X435/153

Covenant to levy and declaration of the uses of a fine

11 May 1787

From: 1612 To: 1787

i) Simmons Trapp, Bedford, lacebuyer and wife Mary William Okeley, Bedford, draper, and wife Martha George Stevens, Bedford, grocer and wife Elizabeth (Martha, Mary and Elizabeth are daughters of Thomas Pierson, Bedford, grocer and tallow chandler, deceased) ii) Joseph Margetts Pierson, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, grocer i) agree with ii) that in the present Easter term or before the end of the Trinity term, they will levy fine of: - capital messuage etc., where George Benson formerly dwelt in East End of Kempston - 93 acres arable and ley in fields of Kempston - close pasture adjoining said messuage (5 acres) - Whorlies Close (2 acres) - 12½ acres and ½ rood meadow or pasture in East Mead in Kempston - 9 acres meadow or pasture in Ham Mead in Kempston all formerly in occupation of said George Benson and on 8 January 10 James I [1612/13] were conveyed by Sir John Fitzwilliam to John Pierson - pieces arable and ley in fields of Kempston (4 acres 2 roods) which were conveyed to John Pierson by lease and release of 12 and 13 August 1718 by William Boswell - Ragway Close in East End in Kempston (4 acres) - 3 acres arable in common fields of Kempston - 17 acres 1 rood in common fields of Kempston - 5 acres in East Mead in Kempston now in occupation of King Taylor the whole to be divided into 3 and held to use of i) signatures of all endorsed witnesses: William Wilshere, Isaac Corall

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Trapp, Simmons,
Trapp, Mary,
Okeley, William,
Okeley, Martha,
Stevens, George,
Stevens, Elizabeth,
Pierson, Mary,
Pierson, Martha,
Pierson, Elizabeth,
Pierson, Thomas,
Pierson, Joseph Margetts,
Benson, George,
Fitzwilliam, John,
Pierson, John,
Boswell, William,
Taylor, King

BUILDINGS & LAND USE, general legal process, fines, BEDFORD, lace buyer, draper, grocer, tallow chandler, Hitchin, KEMPSTON, HOUSING, Kempston farms, Kempston East End, Kempston fields, arable