RO5/340

Mortgage in Fee by Lease and Release [Lease wanting - see X274/24] i) Benedict Conquest of Houghton Conquest and wife Hannah ii) John Tuffnail of Elstow, gentleman, Mary Peale of Town of Bedford Recites: 10 and 11 August 1703 Mortgage in Fee by Lease and Release (i) John Birch, clerk, said Benedict Conquest ii) Baldwin Conyers esquire

24 Jun 1714

From: 1714 To: 1714

Consideration: £100 -messuage or cottage late in occupation of William Young in Houghton Conquest and close of pasture belonging 3 acres -cottage late in occupation of Samuel Cook in Houghton Conquest repayment £106 Recites: Indenture 6 May 1712 i. Baldwin Conyers ii. Adrian Metcalf esquire reciting above recited Indenture and that sum was unpaid; assigns above premises Recites: Deed Poll of Assignment on Dorse of last recited Indenture I) Adrian Metcalf II) John Birkhead Consideration: £100 + interest due (subject to equity of redemption) Recites: Indenture 1 December last [1713] (I) John Birkhead (II) Adrian Metcalf, Benedict Conquest (III) John Tuffnaile Consideration: £100 paid by (III) to (I) premises as above subject to equity of redemption Recites: that Benedict Conquest is endebted to John Tuffnail in £500 principal by a mortgage by a term of years of another part of the said premises which he has assigned to trustees to protect the estate hereinafter granted Now: consideration: £400 paid by Tuffnail to i) (to make to £1,000 the £100 and £500 previously loaned) £300 paid by Peale to i) [NB this £300 is paid off by RO5/348] -premises as above -manor of Houghton Conquest alias Conquest Bury -manor house of the same -the Parks and Bury Wood 73 acres -the Frith alias Crouches Close 10 acres -Hill Close 26 acres -Sear Close 6 acres -Twelve Acres Close 12 acres -Little Brickhill Pasture, Middle Brickhill Pasture, Further Brickhill Pasture 80 acres -Sallow alias Salloway Wood 36 acres -Horse Close 50 acres -Great Fatting Pasture 50 acres -Little Fatting Pasture 35 acres with pightle and spinney -Limbosses Wood alias Montague Wood -the Horse Close Spinney -close called Six Acres -close called the Parsonage Piece -Hawnes Lane Spinney alias Plowed Hill 20 acres -Green Lane Close 4 acres -44 acres arable, meadow and ley in Houghton Conquest all in Houghton Conquest, Ampthill, Haynes and Maulden in occupations of Benedict Conquest, George Snagg*, Nathan Linford, William Boughton + , Joseph Barber, Joseph Crockett, Thomas Perrott, Thomas Woodcroft and William Bonner* and all other premises of i) in Bedfordshire repayment: to John Tuffnail £1,030 on 25 December next to Mary Peale £390 on same date Signatures: i) and Tuffnail Witnesses: William Goodhall, G Arnald, William Turner, Jo. Hay, Ann Lesquire * supplied from RO5/341, + Bowton in RO5/341

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Conquest, Benedict,
Conquest, Hannah,
Tuffnail, John,
Peale, Mary,
Birch, John,
Conyers, Baldwin,
Young, William,
Cook, Samuel,
Metcalf, Adrian,
Birkhead, John,
Snagg, George,
Linford, Nathan,
Boughton, William,
Barber, Joseph,
Crockett, Joseph,
Perrott, Thomas,
Woodcroft, Thomas,
Bonner, William,
Goodhall, William,
Arnald, G.,
Turner, William,
Hay, J.,
Lesquire, Ann

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