• Reference
    WW354
  • Title
    Settlement on marriage of Thomas Hawes, gentleman (son and heir apparent of Thomas Hawes of Bedford, gentleman) and Constance Shepherd (eldest daughter of Thomas Shepherd of Malden, gentleman)
  • Date free text
    1628
  • Production date
    From: 1628 To: 1628
  • Scope and Content
    ... various messuages and lands in the town and open fields of Bedford, viz. ... one messuage in which Thomas Hawes the elder lives with the malt house and a close of pasture adjoining ... one messuage called the Farm House with close adjoining 2 acres ... closes called the Lowe Croft, the Prebend Close, the Square Close late purchased by Thomas Hawes senior of Robert Paradine, gentleman ... common close near Puttenhoe Gate, 5 acres of leys in Gravell close, 4 acres in the Hill end ... 201 acres arable and sward dispersed in the open fields [no details] all now in tenure of Thomas Hawes senior ... Inn called the Starr in occupation Anne Thornton, widow and Thomas Marshall ... Inn called the Angel in tenure Symon Becket ... one messuage with the Lyme Kylnes adjoining in Bedford in tenure Alice Orpin, widow ... one messuage near the last in tenure John Browne ... one messuage and close adjoining in tenure John Pearson ... one messuage in tenure Matthew Hill ... one messuage in tenure Thomas Foscatt ... one messuage in tenure Thomas Symes ... one shop in Butcher Row in tenure John Phillips ... 2 pightles in tenure Thomas Honeylove ... a yard in tenure Charles Norman ... a pightle in tenure Alexander Turrall ... a garden plot in tenure Thomas Ilves [?Leves] ... 2 closes in tenure Thomas Newman ... 3 tenements and one close late purchased of Henry Angell ... a farm and land [no details] in Biddenham in tenure John Purton ... ground called the Moores in Kempston in tenure William Mouse ... cottage and close in Biddenham in tenure of George Younge ... quit rents out of properties (payable by William Newton of Biddenham, esquire) in Bromham in tenure or occupation of Gregory Paten ... quit rents out of lands in Oakley [no details] in tenure William Barcocke ... quit rents out of messuage and lands in Covington (county Huntingdonshire) [described]
  • Level of description
    item