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RO13/15
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1752
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From: 1752 To: 1752
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RO13/6 Marginal note: Question what Francis Squire was to John Squire... it does not appear that William Fisher disposed of his will of the copyhold purchased from George and Susan Burridge; whether that is now to be purchased by the Earl of Upper Ossory... I find afterwards that it is part of what he is to purchase
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RO13/8 marginal note: Question receipts for £30 of the £40 legacies, my lord to be satisfied that the remainder of the £40 was paid
RO13/10 marginal note; the cottage was Burridges, the 3 acres etc. were Squires
29 April 1743 At court of the manor of Millbrook in Honour of Ampthill; on 13 August 1742 John Fisher surrendered conditionally out of court by hands of Francis Bushby and William Roffe
-copyhold premises as above to use of Jonathan Ward of Woburn Abbey (one of the domestic servants of his Grace the Duke of Bedford)
repayment: £120 on 13 November following in servants' hall of Woburn Abbey
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Easter 25 George II [1752] John Fisher levied Fine to Earl of Upper Ossory being joined with Taylor and others
NB. John Fisher says Thomas Burtt the Mortgagee had all the writings both of the copyhold and freehold though the freehold was never mortgaged to Burtt - Burtt has absolutely lost all the deeds, strict search having been made several times after them
He says William Fisher, fell monger above 50 years ago purchased the greatest part of the freehold and copyhold mortgaged to Jonathan Ward, from Francis Squire.
He says the copyhold house in Sandy End and pightle belonging lying cross or by the highway there, the said William Fisher bought of George Burridge. He says the other part of the freehold the said William Fisher bought of one Turner (long before he made his purchase of Squire). He says the estate bought of Turner, now called Turner's Hill is a little close, 1 acre and lies near the Church and is now in the occupation of George Mallison commonly called Yorkshire. He says that formerly there were 2 cottages upon this close but not in the memory of any person now living. He says that he remembers a barn being there but that it was down before his father's death, 50 years ago. He says some other parts of the estate were purchased by his father but he does not know of whom.
He says this William Fisher by his will made a little before his death which happened about 50 years ago, gave all his estate to John Fisher of Millbrook, his son and his heirs to pay the legacies and bring up 2 or 3 of his sisters. He says that John Fisher followed his trade of a fellmonger and to enable him to pay the legacies and bring up his sisters he sold all his whole estate both free and copy to his half-brother William Fisher and his heirs who enjoyed it accordingly and made the will set out in this abstract. He says that John Fisher the son and devisee of old William Fisher did not come to age until a year or more after his father's death and that during that minority Thomas Brace and Ralph Jellis were his guardians.
There has always been a quiet and uninterrupted possession and John Fisher, subject to Jonathan Ward's mortgage, has always been looked upon to be the undoubted owner both of the freehold and the copyhold. He is now a widower, his wife dying in May 1748
Legal Opinion
by Mathew Duane, Lincoln's Inn, 13 July 1752
"... the title is very far from being clear... as it is a convenient purchase for my Lord of Upper Ossary and the money to be paid is not much, I think his Lordship may (if he thinks proper) proceed in the purchase ... were it my own case I should go on ..."
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