X440/90

Copy of Court Roll, Manor of Biggleswade

2 & 3 May 1710

From: 1710 To: 1710

Admission i) Richard Lee aged 14, son & heir of ii) on death of ii) Mathew Lee of Clifton, gentleman - Messuage in Holme Street, Biggleswade in occupation Thomas Crawley & William Mathewes, rent 1s, fine 4d, purchased by Richard Lee late father of said Mathew Lee, of Thomas Crawley - cottage in Biggleswade in occupation of William Foster, rent 6½d, fine 2d, purchased as above - close called the Delves, 5 acres [see X440/71], late in occupation of Edward Griggs, rent 1½d, fine ½d, purchased by said Richard Lee of Edward Bray of Tempsford, gentleman - 17 acres arable in fields of Biggleswade [see X440/85-88] (this and next entry) [for 8 acres, rent 3s, fine 1s] [for 6 acres & 1 acre, rent 3s, fine 1s] [for 3 acres, rent 1s, fine 4d] - 1 acre meadow in Longmead, purchased of Christopher Challice [see X440/85-88] - 2 acres arable in Northffield formerly of Thomas Goodchild, rent 9d, fine 3d purchased by said Richard Lee of William Young - messuage called The Bell in High street in Biggleswade, lately occupied by Widow Moore - shop in Butcher Row in Biggleswade lately occupied John Griggs [last 2 entries] rent 1s, fine 4d - cottage or tenement in Stratton Street purchased of Thomas Goodchild, rent 7d, fine 2d & 1/3d - reversion after death of Elizabeth Norman widow in the Bell Inn in Biggleswade, rent 1s, fine 4d, purchased by Richard Lee of William Young - land, meadow & pasture in Biggleswade late of Mark Mott esquire [see X440/72] [rent illegible] fine 10d & 1/3 ½d - messuage in Shortmead End & close adjoining, 1 acre, rent 1s 6d, fine 6d - piece of meadow, 1 acre in Backmead late in occupation of John Deere & now occupied by John Keeling, rent 6d, fine 2d, purchased by Richard Lee of Mathew Oakeley

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Lee, Richard,
Lee, Matthew,
Crawley, Thomas,
Matthews, William,
Foster, William,
Griggs, Edward,
Bray, Edward,
Challis, Christopher,
Goodchild, Thomas,
Young, William,
Moore,
Norman, Elizabeth,
Mott, Mark,
Deere, John,
Keeling, John,
Oakley, Matthew

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