Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    X125/43
  • Title
    Trust deed (Release - lease missing):
  • Date free text
    22 Feb 1752
  • Production date
    From: 1752 To: 1752
  • Scope and Content
    i) John Lord of Drayton Parslow, clerk and wife Mary, née Alston; (son of John Lord late of Toddington, clerk) ii) Thomas Crawley and Benjamin Reynolds, trustees. … A farmhouse in Kensworth called Jeffery Hamps' farmhouse; in occupation of John Fossey; Home Close and Broad Balk, 3 acres; Middle Spring Close, 3 acres; Bottom close, 2 acres; White piece, 2 acres; Four acres piece; 2 acres late occupied by Richard Aberry; Ten acre close (10 acres) in Downe Field; 1 acre on Hedgrowbalks, in occupation of Joseph Turney; six acres close in the Downes Field; 12 acres in the common fields in occupation of John Fossey: In Crouch Field on Quadlingsbalk, abutting east on Vicarage lane; in Dodgley Field; in Stillipers Field, a piece called Balams acre; in Stipers Hill Field. Owners or occupiers of adjoining lands: Goswinus Smith, Edward Slowe, Henry Slowe, late Richard Atkins gentleman, Henry Benning, William Chew, Thomas Howard, late William Turney, - Willis, late James Nash, Richard Whitley, late John Parken, Thomas Howard. [Recites: Will of William Alston late of Pavenham, only brother of Mary, 1735/6; proceeds of lands to be divided between Mary, and Frances wife of Nehemiah Brandreth of Toddington. Indenture 1737: John and Mary Lord to James Bradshaw of Houghton Regis (but fine not levied); Estate at Kensworth, £40 per annum, on decease of John Lord, father, has become vested in John Lord, son, subject to dower of widow Martha: mortgaged 14 May 1747]. Witnesses: Robert Snoblin, James Burnham.
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