X307/55-56

Conveyance (lease and release) by i) to ii) for £315

11, 12 Apr 1760

From: 1760 To: 1760

i) John Townsend, Shefford, cordwainer (eldest son and heir at law of William Townsend late of Shefford, cordwainer, deceased, by Sarah, his wife, deceased, who was a daughter and heir of Thomas Faldo, late of Shefford) ii) William Harris Jeffreys, St Marylebone, Middlesex, gentleman Conveyance (lease and release) by i) to ii) for £315 … an undivided third part of … manor of Biddenham … messuage or manor house, lately divided into 3 tenements, in occupations of John Gothard, Mortimer Odell and widow Henman … tenement adjoining, now or late in occupation of Thomas Spencer … messuage now in occupation of Thomas Sykes … arable and pasture: Home close 7 acres; Bulls close 3½ acres; Fallow close 5 acres; 2 pightles with hempland and old orchard; pightle called the Spinney 1 acre; pightle called Forthy Acres, ½ acre near the Stone Pitts … 50 acres arable: 7½ acres meadow; 8 acres Midsummer ground Signed: mark of i)

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Townsend, John,
Townsend, William,
Townsend, Sarah,
Faldo, Sarah,
Faldo, Thomas,
Jeffreys, William Harris,
Gothard, John,
Godward, John,
Odell, Mortimer,
Henman,
Spencer, Thomas,
Sykes, Thomas

BUILDINGS & LAND USE, SHEFFORD, cordwainers, St Marylebone, BIDDENHAM, HOUSING, Biddenham Manor, Biddenham fields, hemp, orchards, arable