RO5/367

Mortgage by Demise for Years i) Benedict Conquest of Houghton Conquest esquire ii) Benjamin Green of Ampthill, woollen draper Consideration: £147..8..7

3 Nov 1726; endorsement 20 Jun 1733

From: 1726 To: 1733

-manor of Houghton Conquest alias Conquest Bury with appurtenances -manor house of the same -Bury Wood, now divided into 2 closes, one called the Parke or Warren and the other called Strawberry Wood and part of the said wood is added to a close of pasture hereinafter mentioned and called the Frith alias Crouches alias Crocketts Close -the Hill Close formerly pasture but now ploughed -close called the Frith alias Crouches alias Crocketts Close 15 acres - Twelve Acres alias Crocketts Close 12 acres -parcel of arable called the Parsonage Piece 6 acres -several parcels of meadow in [Grea]t Meadow, 4 acres -several parcels of meadow in the Little Meadow, 2 acres -pightle of pasture called Allens Green alias Adams Pightle 1 rood all in Houghton Conquest in the occupation of said Benedict Conquest and Henry Carter -cottage in Houghton Conquest called the Warren House in occupation of James Goodman -cottage in Houghton Conquest in occupation of Thomas Perrott -2 closes or pightles of pasture in Houghton Conquest belonging to said cottage containing 5 acres called Perrotts Pightles and now in occupation of said Thomas Perrott -[6] cottages in Houghton Conquest in several occupations of Thomas Richardson, Thomas Perrott junior, John Dudley, widow Richardson, John Edwards and Richard Pierson -... ploughed ground called Little Brickhill Pasture 12 acres in occupation of said ... -... Middle Brickhill Pasture together with the rickyard [or pightle adjoining] 30 acres ... oddard ... -2 little closes or pightles...Charles Copperwheat -[Lay Close, Broome Close and Brickhill] Pasture alias Holcroft [?now forming] [one close or ground called] the Great Brickhill [Pasture]* now in occupation of said Charles Copperwheat -[Horse Close 50 acres] now in occupation of William Linford -2 closes [called the*] Great Fatting Pasture and the Little Fatting Pasture in occupation of Edward King [60 acres*] all which premises are in the several occupations of Benedict Conquest, ... Carter, Charles Copperwheat, Willliam Linford, Joseph Hill and Edward King in Houghton Conquest, Ampthill and Haynes -Sallow Wood 36 acres -Little Limbosei Wood 10 acres lying near aforesaid Great Fatting Pasture -wood called the Grove 6 acres lying near aforesaid Little Fatting Pasture -Crouches Close Spinney 5 acres adjoining to aforesaid Frith alias Crouches Close alias Crocketts Close -Seyre Close Spinney 1 acre lying between aforesaid Seyre Close and Hill Close all which woods are in Houghton Conquest and Ampthill and are in occupation of Benedict Conquest for 1,000 years at peppercorn rent repayment: £151..2..3 on 3 May next Signature: i) Witnesses: Goddard Urlin, Joseph Hustler 3 Nov 1726 Endorsement: Assignment repayment not made i) died 29 January last [1732/3] on whose death Benedict Conquest of Long Birch, Staffordshire esquire, eldest son and heir of Benedict Conquest became entitled to the reversion of the said premises Now: consideration: £196..7 paid to Benjamin Green by Benedict Conquest. Benedict Conquest the son assigns the mortgage to Laurence Cotham for residue of 1,000 years Witnesses: Goddard Urlin, Charles Copperwheat 20 Jun 1733 *supplied from RO5/369; other words in [ ] supplied from RO5/365

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Conquest, Benedict,
Green, Benjamin,
Carter, Henry,
Goodman, James,
Perrott, Thomas,
Richardson, Thomas,
Dudley, John,
Richardson,
Edwards, John,
Pierson, Richard,
Copperwheat, Charles,
Linford, William,
King, Edward,
Hill, Joseph,
Urlin, Goddard,
Hustler, Joseph,
Cotham, Laurence

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