Reference
R6/15/3/2
Title
Feoffment
Date free text
20 April 1640
Production date
From: 1640 To: 1640
Scope and Content
Parties:
(i) Bray Chamberlayne of Cranfield, gentleman; Edmund Chamberlayne of Stratton Awdley [Oxfordshire], esquire; Thomas Francklyn of Bicester [Oxfordshire], gentleman; William Turney of Leighton Buzzard, gentleman;
(ii) Henry Butler of Lidlington, yeoman
Operative Part:
- (ii) paid £510 to Bray Chamberlayne;
- (ii) paid 12d each to Edmund Chamberlayne, Thomas Francklyn and William Turney;
- Edmund Chamberlayne, Thomas Francklyn and William Torney, by nomination of Bray Chamberlayne, enfeoffed (a)-(c) to (ii)
Property:
(a) two pightles with the appurtenances called Manor Place called Rutlands or Rudlands, Cranfield containing 5 acres in occupation of Henry Wheeler;
(b) Bushy Close, part of Rudlands Manor, now divided into three parts containing 24 acres in occupation of Thomas Baker;
(c) grove or spinney on N of (b) containing 2 acres
Habendum
- to (ii) for ever to be held of Lionel, 1st Earl of Middlesex as part of the Manor of Cranfield at a yearly rent of 10d.
Witnesses:
- Thomas Edmunds;
- Thomas Hincleton;
- John Lord;
- Edmund Botsworth
Endorsed with memorandum of seisin on 7th May 1640 by Thomas Baker, attorney for (ii), witnessed by Benjamin B Feilds; Ralfe Wheeler (by mark); William Feild; George Baker junior; William Baker junior; John Basse junior; Thomas Cox; Robert Underwood
Level of description
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