Reference
RO5/356
Title
Mortgage by Demise for Years
i) Benedict Conquest f Houghton Conquest esquire,
Charles Pyne of Leighton Buzzard, gentleman in trust for above
ii) John Searle of London, gentleman
Consideration: £470
Date free text
15 May 1723; endorsement 26 Jun 1733
Production date
From: 1723 To: 1733
Scope and Content
-manor of Houghton Conquest alias Conquest Bury
-manor house of the same
-the Bury Wood 73 acres
-the Frith alias Crouches Close 10 acres
-Hill Close 26 acres
-Sear's Close 6 acres
-the Great Fatting Pasture 50 acres
-the Horse Close
-Great Brickhill Pasture alias Holcroft 60 acres
-Middle Brickhill Pasture 30 acres
-Little Brickhill Pasture 10 acres
-Crouches Close 12 acres
-Twelve Acres Close 12 acres
-6 acres land in the common fields of Houghton Conquest
-6 acres meadow in the common meadows of Houghton Conquest
-cottage and 4 acres land belonging in Houghton Conquest
-woods belonging to said manor containing 100 acres
in occupation of Benedict Conquest, Edward King, ... Boughton, Joseph Crockett, Thomas Perrott
for 500 years, peppercorn rent
repayment: ... on the 16th... next
Witnesses: Elizabeth Brittan, Ann Conquest, Elizabeth Conquest
15 May 1723
Endorsement: *Recites deed 26 April 1732 by which Searle acknowledged the £470 to be in trust for Thomas Shotbolt of Leighton Buzzard, who since died intestate 1 ?November ...; Prerogative Court of Canterbury administration to brother John Shotbolt who is thus entitled to sum; Benedict Conquest senior died 29 January 1733 and son Benedict junior became entitled; £450 now due paid by Benedict Conquest with consent of Searl to John Shotbolt; residue of term assigned to Laurence Cotham
26 Jun 1733
Witnesses: Goddard Urlin, Richard Ward
*[supplied from recital in RO5/537]
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