RO29/20-21

Lease and Release (Conveyance) i) John Ransom of Hitchin, Hertfordshire, mealman and wife Ann, one of the daughters of William Brown late of Ampthill, gentleman ii) Honourable John Earl of Upper Ossory

24 and 25 March 1806

From: 1806 To: 1806

Recites: RO29/18 Now: i) appoint that below mentioned premises shall be to use of ii) Now further: consideration: £1,338 i) release to ii) -messuage in How End in Houghton Conquest formerly in occupation of Henry [sic] Stringer then of Mathew Facer and now of Joseph Bennell -4 closes and 3 pightles of pasture adjoining said messuage, 16 acres -29 acres 1 rood arable and ley and 3 half-acres meadow in How End and Houghton Conquest [abuttals given as in RO29/4-5 but Earl of Aylesbury, later Duke of Bedford, is now Earl of Upper Ossory] -10 acres in Houghton Conquest [abuttals given as in RO29/15-16] containing together 56 acres 3 roods purchased by William Brown by Lease and Release 7 and 8 April 1774 [RO29/15-16] free from all incumbrances except quit-rent of £1..2s per annum payable to said Earl of Upper Ossory Signature: i) Witnesses: William Wilshere, Joseph Eade

Russell 'wallpaper books' Volume V. no.100 pg.161

Ransom, John,
Ransom, Ann,
Brown, William,
Fitzpatrick, John (Earl of Upper Ossory),
Stringer, Edward,
Facer, Matthew,
Bennell, Joseph,
Wilshere, William,
Eade, Joseph

legal papers, DEEDS, Houghton Conquest How End, HOUGHTON CONQUEST, quit rents