• Reference
    SJ152-153
  • Title
    Settlement post marriage of John Lord St John and his wife
  • Date free text
    30/31 Mar 1725
  • Production date
    From: 1725 To: 1725
  • Scope and Content
    1) Right Honourable John Lord St John, Baron St John of Bletsoe (eldest surviving brother and heir at law of William late Lord St John) Right Honourable Elizabeth Lady St John his wife William Shaw, St James, Westminster, esquire the Reverend William Foster, Thrapston, clerk 2) The Honourable Sir John Hynd Cotton of Maddingley, Cambridgeshire, baronet the Reverend Sir John Dolben, Thingdon, knight Richard Flemyng of Stoneham, Hampshire, esquire John Livesay, Henwick Hall, Bedfordshire, esquire (trustees nominated by John Lord St John and Dame Mary Crowley) 3) Dame Mary Crowley, St Ann, Westminster, Middlesex, widow reciting will of William Lord St John 28 January 1718/9 and SJ150 reciting private Act of Parliament to enable John Lord St John to settle a jointure Conveyance by 1) to 2) ... the hundreds of Beresford and Stoughton and half hundred of Willey ... manor of Melchborne with "mannor" house and closes (not described) occupied by Gabriel Roberts, esquire ... impropriate rectory of Melchbourne and glebe, tithes etc. ... various farms (described) in Melchbourne ... manor of Riseley, farms in Riseley, impropriate rectory of Riseley ... manors of Shelton and Dean, farms etc. ... meadow in Biddenham ... manor of Tilbrook cum Hardwick, manor house etc., farms etc. ... manor of East Haddon with appurtenances; farm in occupation of William Langton; farm in occupation of Francis White ... manor house of East Haddon and farm in occupation of William Phillips; farm in occupation of William Collis; cottage etc. late in occupation of Richard Bartlett; land in common fields occupied by Ann Collis ... farm in occupation of Barton Wills ... cottages etc. occupied by Mary Smith, William Chapman ... farm in occupation of William Palmer; close in occupation of Henry Pool, lands occupied by Edward Manning; farm in occupation of Thomas Boswell; cottage in occupation of John Care ... manor of Bletsoe with fishery, manor house etc. and park of 600 acres ... manor of Woodford near Thrapston; manor house and closes, fishery all occupied by John Lord St John; farm in occupation of Thomas Bateman; messuage and cherry ground etc. occupied by Henry Collins; 2 messuages, cottage, farm etc. occupied by J Sanderson; 2 messuages and farm etc. in occupation of Nathaniel Wells; farm in occupation of Michael Leet; land in occupation of William Hollis; farm in occupation of Samuel Brawn the younger; mills in occupation of Samuel Freeman; cottage occupied by Joseph Richardson; spinny close in occupation of Nicholas Stokes; cottages occupied by Thomas Ratley, Thomas Coblow, William Clarke; bakehouse in occupation of Lewis Hills; messuage and maltinghouse and close in occupation of Samuel Roe; cottages in occupation of William Askew, Richard Smith, Ann Darnell, John Turkington, John Neal, Thomas Batson; land in occupation of William Dickens; meadow occupied by William Day in Denford; land in occupation of William Phillips; close in occupation of John Baxter in Denford; meadow in occupation of Samuel Rowton in Denford; cottage in occupation of William Cunnington; cottage in occupation of John Hillyard; messuage, close, fishpond, cottage etc. in occupation of Thomas Richardson the elder ... all his manors in Woodford and Denford ... fen lands in Little Port, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire ... fen lands in Denton Fenn, Huntingdonshire ... Payton Hall manor house in Ramsholt, Suffolk ... messuage on Ludgate Hill to hold to the trusts of the settlement
  • Level of description
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