• Reference
    X147/38
  • Title
    Marriage Settlement: £800 i) Richard Lee of Potton, gent ii) William Rudd of Biggleswade, gent, Edward Laundy of Baldock, Herts, gent.
  • Date free text
    24 December 1694
  • Production date
    From: 1694 To: 1694
  • Scope and Content
    Recites term of 500 years, marriage between Matthew, so of i) and Margaret, duaghter of W Rudd, and payment of annumities as in X147/34 - Bilberry House, messuage, newly-erected by i). Closes of pasture ground adjoining 10 acres in the occupation of i) - The Holme Close, pasture 4 acres - Spencers Mead, parcel of meadow ground 2 acres - Flagg Mead, close of pasture, 3 acres. - Berrymeade, meadow 16 acres. - Chappell Mead, 15 acrs. - The Long Close, pasture, 8 acres. - Bilberry Home Close, lying next England’s Piece, 8 acres - Henlow Close in Hitchin Field 6 acres, - Swallowbush close in Shefford Field, 7 acres - Great Greenhills Close, pasture, 6 acres. - Little Greenhills Close, pasture, 3 acres - Long Greenhills Close, pasture & meadow, 3 acres. - The Round Close, meadow, 4 acres. - Ruskmead close, meadow, 3 acres. - Messuage. - Meadow arable and award ground bel. Messuage. - Bakerswick Close, pasture 8 acres. - Messuage and meadow, etc bel, 80 acres. - Cottage and close of pasture. - Cottage and pightle of pasture. - Piece of meadow ground in Stanford Holme, 1 rood. - One other piece in the Hollifers, 1 rood. All in Clifton. Occupiers: Peter Ivory, John Sams, Thomas Lovelidge, Goege House, Henry Cooke. Witnesses: Henry Rudd, Edmund Rudd, Edward Laundy, Richard Lee.
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