Reference
X520/240
Title
Mortgage for 500 years
Date free text
30 Sep 1684
Production date
From: 1684 To: 1684
Scope and Content
i) Mary Rivers of Shortnall in parish of Streatley,
and Anne Rivers of Pulloxhill, spinsters,
(daughters and heiresses of Mark Rivers of Wilshamstead, labourer, brother and heir of Matthew Rivers, who was 2nd son of Henry Rivers, labourer, both of Wilshamstead)
ii) Thomas Bruce of Wilshamstead, tailor, and wife Anne
iii) Henry Baskerville of Bedford, "boddicemaker"
[recites that ii) has contracted with i) for the purchase of:
... a cottage in Riseley End in Wilshamstead, formerly in occupation of said Henry Rivers, together with a hempland thereto belonging, and 2 heydons of sward (1 rood), the land of John Warner, gentleman, West, and the highway, North;
and reciting that ii) borrowed £10..10s from iii) for payment thereof]
… [the said recited property]
Witnesses: William Beeche, William Tomkines and William Wattes
Level of description
item