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Conveyance (Lease for 1 year and Release) by (i) to (ii) in consideration of £1,100 i) Dame Philadelphia Cotton otherwise King late of East Hide in Luton, Bedfordshire and now of Finchley Lodge, Middlesex, widow relict and devisee named in the last will of Thomas King once of Combermore, Chester, late of East Hide, Esquire, deceased. ii) George Wilkins, Markyate Street in Flamstead, Hertfordshire, brewer, James Wilkins, of same place, brewer, eldest son of George and a trustee for his father

14, 15 Apr 1755

From: 1755 To: 1755

--- Messuage called Cantletts alias Cantlowes late in tenure of Thomas Ashby and now in tenure of Henry Laurence with the Great Orchard thereto adjoined in Caddington Woodside in Caddington near Wigmore Lane on the East part and next Woodside Lane on South part --- Cottage or tenement late in occupation of Thomas Hadnutt alias Morris and now in tenure of Robert Ivory in Caddington next Caddington Common on South West --- Close or pightle adjoining --- Closes and parcels of land making 68 acres in Caddington heretofore in the occupation of William Newman the younger but now in tenure of Henry Laurence • Upper Holt Close three acres land heretofore William Chew esquire on South, copyhold land of William Newman the younger called Neither Holt being a meadow on North land of Samuel Coppin esquire on East •Close of arable called Taylor Field with pightle adjoining containing by estimation 5 acres in Hertfordshire next land once William Chew W. •Arable close called Gostons Beech Close containing by estimation 3 acres in Bedfordshire next Pudding Lane on West part • Arable close Upper Holdermore Field by estimation 9 acres in Bedfordshire next Pudding Lane on West • Neither Holdermorefield containing by estimation 6 acres in Bedfordshire next Pudding Lane West • 3 closes of arable lying together and called Woodfields alias Hillfields now laid into two fields containing by estimation 10 acres in Bedfordshire, one of them next common called Caddington Common on Wedst, and the other adjoining the said cottage where Thomas Hadnutt alias Morris lately dwelt • Five acre close, by estimation 5 acres, part planted with fruit trees with yard and barn in same close in Bedfordshire next Wood Lane on East part • Two closes by estimation 6 acres lying together in Bedfordshire next Wood Lane and the part of the two closes which is arable abutts on the ground called Wedgecroft orchard in part and on Woodside Lane in part on North side, the closes being called an orchard called Wedgecroft Orchard part of which is arable part pasture and part wood ground called Wedgecrofts. • Two closes one arable the other wood called the States containing by estimation 4 acres lying together in Bedfordshire next a land leading from Caddington Woodside towards Luton on North part • Home close, arable, 2 acres, in Bedfordshire next the Great Orchard belonging to the messuage on the South part • Two closes one arable one wood called Wigmore Close and Wigmore Wood containing by estimation 8 acres lying together in Bedfordshire next Wigmore Lane on East • Parcel of wood called Starves Croft containing by estimation ½ acre in Bedfordshire and abutting East on Wigmore Lane • Home close, arable, 2 acres, in Bedfordshire next the Great Orchard belonging to the messuage on the South part • Two closes one arable one wood called Wigmore Close and Wigmore Wood containing by estimation 8 acres lying together in Bedfordshire next Wigmore Lane on East • Parcel of wood called Starves Croft containing by estimation ½ acre in Bedfordshire and abutting East on Wigmore Lane • 3 pieces of arable containing 4 acres 3 roods lying severally in Common field called Heath field With liberty of access by the usual way into and from the Inner Orchard lying next on the north part of the said messuage or tenement and next Wigmore Lane on the East part and into and from that little garden plott called the Paled Garden lying next on the East part of the said messuage or tenement and also next Wigmore lane on East part, and to bring, set and carry away all ladders materials and things into and from the Inner Orchard and Little garden plot as shall be needful and necessary to and for the repairing reedifying upholding or amending the messuage or tenement and outhouses next the Inner Orchard and little garden plot doing no wilful hurt in the Inner orchard and little garden plot Signed Philadelphia Cotton

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King, Thomas,
Cotton, Philadelphia,
King, Philadelphia,
Wilkins, George,
Wilkins, James,
Ashby, Thomas,
Laurence, Henry,
Hadnutt, Thomas,
Morris, Thomas,
Ivory, Robert,
Newman, William,
Chew, William,
Coppin, Samuel

East Hyde, DEEDS, legal papers, CADDINGTON, Woodside, Luton Wigmore Lane