Scope and Content
i) Thomas Field of Bedford Town, yeoman
Mary his wife
ii) Thomas Simpson of Bedford Town, malster
Sarah his wife
iii) Nathaniel Clay of Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, weaver
Ann his wife
iv) Richard Dix of Ampthill, joiner
Mary his wife (neé Copperwheat)
lists property belonging to Thomasine Osborne (neè Purton), deceased, which descended at her death to Mary Field, Sarah Simpson, Ann Clay and Mary Dix, as co-partners:
recites X269/21, and divides property between them. Mentions annuity of £40 payable to Samuel Osborne, husband of Thomasine
… messuage in parish of St Mary, High Street, Bedford
… crofts, holms or meadows in parish of Goldington with rush and reed beds and fishing rights
… cottage in Cardington, abutting North on Common Green
… close of pasture or inclosed ground adjoining and belonging to cottage, 1½ acres
… arable land in common fields of Cardington, 15½ acres
… meadow ground in four pieces in common meadow of Cardington, 3 roods
… selion of land in Westfield, Cardington, 1 acre
… arable land in same furlong, 1 rood
… cottage in Elstow
… part of the yard in Elstow down to the Slump or Pales, now divided by a fence, with two lower barns therein
… close of pasture adjoining, 2 acres
… pieces of arable land in common fields of Elstow, formerly estate of John Cox, 3 acres 3 roods
… arable land, ley, meadow and sward ground in common fields etc., of Elstow, 6½ acres
… Marsh Close, pasture or sward ground in West Brookfield, Elstow, 2½ acres
… land in East Mead, Elstow, 1 acre
… land in East Mead, Kempston, 3½ acres
… messuage in Green End, Kempston, and enclosed ground (formerly groves, sometime since stocked up), 3 acres
… pightle of pasture ground heretofore parcel of groves aforesaid, 2 acres
… High Close, pasture, in Kempston, 7 acres
… Parcels of meadow ground in Box Meadow, Kempston, 11 roods
… croft of pasture land in East End, Kempston, 2 acres. Land of Henry Staines, gentleman, adjoining
… rights in a passage from Mill Lane, Kempston to croft above mentioned, for horses and carts by East end of cottage belonging to Martha Bedell, Elizabeth and Sarah Samms
Partition
to Thomas Field and Mary his wife:
Closes, meadows, and holms in Goldington etc.
to Thomas and Sarah Simpson:
messuage in St Mary's parish, Bedford
messuage in Elstow
closes, lands etc. in Elstow: land in East Mead, Elstow, 1 acre: land in East Mead, Kempston, 3½ acres
to Nathaniel and Anne Clay:
cottage in Cardington, land in common fields or meadows of Cardington, and pightle of pasture in East end of Kempston
to Richard and Mary Dix:
messuage in Green End, Kempston, inclosed groves adjoining, and pightle formerly parcel of said groves: also High Close, Kempston. Parcels of meadow ground in Box Meadow, Kempston
Tenants, past and present: Hatton Eston (formerly husband of Thomasine Osborne), Richard Cooke, Thomas Bowers, William Crimfield, Thomas Goss, Samuel Hilliard, Matthew Morgan, gentleman, Samuel Billing, Leonard Wilmot, John Larkins, John Park, Francis Norman, Widow Larkinson, John Cox, Thomas Cox, Henry Bennett, John Savill, William White, William Worrall, John Purton, Thomas Walton
others mentioned: Ann Cox, Whitbread Cox
Nathaniel Clay, Thomas Simpson and Thomas Field sign with marks
witnesses: Henry Horton, Griffith Morgan, John Cooke