X307/43-44

Conveyance (lease and release) by i) to ii) for £157..10s

12, 13 Sep 1757

From: 1757 To: 1757

i) Lucy Foocks, Shefford, widow Lucy Fox, spinster, daughter of Lucy Foocks Samuel Fox, late of Biggleswade, now of Baldock, Hertfordshire, barber and perriwig maker (devisee in will of Samuel Fox late of Ampthill, barber and perriwig maker, deceased) ii) William Harris, Bedford, gentleman Conveyance (lease and release) by i) to ii) for £157..10s … their sixth part or parts of … capital messuage in Biddenham heretofore in occupation of Thomas Brace, gentleman, now of John Godward … messuage or manor house in Biddenham, heretofore in occupation of Richard Farey, now of Thomas Sykes, and all land, i.e. … Home close containing 7 acres … Bulls close containing 3½ acres … 2 pightles near the messuage with hemplands and orchard … pightle called the Spring, by estimate 1 acre … pightle at Stone Pits … 50 acres arable in Churchfield, Middlefield, Windmill field, North field and Southfield … 7½ acres meadow and 4 acres meadow … ½ acre sweard called Forty Acres Signed: i)

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Foocks, Lucy,
Fox, Lucy,
Fox, Samuel,
Harris, William,
Brace, Thomas,
Godward, John,
Farey, Richard,
Sykes, Thomas

BUILDINGS & LAND USE, SHEFFORD, BIGGLESWADE, Baldock, barbers, periwig maker, wills, AMPTHILL, BEDFORD, BIDDENHAM, HOUSING, Biddenham Manor, Biddenham fields, hemp, orchards, arable