Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    SJ1473-1474
  • Title
    Conveyance (Lease and Release) by 1) and 2) to 3)
  • Date free text
    17, 18 Feb 1724/5
  • Production date
    From: 1724 To: 1725
  • Scope and Content
    1) John Bowes, St James, Clerkenwell, Middlesex, brewer, brother, heir and sole executor of Thomas Bowes late of same parish, brewer deceased 2) John Musgrave, Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, gentleman, eldest son and heir of Robert Musgrave, late of Bletsoe, gentleman, and wife Elizabeth 3) Thomas Steele, London, distiller in consideration of £1,075 paid to John Bowes and of £1,085 paid to John Musgrave ... a capital messuage in Bolne End, Bletsoe ... Home close 6 acres ... 2 cottages in the Home close ... 2 arable closes Savidges Closes 13 acres ... enclosed arable called Holsoe or Horseley Fields 18 acres ... pasture close Broad Croft 9 acres ... enclosed arable called Hanger Close alias New Ground (once Hangers Close, Trinketts Close, Dolphins Pasture) 12 acres ... a pasture close once Kings Close, Long Close, Cobbs Close, Parke Close, in all 13 acres ... enclosed arable Harts Close adjoining Bletsoe Park 10 acres ... enclosed pasture Sir Williams Close, Wild Buck Close, Pipping Close, Greens Close 20 acres ... wood called Sir William's Spinney 1 acre ... Curtises Close once two closes (Home and Ley closes) 7 acres ... a close once two closes Over Stockings and Nether Stockings 13 acres ... 16 lands of arable 3 acres ... enclosed arable called Little Field (once Little Field, the Grove, Wood Field) 17 acres ... 2 spinneys or woods, one adjoining Pippins Wood and one between Little Field and Wood Field, in all 2 acres ... the Leys Close 12 acres all in Bletsoe ... 24 acres open field land in Riseley Borne End Field and in Bletsoe Borne End Field [described fully] in Bletsoe and Riseley
  • Level of description
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