Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    SJ489
  • Title
    Estate Survey Book with numerous letters and papers interleaved 1805-1833
  • Date free text
    1805 - 1833
  • Production date
    From: 1805 To: 1833
  • Scope and Content
    a) List of tenants with names and yearly rent in Riseley, Bletsoe, Melchbourne, Nether Dean, Upper Dean, Tilbrook, Shelton, Radwell in Felmersham, and Swineshead no date (1817) b) list of rent arrears Midsummer 1817 c) account of Lord St John's personal estate 3 November 1817 (furniture, plate, library, wine, carriages, jewels, arrears of rent, Regent Canal Shares) d) debts charged on settled estate e) memoranda of things to be done f) letter from John Parkinson, Lincolns Inn Fields, to Colonel Hay, the Cottage, Bletsoe, accepting his offer of £40 to shoot over manor of Bletsoe, 23 August 1824 (copy) g) note on sale by Henry Lord St John to Mr Jones in 1805 of next presentation to living of Gotham h) arrangements as to rents, April 1819, including dividing Upper Dean Farm (one tenant W G Paxton) i) memoranda at Audit 9, 10 August 1819 j) memoranda at Rent Days February 1821, August 1822, March and August 1823, March and August 1825, February 1826, March and August 1827, August 1828, February 1829, March and August 1830, 1831 k) copy of W Day's letter to Mr Wilstead with particulars of rent of Melchbourne 11 February 1824 Interleaves include: copy of a letter sent to Mr Adam about improvement of the roads in the neighbourhood of Melchbourne and the implications for the Duke of Bedford's estate Dec 1833 Note of rents 29 August 1833 (present and proposed) with names of tenants in Bletsoe, Riseley, Dean, Shelton, Melchbourne, Swineshead
  • Level of description
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