HO46

Grant of common rights i) Thomas Sadler of Aspley Guise, esquire and wife Frances ii) Edmund Harding of Aspley Guise, esquire

3 May 1633

From: 1633 To: 1633

Harding is seised of 4 messuages, 4 cottages and 10 yardlands and claims common levant and couchant. Sadler claims that the common rights were extinguished partly because the property was formerly copyhold and converted into freehold by conveyance of the fee simple by the lord of the manor, and partly because part of waste grounds of the manor were granted to Edmund Harding's grandfather Harding now pays £21. 5s to Sadler and agrees to pay a rent of 1d for the following common rights:- 32 cows, oxen etc. in the Fen (10 acres) and other commonable places (except Pigges Park, 10 acres, to be enclosed by Sadler by agreement) at all times of the year 32 cows, oxen etc. , 300 sheep and 20 horses, geldings or mares, in all commonable places (except in Pigges Park; and except in the Fen which may be used only between 1 August and 25 March) Right to keep hogs and swine on commonable places Right to dig clay, gravel and sand for his own use Right to lay timber where his predecessors were used to do

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Sadler, Thomas,
Harding, Edmund

DEEDS, legal papers, Pigs Park, ASPLEY GUISE, common rights, sand, gravel, timber, clay