WI/148

[Copy] Admission of Joseph Howes under the Will of his father Roger Howes, dated 19 Feb 1755

27,28 Oct 1757

From: 1757 To: 1757

Property described in WI/146 viz: - The moiety of a messuage in Billington, late in occupancy of Thomas Nash (purchased of Hogg & Miller); - 4 closes of pasture containing 8 acres; - 9 acres in Billington Fields; - 5 cow commons in Billington Somerleys (late John Hogg’s); - one half-yard of meadow in Billington Mead (late Halsey’s & Miller’s); - 20 acres of customary arable dispersed in the fields of Billington; - 1½ perches of meadow in Mill Fenn; - a piece of lot-mead in Mill Fenn (late of Miller & wife). All devised to said Thomas Roberts by his father, Edmund Roberts. Also - 10½ acres dispersed in the Fields of Billington; - a half-yard of meadow in Billington Long Mead (late Robert Cooke’s); - 14 acres of customary arable & 1 rood of customary meadow in Fields of Billington (late Jenkinsd, then of John Herbett & wife Elizabeth - 2 acres in Billington (late Henry Franklin’s). To which Thomas Roberts was admitted on Surrender of Gabriel Norket & wife Mary Also- a customary messuage in Eggington wherein Edmond Roberts (grandfather of Thomas Roberts; # - 4 closes in Eggington & Clipstone containing 8 acres; - 4 closes containing 10 acres with 2 springs of wood adjoining; - 80 acres dispersed in the fields of Eggington, Slipston & Stanbridge; (late estate of Joshua Mason, gentleman & wife Mary, & of Thomas Doggett & wife Martha); - 7 acres of customary land in Eggington (late of John Burr); - 1 acre of customary arable in Brigendon Furlong (late the land of William Scrivener, before Wadelowe); - several closes called Ardells consisting of 12 acres in Eggington (late Doggets). To which Thomas Roberts was admitted on death of Edmund Roberts, his eldest brother. Recites that Robert Eames of Totternhoe, husbandman (elder son of Eleanor, wife of Thomas Eames of Slapton (county Buckinghamshire), yeoman, (both deceased) and Sarah (wife of Roger Howes, late of Slapton, & now of Pulloxhill) are the heirs of Thomas Roberts (being the daughters of Joseph Roberts of Slapton, who was the eldest brother of the said Edmund Roberts, the grandfather of the said Thomas Roberts.).

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Howes, Roger,
Howes, Joseph,
Nash, Thomas,
Hogg,
Miller,
Hogg, John,
Halsey,
Cooke, Robert,
Jenkins,
Herbett, John,
Herbett, Elizabeth,
Franklin, Henry,
Norkett, Gabriel,
Norkett, Mary,
Mason, Joshua,
Mason, Mary,
Doggett, Thomas,
Doggett, Martha,
Burr, John,
Scrivener, William,
Wadelowe,
Eames, Robert,
Eames, Eleanor,
Eames, Thomas,
Roberts, Joseph

legal papers, DEEDS, BILLINGTON, Billington Summerleys, Billington fields, EGGINGTON, Clipstone, STANBRIDGE, Slapton [Buckinghamshire]