Reference
PO26
Title
Settlement on marriage of Thomas Alderman (son and heir apparent of Thomas Alderman of Bedford, grazier and wife Dowglas), and Mary Collis (sole daughter of Roger Collis of Weekly, Northamptonshire), gentleman.
Date free text
1673
Production date
From: 1673 To: 1673
Scope and Content
- a messuage in St.Paul, Bedford in the occupation of Thomas Paley, gentleman (now mayor of Bedford), being a corner house, abutting:
South: on the site of St. Paul's churchyard and
West: on Sheep Street alias Angell Street
North: on a messuage in the occupation of Richard Mightnall, gentleman
East: on a messuage in the occupation of Thomas Burnewood and Simon Beckett, gentleman
Lately purchased of Theodore Crowley by Thomas Alderman senior
- a messuage in St.Peter Martin, alias St. Peter in-the-fields, late in the occupation of John Lavender, now of Robert Beverly, Esq., lately purchased of Barbara Gascoyne, widow by Thomas Alderman, lying between the ground formerly of the chantry of St. Cuthbert's on both sides, abutting:
South: on the common highway
North: on Bury close belonging to the Hospital of St. John the Baptist.
- 7 acres of arable lying together in Bury Field in the parish of St. Peter, called Spicers Piece, abutting:
North: the land of Thomas Hawes
South & West: land of Mary Risely, widow
East: land belonging to Pecks Farm
- 5 acres of arable or ley in Newnham Field in the parish of St. cuthbert, called Fishponds Piece, abutting:
West: on March leyes
East: on the highway near Gravell Close
North & South: lying next the common highways
- 4 acres called March Leyes in same field, abutting:
West: Stony Piece in possession of said Mary Risely
East: land of Walter Carey
North & South: the common highways
- 11 acres of arable and leys in the fields of Bedford, viz;
4 acres (residue of March Leyes) in Newnham Bedford Field;
3 acres called Fishpond Leyes in same field abutting:
West: the fishponds
South: Hogheards Piece
East: land late of Mary Risely
North: Goldington narrow highway
4 acres in Bury Field in the parish of St. Paul, abutting:
North: the land of Thomas Brumsall in the occupation of John Wylfin
East: mary Risely
South: land belonging to Pecks Farm in the occupation of John Cleyton
West: land nbelongnig to Berry Farm, in the occupation of Robert Beverley, Esq.
-tithes of 8 selions containing 2 acres in Berry Field in the middle of Spicers Piece.
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