Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    NC415
  • Title
    Settlement (feoffment) i) Rebecca Kinge of " Leighton Beaudesert", widow, one of the sisters and heirs of Joseph Seayre of Leighton Buzzard, woollen draper, who was son and heir of Francis Seayre of Leighton Buzzard, woollen draper ii) J Hillersdon of Stoke Hammond, Buckinghamshire, gentleman, Richard Wigg of Heath, Leighton Buzzard, gentleman.
  • Date free text
    9 May 1682
  • Production date
    From: 1682 To: 1682
  • Scope and Content
    Messuage or burgage (erected "since the late miserable fire" in Leighton Buzzard on ground where a messuage stood formerly of Sir Christopher Hoddesdon, then Roger Turner, then Thomas Clapham, then Francis Seayre, and partly on ground where another messuage stood before the fire formerly in occupation Robert Ariatt alias Blackhed, then Richard Carrington, afterwards Francis Welles and Francis Seayre) with right of "paciage" and placing and selling of "pennes and folds before the front of the said new messuage or the late messuages", High Street south, dwelling house of Benedict Cooke (?) west, messuage of Rebecca King and William Horneby in occupation Mary Seayre, widow east, and a piece of copyhold extending to Friday Lane north. to use of i) for life. After her death one moiety is for use of Thomas Veere(?), practitioner in physic, and wife Sarah, one of the daughters of i) for life in tail; and the other moiety is for use of Constance Honeby, only daughter of Rebecca (?) Honeby deceased, the other daughter of i), in tail, remainder to William Honeby, brother of Constance, in tail If Thomas Veere pays the trustees £160 at the Swan Inn, Leighton Buzzard for the purchase of lands to be settled on Constance Honeby in tail, remainder to William Honeby in tail, within 6 months of i)'s death, the whole of the above property is to go to Thomas Veere and his wife.
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