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Copy of Court Roll, Manor of Biggleswade

5 & 6 Aug 1748

From: 1748 To: 1748

Admission Elizabeth Kingsley wife of Keylock Kingsley of Sandy Ann Reading of Harpenden, Hertfordshire, widow as daughters & coheirs of Robert Jenkyn, deceased. - 2 messuages containing 3 burgages called the White Hart - 2 cottages late in occupation of John Crick & widow Cooper, then Joseph Lake - 2 acres 3 roods in Back Mead late in occupation of Edward Rudd then Samuel Cole & Thomas Hyde - 5 acre 1 rood meadow in Horsecroft or Longmead otherwise Raymead late in the occupation of Edward Rudd - Whites Close, pasture, 2 acres late in occupation of Henry Gwyn, then Roger Leighton junior - 3 acres ¼ rood meadow in Biggleswade late in occupation of Edward Rudd all surrendered to Edward Rudd by father William Rudd 1706 - copyhold part of arable & pasture, called the Delves late in occupation of Edward Rudd - 17 acres arable in common fields of Biggleswade late in occupation of William Hancock then Edward Rudd - 2 pieces arable in common fields of Biggleswade 18 acres late in occupation of Edward Rudd one parcel being in South Field on Hungerhill or near Hungerhill Piece other in Holmside South of London Road, formerly land of Mark Mott, esquire all of which were purchased by Edward Rudd of Richard Lee of Potton, gentleman - 23 acres 3½ roods arable in common fields of Biggleswade late in occupation Edward Rudd who purchased of Edward Bray - messuage in Biggleswade in Longford End late in occupation of Widow Pratt, purchased by Edward Rudd of George Norman - 10 acres arable in common fields of Biggleswade, stable, granary & garden behind White Hart Inn, purchased by Edward Rudd of Hester & Elizabeth Wiseman coheirs of Lady Bromsall deceased, then in occupation of Edward Rudd & Thomas Marshall - the Plough Alehouse in Shortmead End with pightle 1 acre late in occupation of Joseph Norman - Farm Close Biggleswade 3 acres late in occupation of John Miles, blacksmith - Meadow Close adjoining above 1 acre late in occupation of John Taylor - 2 acres meadow in Long Mead called Dry Holm late in occupation of Edward Rudd - Crown Close 2 acres late in occupation of William Ransome a moiety of which alehouse, pightle, Farm Close, Meadow Close, Dry Holm & Crown Clone were devised to Edward Rudd by his father the other moiety to his brother Jonathan which moiety has since been purchased by said Edward Rudd all of which above property was conditionally surrendered to Robert Jenkyn by Edward Rudd now deceased fine: 11s 8d attached: deputation by John Pepiatt steward of manor, to George Fletcher deputy steward, to hold special court baron to admit Elizabeth Kingsley & Ann Reading witnesses: Griffith Morgan, Robert Austin

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Kingsley, Elizabeth,
Kingsley, Heylock,
Reading, Ann,
Jenkyn, Robert,
Crick, John,
Cooper,
Lake, Joseph,
Rudd, Edward,
Cole, Samuel,
Hyde, Thomas,
Gwyn, Henry,
Leighton, Roger,
Rudd, William,
Hancock, William,
Mott, Mark,
Lee, Richard,
Bray, Edward,
Pratt,
Norman, George,
Wiseman, Hester,
Wiseman, Elizabeth,
Bromsall, Mary,
Marshall, Thomas,
Norman, Joseph,
Miles, John,
Taylor, John,
Ransome, William,
Rudd, Jonathan,
Peppiatt, John,
Fletcher, George

BUILDINGS & LAND USE, BIGGLESWADE, copy court rolls, SANDY, Harpenden, HOUSING, Biggleswade inns, Biggleswade White Hart, cottages, Biggleswade fields, surrenders, copyhold, arable, Biggleswade London Road, POTTON, Biggleswade Langford End, stables, granary, gardens, Biggleswade Plough, Shortmead Street, beerhouses, Biggleswade Shortmead End, blacksmith, fines, steward, Manor of Biggleswade, deputy steward