Reference
X702/1
Title
Mortgage
Date free text
4 Jul 1701
Production date
From: 1701 To: 1717
Scope and Content
i) Sir James Astry, Woodend, Harlington, knight
James Astry, Woodend, esquire (son and heir apparent of said Sir James
ii) Charles Cutts, St Paul, Covent Garden, Middlesex, haberdasher
iii) John Carter, Furnivalls Inn, London, gentleman
consideration - £2,200 paid to i) by ii) and to destroy all estates tail
i) release to iii)
- Manor of Wadlow in Harlington and Toddington
- capital messuage or mansion house in Woodend, Harlington, whererin said Sir James lives
- Dovehouse Close (4 acres) in Harlington, late in occupation of Sir James
- Little Jacob's Close (7 acres) lying near said mansion house
- farmhouse now in occupation of William Langford in Woodend, Harlington
- close called the Hookes (4 acres) in Woodend, Harlington, now also in occupation of William Langford
- 3 closes pasture adjoining said messuage (6 acres)
- Cheynes Close (6 acres) in Harlington
- 3 closes called Pond Wadlowes (20 acres) in possession of said William Langford in Toddington and Harlington
- farmhouse in Woodend in occupation of William Godfrey
- Coppy Close (40 acres)
- 2 closes adjoining said messuage (6 acres) in occupation of said William Godfrey
- parcel of meadow abutting on Cranfield bridge, Harlington
- Jeofferies Close - pasture - in Harlington (4 acres) also in occupation of William Godfrey
- farmhouse in Harlington in occupation of John Odell, in Harlington, and bounded by the Green and Tingrith Lane
- close pasture adjoining (16 acres)
- little close at bottom of said close (½ acre)
- Feilde Grove and close adjoining abutting on Westoning Woodend Feilde (20 acres) in Harlington and Westoning in occupation of John Odell
- farmhouse and pightle adjoining where William Martin dwells in Harlington
- cottage wherein George Bunker dwells with orchard adjoining in Westoning
- farmhouse in Westoning in occupation of William Cowley
- 2 closes pasture adjoining (4 acres)
- close pasture (6 acres) called Harpers in Westoning in occupation of said William Cowley
- 2 cottages adjoining to the tithe barn in Westoning, in occupations of John Faldo and Richard Burgis
- cottage at Westoning Townsend late in occupation of John Odell
- other cottage in Westoning in occupation of Thomas Brittaine, weaver
- arable lands in Harlington (60 acres) 'with the house therewith lett' known as Froghall in possession of William Robinson
- inclosed grounds (20 acres) in Toddington in occupation of George Shaw
- cottage with close adjoining (4 acres) in Gosle End, Harlington, in occupation of George Nicholls
- rectory or parsonage appropriate of Westoning and all great tithes
all above are now in possession of iii) by virtue of a lease for a year made the day before this deed and to be released to iii) with the intent to make him tenant of the freehold and to suffer a recovery of the property sued forth by ii) with the result that it shall stand to the use of ii) for 500 years on such trusts as appear in a deed of even date
however if Sir James shall pay to ii) £2,310 i.e. £55 on 4 January 1701/2 and £2,255 residue on 4 July 1702, then said term of 500 years shall determine
signatures of all
endorsed witnesses: F Brace, F Brace junior
'memorandum that the interest of the within mentioned two thousand and two hundred pounds begins at the 22th day of July 1701'
memorandum as to the repayment by ii) to i) of £2,200 on 'the day and yeare first within written'
memorandum that £2,000 only remains to be paid, 12 December 1717
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