Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    X147/47-48
  • Title
    Lease and Release: 5/- and premises. i) Sir Wolstan Dixie of Bosworth, Leicestershire ii) Rt Hon Pattee, Lord Viscount Torrington iii) Thomas Corbet of City of Westminster, esq.
  • Date free text
    24 November 1741
  • Production date
    From: 1741 To: 1741
  • Scope and Content
    Recites X147/25, deaths of Walter Rolt and wife, etc., application of ii) to i) for release and conveyance of fee simple, and since mortgage now irredeemable, i) consents and sells to iii) in trust for ii). 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 commonetary fields of Clifton, 20 acres - Messuage once occupied by John Raven. - Land in commonetary 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 commonetary 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. - 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: Richard Dixie, John Dudley
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