Reference
X95/411/96a & b
Title
Lease and Release
Date free text
26, 27 Feb 1782
Production date
From: 1775 To: 1782
Scope and Content
i) Johnson Wilkinson, General Post Office, London, esquire (nephew and heir of Isaac Wilkinson deceased)
ii) Isaac Hindley, Baldock, gentleman (nephew and devisee named in the Will of Isaac Wilkinson)
reciting Will of said Isaac Wilkinson dated 16 December 1775:
to sister Jane Hindley, widow
... messuages, lands etc. in Cockekle and Whitehaven, Cumberland
to ii)
... residue of estates in Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Middlesex
reciting also purchase of property in Stotfold and Wrestlingworth by feoffment of 21 July 1778
a) Thomas Walter, Serjeant at Law
John Heaton, gentleman
(devisees in trust and acting executors in Will of Sir Anthony Thomas Abdy)
b) Sir William Abdy, Chobham, Surrey, baronet, brother of Sir Anthony Thomas Abdy
c) Isaac Wilkinson
Isaac Wilkinson died on 3 January 1782
premises at Cockele descended to i) as nephew and heir at law as property in Stotfold and Wrestlingworth had not been conveyed to Isaac Wilkinson at the time he made his will, the legal estate in them also came to i) in trust for ii)
now to put an end to any further doubts
i) releases to ii)
... capital messuage called Spencers
... so much of adjoining pasture as is freehold (3 acres)
... other capital messuage lately erected on freehold part of said pasture
... Mayes Close and Mayes Meadow
... meadow adjoining (3 acres 3 roods)
... Vanes Close
... Vanes Mead
... close pasture beyond the river in Stotfold lying near Hullocks Mead
... Pightle meadow lying near said river
... Blackwell Meadow
... piece of meadow in Munn's Mead near the Glovers pit
... meadow in Low Mead
... meadow in Brook Mead
... 2 acres meadow in Vanes Mead
... doles and swathes in common fields of Stotfold
... 172 acres in common fields of Stotfold
... farmhouse at Wrestlingworth in occupation James Kefford
... 110 acres in common fields of Wrestlingworth
... 5 roods arable in fields of Baldock, Hertfordshire
... 2 acres arable in fields of Willan, Hertfordshire
... ½ acre arable in Weston, Hertfordshire
... ½ acre arable in fields of Willan, Hertfordshire
... tithes on said ½ acre in Weston, Hertfordshire
i) will surrender following copyhold lands to use of ii):-
... 3 roods arable in Stotfold called two Old Roods
... 2 tofts, 1 acre and croft adjoining in Stotfold
South (part): Coles Lane
North: Countess of Peterborough
East: Chapel Street
West: Church Path
... 10 acres arable in common fields of Stotfold now in occupation Thomas Grigory
all held of the Rectory Manor of Stotfold
signature: i)
witnesses: Henry Littledale, H O Roe
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