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Lease for 99 years : rent 20 m.: £4500 for debts etc and a comp. sum (i) Robert Chernocke of Holcot knight (ii) Francis Earl of Bedford, Humfrey Monoux of Wootton esq, Robert Hewitt of Ampthill Grange esq

28 March 1639

From: 1639 To: 1639

Francis Earl of Bedford to pay debts and maintain Robert Chernocke and wife Dame Agnes and children John, Francis, Robert, Beauchamp, John (sic) and Katherine, and place them in the world and provide portions "in due and fitting manner according to their quality and degree". Manors of Holcot and Beadlow and Clophill etc. in Holcot, Cranfield, Salford, Clophill, Cainhoe, Maulden. £200 yearly rent secured on them during joint lives of Sir Robert Chernocke and father John Chernocke esq. Witnesses Richard Taylor, Edmund Kinge, John Sockling.

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Charnocke, Robert,
Francis,
Earl of Bedford,
Monoux, Humfrey,
Hewitt, Robert,
Charnocke, Agnes,
Charnocke, John,
Charnocke, Francis,
Charnocke, Beauchamp,
Charnocke, Katherine,
Taylor, Richard,
Kinge, Edmunde,
Sockling, John

DEEDS, manors, HOLCOT, WOOTTON, AMPTHILL, Beadlow, CRANFIELD, SALFORD, CLOPHILL, Cainhoe, MAULDEN