Reference
SJ66
Title
Settlement before Marriage
Date free text
13 Dec 1666
Production date
From: 1666 To: 1666
Scope and Content
1) Dame Barbara St John of Woodford, widow and relict of Sir Oliver St John, baronet
2) Sir Beachamp St John of Welby, Leicestershire, knight
Sir Thomas Allston of Odell, Bedfordshire, knight and baronet
Sir John Robinson, knight and baronet, Lieutenant of the Tower of London
Gervas Pigott of Thrumpton, Nottinghamshire, esquire
3) Myles Fleetwood, Allwincle, esquire
reciting that 1) is seised of:
... manor of East Haddon and lands there occupied by John Geyes, Richard Hawgood, John Smyth, Francis White, widow Bliss, ---Laughton, Robert Chapman, Thomas Collis, Edward Chapman, William White, Edmund Walden, ---Ireton, and also rents out of lands in Bifeild, Pisford and Brampton, and in part of a close of pasture in Rolston, Leicestershire, occupied by William Cureton (laid out at the late inclosure of Rolston) and in cottage and close in Rolston occupied by the same, which descended to 1) as a daughter and coheir of John St Andrew.
... closes in Denton Fenn Common in Denton, Huntingdonshire, and other parts of the Fenn called the Great Level in the Isle of Ely, which 1) lately purchased.
... a life interest in 5 closes in East Haddon (170 acres) formerly occupied by Joseph Boreman and now occupied by John Stanely or John Wills and the manor house and close late occupied by widow Garfeild and now occupied by John Stanley or John Wills, a close called St Andrewes Close late occupied by Francis Butlyn and a close late occupied by widow Bliss (Jakewells close) and a farmhouse (2 acres) and lands in North Field of East Haddon occupied by F White
Settlement previous to the Marriage of Dame Barbara St John and Myles Fleetwood, and declaration of uses.
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