Reference
S/AM89
Title
Marriage Settlement: covenant to levy a fine
i) Thomas Paradine, citizen and haberdasher of London and wife Mary
ii) Peter Paradine, son and heir of Thomas
iii) John Leigh of Cauldwell, Bedford St Mary, esquire, Thomas Smith, citizen and haberdasher of London, John Joseph of Cauldwell, yeoman
Marriage between Peter Paradine and Elizabeth, eldest daughter of John Leigh
Date free text
15 Sep 1611
Production date
From: 1611 To: 1611
Scope and Content
... house and site of house of late Friars Minor called the Grey Friars and the late churchyard of the same;
Hamchurch alias Hanchurch alias Hanchetts meadow or close, Bishops close, Coneygree, Friar's grove, Dovehouse and Spicers, with "one auncient dovehouse", Currs or Curriers, New close adjoining the Coneygree Wall;
92½ acres arable;
to use of Peter Paradine and Elizabeth Leigh, in tail, with remainder over;
messuage or farm called Peck's farm alias peck's Place in St Cuthbert's, in occupation of Laurence Mathew, 70 acres land,
4 acres meadow, 10 acres pasture in Bedford and Goldington, and the land commonly called the Chauntery land containing
22½ acres, sometime belonging to the late dissolved chantry of St Cuthbert's;
also Warden lands (28 acres) in fields of Bedford in occupation of Laurence Mathew, sometime belonging to Warden Abbey;
2 parcels of pasture in St Peter Martin "in one of which there is an auncient dovehouse" occupied by Thomas Paradine, John Palmer and Margaret Yarrow, widow;
messuage and orchard, and 2 acres land in Bedford in occupation of Nicholas Broffe alias Turner;
to use of Thomas Paradine and wife Mary for life, then to Peter Paradine as before.
Witnesses: Francis Crawley, Robert Ridge, John Chambers, Lewis Leigh, Thomas Underwood, Robert Welbourne, George Serle
Seals: 2 on tags, 1 unused, one "T.P."
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