X147/79

Bargain and Sale: £7,100 i) Rt Hon George, Lord Viscount Torrington. ii) Rt Hon Edmund, Earl of Cork & Orrey. Hon John Byng, esq, George Byng of Wrotham Park, Middlesex, esq. iii) Richrd Astley of Southgate, Middlesex.

26 February 1770

From: 1770 To: 1770

In Clifton. - Matthews Farm, and arable, meadow and pasture land, 172 acres, 3 roods 9 perches, let at £80 per annum. - Pedleys Farm, arable, meadow and pasture land, 125 acres 1 rood 33 perches, let at £68 per annum. - Two cottages with two closes of land, 3 acres 2 roods 20 perches let at £10 per annum. - Clifton Bury, farm, arable, meadow and pasture, 83 acres 2 roods 28 perches let at £88 per annum. - Land in Clifton fields. Excepted from conveyance: Two pieces of sward land held with Shefford Mill. Tenants: Samuel Neale, Sarah Lyles, William Cooke, Sarah Dear, Sarah Hawkings, William Godfrey, Samuel Thorowgood. Witnesses: Morris Robinson, Thomas Pitt Smith, Francis Buxton

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Byng, John,
Byng, George (1st Viscount Torrington),
Boyle, Edmund [7th Earl of Cork & Orrery],
Byng, George,
Astley, Richard,
Neale, Samuel,
Lyles, Sarah,
Dear, Sarah,
Hawkins, Sarah,
Godfrey, William,
Thorowgood, Samuel,
Robinson, Morris,
Smith, Thomas Pitt,
Buxton, Francis

DEEDS, legal papers, CLIFTON, Meppershall Matthews Farm, Clifton farms, Clifton Pedleys Farm, Clifton Bury Farm, Clifton fields