X147/27

Assignment: Remainder of term of 21 years: £2,000 i) Walter Rolt of Clifton, Beds esq, Edmund Wingate of Ampthill esq. ii) Thomas Hawkes of Lincoln’s Inn, Middlesex, gent, Christopher Clitherow of London esq.

18 June 1652

From: 1652 To: 1652

Recites Lease for 21 years at £20 per annum of 27 March 1639 (parties as noted in X147/25) – Manor of Lacies in Clifton, bought from Oliver, Lord St John of Bletsoe and Oliver St John esq – Advowson and right of patronage of parish church of Clifton. – Manor house of Lacies alias Clifton, now occupied W Rolt. – Other manor of clifton bought of Francis Russell, Baron of Thornhaugh: Indenture of 15 June 1644: i) W. Dixie, ii) John Dixie. – all property mentioned in lease of 27 March 1639 for reaminder of term: Assignment: 29 May 1652 i) John Dixie, ii) Edmund Wingate. – As in 27 March 1639 and X147/25 and leases to C Clitherow for remainder of term unless W Rolt pays T Hawkes £2,160 before lease runs out. - Land as in X147/25 and - capital messuage and parcels of meadow. 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 and William Woodfield. Witnesses: Edward Smith, George Collopp, James Pratt (mark), Robert Abbott, John Dixie, John Morris, Robert Clayton. One seal

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Rolt, Walter,
Wingate, Edmund,
Hawkes, Thomas,
Clitherow, Christopher,
St.John, Oliver [1st Earl of Bolingbroke, 4th Baron St John of Bletso],
St.John, Oliver,
Russell, Francis (4th Earl of Bedford),
Earl of Bedford,
Dixie, W.,
Dixie, John,
Sheffield, Michael,
Raven, John,
Whitebread, John,
Fletcher, Paul,
Hills, Samuel,
Jeggle, Richard,
Dilly, Richard,
Taylor, George,
Etheridge, John,
Snewsby, John,
Haggis, Nicholas,
Woodfield, William,
Smith, Edward,
Collopp, George,
Pratt, James,
Abbott, Robert,
Dixie, John,
Morris, John,
Clayton, Robert

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