WI/86

Admission of Thomas Doggett, merchant-tailor, on surrender of John Owen Stubbe, doctor of Physic, & wife Sarah, all of Leighton Buzzard, (by David Willis & Thomas Deverell, tenants); for £509.16s.

26,27 Oct 1809

From: 1809 To: 1809

– Several pieces of land in the Open Fields of Leighton Buzzard, lately belonging to a farm of the said John Owen Stubbe. Place names: Middle Field, Great & Little Mans Mead, the Brook. Bounding owners & occupiers: Thomas Proctor, John Grant, James Proctor, John Stevens, & Mrs Ashwell. [John Owen Stubbe was admitted, 1794 on Surrender of Henry Woodman of Ivinghoe Aston (County Buckinghamshire), yeoman & wife Sarah]. - And also 4 lands & 2 butts containing 3 acres in Oxey Pool Furlong (late Mans Mead Furlong). Shooting to Mrs Flemon’s headland East; To Great Mans Mead brook north; the land of Mrs Ashwell West; shooting to Leek Brook north; & Hatch Close containing 5 acres in Shenley Hill Fields, bounded west by Blooms Hill; east, by the road to the Hatches; north, by the Heath, & south by Leighton Town. [These last premises were purchased with a farm by Edmund Stubbe (Father of John Owen Stubbe) of George Stevens & James Clarke (trustees & devises of Richard Poynton of Leighton Buzzard, shopkeeper, the eldest son & heir of Daniel Proctor), Sarah Proctor (widow of Daniel Proctor) & Mary Proctor (widow of Richard Proctor]. Recites Admission of John Owen Stubbe to the lands & the farm, 1779, and of Edmund Stubbe. 1766. Court of Rev. Thomas Leigh & James Henry Leigh esq. Steward: Thomas Hill Mortimer.

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Doggett, Thomas,
Stubbe, John Owen,
Stubbe, Sarah,
Leigh, Thomas,
Leigh, James Henry,
Mortimer, Thomas Hill,
Willis, David,
Deverill, Thomas,
Proctor, Thomas,
Grant, John,
Proctor, James,
Stevens, John,
Ashwell,
Woodman, Henry,
Woodman, Sarah,
Flemons,
Ashwell,
Stubbe, Edmund,
Stevens, George,
Clarke, James,
Poynton, Richard,
Poynton, Daniel,
Poynton, Sarah,
Poynton, Mary

DEEDS, legal papers, Leighton Buzzard alias Grovebury Manor, Leighton Buzzard fields