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Lease for a year [release missing]

25 Jul 1735

From: 1735 To: 1735

Michael Hillersdon of Midgham (county Berkshire), esquire, and Sarah Crawley junior of [blank] (county Middlesex), gentlewoman, to John Palmer of the Inner Temple, London, gentleman … the Manor of Staffords with appurtenances in Kempston; a capital messuage or farm with appurtenances, late in occupation of John Woodward, and now of Thomas Kilpin; a close called the Broyd (12 acres); a close called Hawcrofts or Hawcroft (7 acres); Barn Close (5 acres); Little Bushey Close (5 acres); Calves Close (3½ acres); close called Long Viccars or Long Viccar Field (12 acres); Wood Close (9¾ acres); Great Plowed Close (11¼ acres); Little Plowed Close (4½ acres); closes called Spring Moor, the Middle Moor and the South Moor, and three islands belonging (23¾ acres together); 10 acres 10 "Feet" of meadow in a place called Box Mead; the Great Wood (13 acres); the Little Wood or the Spring or Coleman Spinny (2½ acres); two small springs called Oxleys Spinney and Redhill Spinney (2¼ acres); (all which woods contain together 18½ acres); and also 10 acres land in the open or common fields of Kempston [draft]

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Hillersdon, Michael,
Crawley, Sarah,
Palmer, John,
Woodward, John,
Kilpin, Thomas

BUILDINGS & LAND USE, non-agricultural leases, Midgham, Inner Temple, Kempston Stafford Manor, KEMPSTON, Kempston farms, Kempston fields, woods, spinney