Reference
Z226/80
Title
Release (lease missing)
Date free text
2 May 1828
Production date
From: 1828 To: 1828
Scope and Content
i) John Ayres, junior, Wootton, bricklayer and wife Sarah
Joseph Ayres, Beadlow, Clophill, labourer and wife Rachel
Thomas Ayres, Wootton, labourer
James Finding, Houghton Conquest, and wife Elizabeth (late Elzabeth Ayres, spinster)
James Grummitt, Clophill, labourer and wife Ann
(said John Ayres, Joseph Ayres, Thomas Ayres, Elizabeth Finding and James Grummit are five grandchildren named in will of Ben Meagre, late of Houghton Conquest and Stotfold, yeoman, deceased, in which will name Ayres is spelt Hare)
ii) John Hide, Stotfold, cattle dealer
iii) Benjamin Whitmore, Stotfold, farmer
now in consideration of £225 paid by ii)
i) releases to ii)
- messuage in Stotfold together with hempland (1 acre) once in the occupation of William Cooper, then William Hatton and William Wand, and late of William Rainsdon, deceased, and undertenants, Richard Smith and William Waller (present occupiers)
- piece arable (1 rood) in Stotfold, part of Brook Acre, being 5 lands within a quickset hedge
W road from Stotfold and Hitchin
N common sweard and brook
E town of Stotfold
S land into Stotfold
- 1 rood arable in Hempditch furlong
S Thomas Bentley
N common sweard
E Hempditch
W said road
1st mentioned rood is in south part of said close, and last mentioned in in north part. Three lands in between are copyhold and formerly estate of Thomas Bentley and now William Kitchiner all were purchased by Benjamin Meagre of William Kitchiner, William Risely and wife Sarah
iii) to be trustee for ii)
covenant to levy fine
signatures of John Ayres, James Grummitt and ii)
marks of others
endorsed receipt
witnesses:
Edward Cooch, Baldock
Ben Whitworth, Kempston
2 May 1828
Level of description
item