Reference
X478/7
Title
Marriage Settlement (lease and release)
Date free text
20 Aug 1813
Production date
From: 1813 To: 1813
Scope and Content
i) Charles James Metcalfe of Roxton House, esquire
ii) John May of Maldon, Essex, gentleman and daughter Elizabeth
ii) Reverend William Carver of Melbourn, Cambridgeshire, dissenting minister
and Joseph Savil of St Neots, Huntingdonshire, draper
Reciting: X478/4
X478/5
Marriage between i) and Elizabeth May
i) intends to settle at least £50 per annum on wife but hereditaments incumbered with 500 year term under Will of James Metcalfe. Agreed that if any of hereditaments intended to be settled on Elizabeth should be applied in discharging trusts then deficiency to be made up under 1,000 year term to be created in other property belonging to i).
iii) appointed trustees
Subject to 500 year term:
… farm in Roxton, Colesden and Chawson now occupied by Thomas Whifles
… 14 acres 38 perches arable called the Far Ground or Wieffield Holt
… 10 acres 2 roods arable also called the Far Ground or Wieffield Holt
… 7 acres 2 roods 5 perches old enclosed meadow called Wood Close
… 92 acres 3 roods 8 perches arable lately allotted in South Brook Field including part of an old enclosure called The Ley
… 3 acres 3 roods 24 perches old enclosed meadow or pasture exchanged from Trinity College, Cambridge
… 7 acres 1 rood 16 perches arable also exchanged from the College
… 9 acres 10 perches farm homestead
… 2 acres 19 perches called Lovell Close
… 7 acre arable called Three Cornered Close
… pasture called Great Pasture, 10 acres 2 roods 35 perches still in pasture, 8 acres 1 rood converted to arable
… 21 acres 21 perches called the Twenty Acre Plowed Close
… 11 acres 2 roods 29 perches arable called Middle Close
… 10 acres 2 roods 34 perches called the Far Close
… 3 roods 2 perches wood called the Spinney
… 67 acres 2 roods 26 perches arable allotted in Weldin Gap Field
… 41 acres 2 perches arable allotted in Holme Field
… 17 acres 3 roods 37 perches pasture allotted in Colesden Green
… 26 acres 1 rood 9 perches meadow allotted in Chawson Great Meadow
All now leased to Thomas Wifles at £530 per annum
Subject to 1,000 year term:
… mansion called Roxton House and 101 acres 1 rood 9 perches land in Roxton, Colesden, Chawson and Great Barford
… cottage with appurtenances late occupied by John Wallis and now Richard Peet
… cottage with wheelwrights yard occupied by Pieson George
… cottage late occupied by Samuel Flanders
… cottage in Dovecote Close
… messuage late occupied by William Bodger
… messuage late occupied by Robert Lovell
… farm and 320 acres 1 rood 10 perches now occupied by Peter Addington
… farm and 481 acres 2 roods now occupied by Joseph and James Wilkinson
… farm and 258 acres 1 rood 9 perches now occupied by John and William Sanderson
… farm and 64 acres 2 roods 22 perches occupied by James Frost
… farm and 272½ acres occupied by Thomas Wagstaff
… White Hart Inn in Great Barford occupied by James Baker and 7 acres ½ rood land
… farm and 143 acres 3½ roods in Great Barford occupied by Thomas Freshwater
Upon trusts....
Signed : i), ii)
Witnesses: James Smart, Malden; John Bright, Maldon; J P Wedd, Royston; James Wilkerson, Roxton
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