, Lincolnshire esquire, eldest son and heir of Benedict Conquest of Houghton Conquest, esquire deceased ii) Right Honourable John Lord Baron of Gowran Consideration: £10,000
  • Date free text
    10 &11 May 1741
  • Production date
    From: 1741 To: 1741
  • Scope and Content
    -manor of Houghton Conquest alias Conquest Bury -manor house of the same with appurtenances -fishery in River Ouse from Town of Bedford to Barford Bridge -little close adjoining said manor house formerly called the Milking Yard containing 1½ acres and lying near close called the Innings -close called the Plowed Hill, heretofore a wood or grove called Jack Daws Grove 25 acres -2 closes called the Park and Strawbury Wood, formerly one close called Bury Wood 73 acres -the Hill close adjoining last mentioned closes 26 acres -Sear Close adjoining Hill Close 6 acres -Lower and Upper Crouches Closes, otherwise the Frith 15 acres -Bury Leys Spinney adjoining said Park and Upper Crouches Close -close called the Twelve Acres otherwise Crocketts lying between Bury Leys and the Parsonage House 12 acres -pightle of pasture called Allens Green otherwise Adams Pightle 1 rood -Crouches Close Spinney 5 acres adjoining the Frith otherwise Crouches Close -Sear Close Spinney 1 acre lying between Sear Close and Hill Close -close near Parsonage House called Parsonage Leys 7 acres -Parsonage Piece 6 acres :N. and W. by the waste of Houghton Conquest :SE. by Crouches Close -toft lying near the lane leading from the Parsonage House to Houghton Conquest and near a cottage formerly in occupation of widow Perkins -cottage... pasture belonging in occupation of Richard Wheeler -pightle lying near the common field there on the one side and a pightle in occupation of John Ashby on the other side; 2½ acres in occupation of Thomas Smart -3 cottages in a place called the Church End commonly ?? a Mill House and one cottage near the Pound there heretofore in occupation of Christopher Maudlin; one other cottage near a close called Greenland otherwise Green Lane Close heretofore in occupation of Richard Peirson -messuage Now or heretofore a windmill and a little close adjoining 1½ acres -2 tofts containing .. acres one in Chappell End Green and the other between a farm-house heretofore belonging to Mr Wild and Pix Lane -Great Fatting Pasture Now or heretofore divided into 2 closes 50 acres -Limboses Wood, Now commonly called Mountague Wood, adjoining the Great Fatting Pasture and the Horse Close Spinney -Little Fatting Pasture 35 acres lying near a close called the Forty Actes with a pightle and spinney adjoining -close of pasture heretofore called Little Limboses but Now called Horse Close 50 acres and adjoining to said Little Fatting Pasture -Horse Close Spinney and Hawnes Lane Spinney otherwise Plowed Hill 20 acres -Sallow otherwise Salloway Wood 36 acres -2 pightles adjoining said Sallow Wood containing 8 acres -messuage with barns, stables etc. in occupation of Joseph Crouch and 3 closes kNown as Great, Middle and Little Brickhill Pastures, 120 acres part of which was formerly kNown as Ley Close, Broome Close and Holcroft -several cottages with pightles etc. adjoining in Houghton Conquest in occupations of Leonard Cuthberd, Edward Church, Thomas Parrett, Richard Orange, Thomas Richardson, John Edwards, William Peake and Joseph Cooke 2 pightles belonging to tenement in occupation of Leonard Cuthberd 5 acres called Perrott's Pightles in occupation of said Leonard Cuthberd -several parcels of ground in Inn Mead or Bury Mead in Houghton Conquest: ...1 rood :both sides, Archbishop of Canterbury ...3 pieces, each 1 rood lying together : land of said Archbishop : land of Mrs Barber ...3 pieces lying together, one containing 2 roods, next 20´ and the next 10´ : both sides land of said Archbishop ...20´ : land of said Archbishop : land of Mrs Barber ...20´ :land of Mrs Barber on both sides ...10´ : land of Mrs Barber on both sides ...2 acres in the 2nd furlong of the same field : land of the Archbishop both sides ...3 pieces in the said furlong each containing 1 swathe : land of Mr Straton alias Crouch : land in occupation of John Joyce -several parcels in Little Mead in Houghton Conquest ...3 pieces together, one containing 1 swathe, one 1 acre, one 1 rood : both sides land of said Archbishop ...2 roods : land of Archbishop : land of Parsonage of Houghton Conquest ...2 roods : land of Archbishop both sides ...2 roods : land of Archbishop : land of said Parsonage -manor or lordship of Houghton Grange all which premises are in Houghton Conquest, Ampthill, Maulden and Haynes Signatures: i) Seal: armorial - Conquest impaling Markham Witnesses: Mathew Duane, George Wilmot enrolled in Court of Kings Bench
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