Reference
R6/63/35/7
Title
Counterpart Grant
Date free text
12 April 1622
Production date
From: 1622 To: 1622
Scope and Content
Grant
Parties:
(i) Francis, Lord Russell, Baron of Thornhaugh [4th Earl of Bedford from 1627];
(ii) Sir Francis Staunton of Birchmore; Sir Edward Duncombe of Battlesden; Sir John Thompson of Crawley; Sir Robert Chernocke of Hulcote; George Russell of Ridgmont, esquire; William Alford of Tingreth, esquire; John Hardinge of Aspley Guise, esquire
Reciting:
- R6/63/35/1;
- Sir William Russell, later 1st Baron of Thornhaugh was the survivor of the original feoffees and on his death the free school descended to (i), his son and heir;
- (i)’s grandfather, the 2nd Earl, gave £100 to maintain a schoolmaster from the profits thereof but no profit had arisen for some years [see R6/63/35/5] and that the greater part stood to be lost
Operative Part:
- (i) granted the free school to (ii)
- (i) granted an annuity of £10 to (ii) arising from the Manor of of Woburn Abbots to replace the £100 given by the 2nd Earl
Witnesses:
- Cavendishe Alsopp;
- James Reep[?]
- John Kinge
Level of description
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