Scope and Content
i) James Underwood, Robert, Jane [?Julia] and Sarah Olyffe Underwood, the four surviving children of James and Sarah Underwood;
ii) Sir Montagu Roger Burgoyne, baronet;
iii) Samuel Wells of Biggleswade, esquire, trustee for Sir Montagu Roger Burgoyne
... lands in Potton:-
33 acres 3 roods newly allocated in Sutton Half field, bounded North and West by allotments to Thomas Pate Hankin, esquire, East, by a private road to Potton wood, South, by parish of Sutton
24 acres newly allotted in Butler's Willows field, bounded North by Potton wood, North East, by an old enclosure of Sir Montagu Roger Burgoyne's, East, by Cockayne Hatley, South, by the public road from Potton to Cockayne Hatley, and West, by the private road to Potton wood
1 rood newly allotted in Speller field, bounded East by an old enclosure of Sir Montagu Roger Burgoyne, South East, by Potton wood, and West, by a private road to Potton wood
3 acres newly allotted in Speller field, bounded North East by Gamlingay, South East, by Potton wood, South West, by an old enclosure of Sir Montagu Roger Burgoyne, North West, by a private road
1 rood newly allotted on Fenhouse Bottom, bounded North East by the road from Sandy to Sutton, South and West, by Sutton
15 acres being three old enclosures called Twenty acres closes, bounded North East and South West by allotments to Sir Montagu Roger Burgoyne, South East, by Potton wood, North West, by a private road
7 acres being two old enclosures called the Lawns and Spinney bounded North East by the preceding, South, by Cockayne Hatley, South West, by an old allotment to Sir Montagu Roger Burgoyne, and North West, by Potton wood
The last two "lately formed part of the old enclosures of the said Sir Montagu Roger Burgoyne belonging to his Potton Wood estate" and were given up by him for the purpose of exonerating this estate from great and small tithes under the Act of 54 George III [1814]. All four were late in the tenure of Sir Montagu Roger Burgoyne, Edward Peters, Luke Attwood and William Meeks; and have been allotted by the commissioners under the said Act in lieu of 89 acres in Butler's Willows field and Windmill field (see X115/62-63, X115/64)
witnessed: Robert Lindsell, solicitor, Biggleswade, Edward Chapman, his clerk, Amos Hodgson