Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    X147/25
  • Title
    Mortgage and Covenant to Levy a Fine: 500 years: £2,000 i) Walter Rolt of Clifton, Beds esq, Frances his wife, Wolstan Dixie the Elder of Market Bosworth, Leics, esq son and heir of Sir Wolstan Dixie, deceased. Hugh Snawsell of Bilton, Yorks, esq, John Onebye of Hinckley, Leics, John Dixie and Thomas Dixie of Gray’s Inn, Middlesex, esq sons of Sir W Dixie. ii) Thomas Hawkes of Lincoln’s Inn, Middlesex iii) William Woodfield and James Pratt of Clifton
  • Date free text
    18 June 1652
  • Production date
    From: 1652 To: 1652
  • Scope and Content
    Lands comprised in the Manor of Lacies, alias Clifton, in Clifton, viz: - Messuage with barns, stables, gardens, etc used with croft of land adjacent - Bakerswick Close, 8 acres - Sallowbush Close, 8 acres - Land in common fields of Clifton, 20 acres - Messuage once occupied by john Raven. - Land in common fields of Clifton, 20 acres - Berry Meade, meadow, 16 acres - Two closes of pasture, called the twelve Acres. - Part of Berry Close, 3 ½ acres - Long Close, 8 acres - Part of Chappell Meade or Scroopes Meade, 10 ½ acres - Arable land in common fields of Clifton, 30 acres - Remainder of Cheppell Meade, 4 ½ acres - Flagg Meadow, 2 acres - Two other parts of Berry Close, 7 acres - Messuage once in the occupation of Richard Dilly. - Close adjacent to messuage 8 acres - Henlow Close, 10 acres - Messuage and close adjacent 2 ½ acres - Messuage and close adjacent 3 acres - Greenhills Close, 6 acres - Greenhill Meadow, 8 acres - Round Meadow, 3 acres. All these situated in parishes of Clifton, Meppershall, Nether Standen, Over Standen, Shefford, Millbrooke, Stamford and Dunton. To the use of ii) for 500 years and then to use of John Baldwin of Great Stoughton, Hunts, esq, Richard Edwards of Henlow, Beds, esq and William Haggis, esq of Henlow for 50 years, then to Frances wife of Walter Rolt for her lifetime, then to use of Wolstan, John and Thomas Dixie and William Abbis of Stotfold for ever. The Manor of Lacies in Clifton and any property not hitherto assigned, to the use of John Baldwin, Richard Edwards and William Haggis for 50 years if W Rolt live so long: then to Frances his wife for life, for her jointure, then to W, J, and T Dixie and William Abbis for ever. One lease: 21 March 1639 for 21 years i) W Rolt, ii) Wolstan Dixie, exempted. Occupiers: Michael Sheffield, John Raven, John Whitebread, Paul Fletcher, Samuel Hills, Richard Jeggle, Richard Dilly, Walter Rolt, George Taylor, John Etheridge, John Snewsby, Nicholas Haggis. Witnesses: Robert Abbott Senior, John Morris, Thomas Faske, Francis Hunt, Miles Stapilton, Christopher Heseltine, Christopher Hoddinge. Seals
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