• Reference
    X520/129
  • Title
    Counterpart of X520/128
  • Date free text
    23 Oct 1750
  • Production date
    From: 1750 To: 1750
  • Scope and Content
    Mortgage for 1,000 years: for £2,000 i) Henry Every, esquire (eldest son and heir apparent of Sir Simon Every of Eggington (county Derbyshire), baronet, and devisee of Dame Dorothy Every, widow of Sir John Every) ii) Edward Garthwait of St George, Hanover Square (county Middlesex), esquire and Marmaduke Hilton of London, merchant iii) Anna Spencer (wife of Samuel Spencer) of St George, Hanover Square [recites X520/124] … a farm in Chappell End in Houghton Conquest, in occupation of John Bigrave; Meadow Close and Home Close (together 15 acres); 2 closes called the Ploughed Closes (together 26 acres); a close of pasture called the Long Pightle (12 acres); a close of pasture called the Great Ground (40 acres); a close called the Eighteen Acres Pasture (18 acres); a pightle of pasture with Grange Wood (together 9 acres); and 15 acres dispersed in the open fields of Houghton Conquest, viz: 5 acres each in Mill Field, Chappell End Field and Dean Field; also several closes in Houghton Conquest called the Goss Close, the Square Pightle and High Field with the spinney thereto belonging, containing together 48 acres; all which are let to John Bigrave at the yearly rent of £130. (to hold to ii)) Witnesses: John Redshaw, William Swale, George Howard and Joseph Clifton [4 membranes] (in the covenant against incumbrances a fee farm rent of £12 is excepted)
  • Level of description
    item