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Marriage Settlement being conveyance (Lease and Release) by i) to ii)

30, 31 Aug 1727

From: 1707 To: 1727

i) Thomas Bromsall, Blunham, esquire, son and heir and only child of John Bromsall, late of the same place, esquire, deceased iia) Elizabeth Sherwill, Hackney, Middlesex, spinster iib) John Foster, Thaxted, Essex, gentleman iii) Margaret Sherwill, Hackney, spinster, sister of Elizabeth reciting agreement for marriage between i) and iii) and that estate of iii) in money and land of value £4,500 to be conveyed to i) after ceremony Marriage Settlement being conveyance (Lease and Release) by i) to ii) to uses of … capital messuage or mansion house with tenement adjoining called Lawlesses House in Blunham in occupation of i) … messuages or farms in Blunham now or late in tenure of Jasper Pettit, John Page, Thomas Christmas, John Gilbard and Thomas Lenton and all other freehold property of i) in Blunham except lands and tenements parcel of the manor of Whitehouse in Blunham now or late in tenure of Mary Barr, Mr John Sellis, William Lambert and Thomas Ibbot … messuage or farmhouse and close adjoining containing 1½ acres with appurtenances in Mogerhanger in Blunham once in tenure of John Sibthorpe and now or late of Mary Parkins … 2 pightles of pasture with orchard heretofore purchased of John Savill, deceased, and late in occupation of widow Savill, 3 acres; Overend close pasture, 3 acres; 60 acres arable and leys in common fields of Mogerhanger; 9 acres meadow in common meadows of Mogerhanger; all once John Sibthorpe and now or late Mary Parkins … messuage or cottage and 2 closes of pasture, 3 acres, in Mogerhanger once in tenure of Simon Perry … messuage with appurtenances in Mogerhanger with close adjoining containing by estimate 2 acres, once in tenure of Robert Newman alias Bartle and afterwards of John Barr, and now or late of Mathew Tattman … messuage, farm or tenement in Mogerhanger, close of pasture adjoining with grove of wood next the close, 4 acres in all; 70 acres arable or ley in common fields of Mogerhanger and 14 acres common meadow ground, heretofore in tenure of Sarah Humfryes, widow and now or late of Mathew Tattman … a messuage or tenement and close now divided into 2 closes of pasture containing by estimate 14 acres in Mogerhanger sometime in tenure of Robert Harding and now or late of Mary Parkins … messuage or farmhouse with appurtenances with 240 acres arable and ley and a close of pasture Lime close by estimate 3 acres, a close called Berry close 2 acres, Rangle close 4 acres, a piece of ground called Potters by estimate 1 rood, all in Streatley, and sometime in tenure of William Day, now or late in tenure of Joseph Mead … cottage or messuage or farmhouse in Wrestlingworth being next the common field on the South West, and three closes of pasture ground 8 acres in Wrestlingworth and Cockayne Hatley; 3½ acres leys in common fields of Wrestlingworth and 99 acres arable, and tithes of corn and grain on 6 acres part of the arable, all once in tenure of William Mathew … cottage or tenement in Wrestlingworth late in occupation of Thomas Peters and 10 acres arable in common fields of Wrestlingworth and Cockayne Hatley lately purchased by Thomas Bromsall of James Blowes junior and John Blowes, sons of James Blowes senior, by indentures of Lease and Release dated 23, 24 January 1717 to hold to use of i) for life, then to use of iii) for life for jointure and in bar of dower and thirds, then to use of heirs male of i) and iii), in default heirs female, in default to use of right heirs of i) covenant to levy a fine reciting admission of i) in 1707 as son and heir of his father to copyhold properties held of the Duke of Kent's manor and of the St John's College, Cambridge manor of Blunham, and that i) has lately purchased of Millicent Thurgood, widow and David Estlin, cordwainer … a copyhold messuage or tenement in Blunham and divers copyhold lands held of the Duke of Kent's manor and surrender of Millicent Thurgood and David Estlin on 24 March 1724 covenant by i) to surrender copyhold lands as above (except those now or late in tenures of Mary Barr, John Sellis, William Lambert and Thomas Ibbot) to use of i) and iii) for joint lives, and then to uses as above (mention of i)'s grandfather Thomas and great grandfather Ralph Bromsall) signed by i), iia) and iii) witnesses: Isaac Malleson, W Gaskarll

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Bromsall, Thomas,
Bromsall, John,
Sherwill, Elizabeth,
Foster, John,
Sherwill, Margaret,
Bromsall, Margaret,
Pettit, Jasper,
Page, John,
Christmas, Thomas,
Gilbard, John,
Lenton, Thomas,
Barr, Mary,
Sellis, John,
Lambert, William,
Ibbot, Thomas,
Sibthorpe, John,
Parkins, Mary,
Savill, John,
Savill,
Perry, Simon,
Newman, Robert,
Bartle, Robert,
Barr, John,
Tattman, Matthew,
Humfryes, Sarah,
Harding, Robert,
Day, William,
Mead, Joseph,
Mathew, William,
Peters, Thomas,
Blowes, James,
Blowes, John,
Duke of Kent,
St John's College, Cambridge,
Thurgood, Millicent,
Estlin, David,
Bromsall, Ralph

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