Reference
Z1542/1/5
Title
Statutory declaration of William Ball of Milton Ernest, farmer
Date free text
1859
Production date
From: 1859 To: 1859
Scope and Content
that: he was upwards of 70; he had known the cottages, land and premises belonging to his rother Thomas Ball of Oakley, farmer, in Milton Ernest for upwards of 50 years; they were described in deeds as an ancient cottage in Milton Ernest formerly in the occupation of John Robinson the younger and Widow Hart, afterwards of Jeremiah Taylor and Richard Stapleton, then of William Taylor, afterwards of James Brown, then of John Disher, since of William Sawfoot and Joseph Hart successively, then of James Odell and then of Joseph Church “being under that same roof with a messuage or tenement formerly of the said Jeremiah Taylor and by him conveyed to Richard Davis and then belonging to Susannah Whitney abutting upon or adjoining to a certain lane called Love Lane and Cooks Lane and separated by a partition wall from the said messuage or tenement of him the said Richard Davis formerly in occupation of Thomas Munday afterwards of Henry Clarke then of Ward since of John Disher and then of Robinson”, also the orchard, yard and backside to the ancient cottage of which part is now occupied with the orchard belonging to the first messuage described as one entire close or orchard, also a little dwelling house on the site thereof, formerly standing in the same yard or backside with a little plot of garden formerly taken out of the orchard belonging to the ancient cottage, the little dwellinghouse and garden formerly in the occupation of Henry Hart, afterwards Stephen Askew which said little dwellinghouse adjoined and was occupied with the next described cottage; a cottage adjoining the little dwellinghouse erected by William Little on the site of the little dwellinghouse or part thereof formerly in the occupation of Henry Dalton, then Paul Summerlin; cottage near the lastly described cottage, also erected by William Little on part of the orchard belonging to the firstly described cottage, formerly in the occupation of Henry Hart, late of Thomas Pecke then of Charles Hibbs; cottage and hovel adjoining in Milton Ernest formerly in the occupation of Jeremiah Taylor, since of Matthew Long, then of William Walker, late of Robert Bettles, then of Robert Parrott; also a plot of land “Number 38” lying in Sand Field containing 28 perches bounded S and E by the land leading to the River Great Ouse, SW by the river, N by allotment to Joseph Brown, NE by ancient inclosure of Thomas Pecke “being the close of pasture or orchard heretofore described”; the cottages and land were purchased by Thomas Ball on 26 March 1842 from Simeon Sutton Slaney of 53 Old Compton Street, Soho [Middlesex], draper, eldest son and heir at law of Thomas Slaney and Thomas Howkins of Basmead, Eaton Socon, farmer, who with William Goodliffe of Little Staughton, farmer, were executors of the will of Thomas Slaney; Thomas Ball offered the cottages and land for sale by auction at the Swan Inn, Milton Ernest on 15 June 1859 as Lot 2 in the sale particulars and that John Christopher Bates of 4 Church Street, Southwark [Surrey] purchased them; the cottages and land were in occupation of Widow Church, Thomas Salisbury, Henry Ball and Daniel Salisbury; William Ball signed by mark; declaration taken by Samuel Newson Gissing
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