• Reference
    WI/376-377
  • Title
    Conveyance (Lease & Release): Elizabeth Folder of Lidlington, widow (late Elizabeth Sear, spinster, the only child & heir of Edward Sear, who was only son & heir of Ann Sear, widow deceased., who was one of the sisters and co-heiresses of William Pearson, yeoman; all of Leighton Buzzard), to Thomas Fountaine of Stoke Hammond, Buckinghamshire, gentleman.
  • Date free text
    27,28 Nov 1811
  • Production date
    From: 1811 To: 1811
  • Scope and Content
    – A cottage or farmhouse in Stanbridge in occupancy of Thomas Stanbridge; a pightle adjoining containing 1½acre; a close situated at the north side of Stanbridge Green, containing 3 acres; & 35 acres in the Open Fields of Stanbridge. Place-names: Mill Field, Puddles Pit Furlong; East Field, White Hedge Lane, Black Groves Furlong, Longshorts Furlong, Shortshorts Furlong, Lank Furlong Field, Eggington Town Land, Upper Furlong, Muggindon Farthest Field, Leighton Highway Furlong, Wickham Slough Furlong, the Shady Side of the Hill, Bears Hedge Furlong, the Sunny Side of the Hill, West Way Furlong, Pottage Pot Furlong, Muggindon Home Field, Long Outlong Furlong, Cross Path Furlong, Dringe Furlong, Nalduck Field, Mag Lane Furlong, Aston Dean Brook Furlong, Twenty Acre Field, Aston Dean Furlong, Billington Bottom Furlong, West Way Furlong. Bounding-owners: Mrs Mann, Mr Brown, William Capp, Mrs Willis, Joseph Eames, Henry Sayell, William Pembroke esquire., Colin Gilpin, William Sroggs, William Ellingham, Greathead, William Cotchin, John Stevens, William Buttfield, Rev. Thomas Leigh, [blank] Fowler, John Cooper, Mr Tilcock, John Pain. [Recites Will of William Pearson, dated 28 Nov 1715. – Devises to nephew Edward Sear (son of Ann Sear), in trust for sale so that the profits might be divided between their children and those of their late sister Rebecca Newland. Recites also death of said Edward & transference of all rights in the property to William Newland of Southwark (co. Surrey), baker, who by his Will, dated 3 April 1763, devised his property to wife Ann, & after her decease, to son Abraham, who by his Will, dated 29 Sept 1807, devised to said Thomas Fountain]. [Copies].
  • Level of description
    item