Scope and Content
Release and Conveyance (lease missing)
i) Thomas Fowler, Hobland Hall, Suffolk, gentleman
Elisha de Hague, Norwich, gentleman
(executors of the will of John Ives Esq., late of Hobland Hall, deceased)
ii) Mary Soame, now wife of said Thomas Fowler, late widow of John Ives
William and Thomas Hurry, Great Yarmouth, merchants
iii) Edmund Cobb Hurry, Great Yarmouth, merchant
George Cadogan Morgan, Southgate, Middlesex and wife Ann
David Tolme, Great Yarmouth, merchant and wife Mary
Elizabeth Hurry, Great Yarmouth, spinster
Ives Hurry, London merchant
Reverend Michael Maurice, Kirby Cane, Norfolk, dissenting minister and wife Priscilla (late Priscilla Hurry, spinster)
[Edmund, Ann Morgan, Mary Tolme, Elizabeth and Ives Hurry and Priscilla Maurice are children of William Hurry by wife Ann, deceased]
Thomas Hurry, Great Yarmouth, Treasurer of the Old Meeting House, Great Yarmouth
said William Hurry
iv) Gilbert Fairlie, Harwich, Essex, gentleman
Elizabeth Fairlie, same, spinster
Margaret Layburn, St George in the East, Middlesex, widow
John Bell, Great Yarmouth, gentleman
(executors etc of the will of Elizabeth Fish of Harwich, widow, deceased)
v) Richard Ray Esq., Hawleigh, Suffolk
vi) Reverend Leonard Towne, Bottesford, gentleman
vii) Thomas Hough, Eastrope, Bottesford, gentleman
Various recitals as to mortgages on the property
i), ii), iii), iv) convey to vi) at the direction of v), for £14,000
- manor of Colmworth etc.
- Lordship Farm in Colmworth and Eaton Socon (606 acres) once in occupation of John Dent at yearly rent of £210
said manor and part of said premises were purchased by trustees of the will of Dame Elizabeth Saunderson from Thomas Brown and Dennis Farrer (devisees etc under the will of Richard Hillersdon). Other part by v) from Thomas Fuller Esq. and John Richardson, clerk (trustees for sale under Act of Parliament of 6 George III) and also 2 closes of pasture in Topham End in Eaton Socon (8 acres) also late in occupation of John Dent at yearly rent of £10
- 3 closes of pasture called Bushey Close, otherwise Mason's Close in Overend, Colmworth
- moiety of close arable called Lady's Croft, Colmworth (4 acres) "and lies common with or as the field lies"
- 2 acres arable in Whitebrook Field, in Colmworth, late in the occupation of John Dent at yearly rent of £23
(premiums of rent of £10 and £23 were purchased by Richard Ray from the trustees of John Fensham)
- Netherstead Farm in Colmworth and Eaton Socon (240 acres) in occupation of Richard Everett at yearly rent of £85 were purchased by the trustees of Dame Elizabeth Saunderson from Thomas Brown and Dennis Farrer
- Channels End Farm etc in Colmworth and Eaton Socon and Wilden (347 acres) late in occupation of Benjamin Everett at yearly rent of £100, purchased by the trustees of Dame Elizabeth Saunderson from said Thomas Brown and Dennis Farrer
- messuage in Church End, Colmworth etc (26 acres 3 roods) late in occupation of Thomas Clarke at yearly rent of £20, purchased by v) from Fortune Fisher
- wood called Langley Wood in Colmworth (13 acres) late in occupation v) as in particulars annexed
to use of vii) in trust for vi)
residue of a term of 2000 years to be assigned by William and Thomas Hurry by indenture of 6 parts of even date with these [not here]
With very detailed schedule of lands, giving field names
Signatures of i) to vi)
endorsed receipt
witnessed by William Steward, Great Yarmouth and John Manley, clerk to William Harvey, Lincoln's Inn