Reference
RY655
Title
Settlement on Marriage of ii) and Hannah Battman of Leighton Buzzard, spinster, being Assignment by i) to ii) for 5s of property for remainder of terms
Date free text
18 Mar 1715
Production date
From: 1649 To: 1715
Scope and Content
i) John Lake senior, Billington, Leighton Buzzard, yeoman
ii) John Lake junior, Billington, yeoman, son of i)
Reciting demise 19 November 1703 in consideration £60 and for 894 years
by 1) Michael Cooke, Sewell, Houghton Regis, yeoman
Henry Newman, Sewell, yeoman
Ralph Tompkins, Houghton Regis, yeoman
executors of last will of Robert Cooke, father of Michael, late of Sewell, yeoman deceased
to 2) John Lake senior, by the name of John Lake, Billington, cordwainer
of, among other properties
... half yard of meadow or pasture containing 2 acres in Billington Long Mead, Leighton Buzzard, adjoining ground John Sandon, East, ground late Simon Wood deceased, then Edward Simonds, West, abutting South on Eaton Fenn brook
... ½ acre meadow in Billington Little meadow next Portway, East
rent one pepper corn
and
Reciting lease 24 April 1649 for 493 years, rent 2d,
by 1) Benjamin Hogg, then of Billington, yeoman
to 2) Gabriel Hogg, Stanbridge, Leighton Buzzard, yeoman
of
... 2½ acre in fields of Stanbridge
... 3 half acres lie together in Muggingdon Field near Billington Bottom, the middle land being a foreshooter between the land then late of John Godfrey (now Daniel Ellingham), East, and land then of John Tearle, West
... 1 acre in Twenty Acres field in furlong shooting on Billington Bottom, land then of William Jenkins, South, and then of Thomas Brightwell, North, abutting on Kilby Leys, East
which estate has now come to i)
Settlement on Marriage of ii) and Hannah Battman of Leighton Buzzard, spinster, being Assignment by i) to ii) for 5s of property for remainder of terms
signed: John Lake senior
witnesses: John Ashwell, Robert Ashwell, John Edge
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