Scope and Content
Parties:
(i) Sir Francis Saint John of Thorpe alias Long Thorpe [Northamptonshire], baronet;
(ii) Thomas Browne of Arlesey, doctor in physic;
(iii) Mary Browne of Saint Anne, Soho [Middlesex], spinster, only daughter and surviving child of Samuel Browne, deceased;
(iv) Denis Farrer of Cold Brayfield [Buckinghamshire], esquire
Reciting:
- AN30/1;
- the marriage took place;
- Thomas Browne was dead;
- John Browne, second son of Thomas Browne was dead;
- Samuel Browne died 26 January 1716 [1717] leaving Thomas Browne his only child but leaving Mary pregnant with (iii) who was born 21 April 1717;
- Thomas Browne, son of Samuel died 21 March 1721, an unmarried infant at which point (ii) entered rectory and tithes not limited in the jointure of Mary, mother of (iii), subject to raising a proportionate part of the £3,000 portion for (iii);
- Isaac Ewer was dead leaving (i) as surviving trustee for 200 years;
- AN29/2;
- report of Master in Chancery of 18 July 1740 stating that the property of (ii) in possession was worth £3,890 and premises in the jointure of Mary, mother of (iii) were worth £9,317/15/-; from which £3,882/17/11, when deducted from Mary, mother of (iii)’s jointure, left £5,435/7/1 meaning that (ii)’s estate in possession was to pay £1,251/8/4¼ and (ii)’s estate in reversion was to pay £1,748/11/7¾ to make up (iii)’s portion; the costs of the action of (i), (iii) and Oliver Saint John were to be paid, but the master had not yet ascertained them;
- this order was confirmed;
- report of the master of 29 July 1740 taxing (iii)’s costs at £79/8/-, the costs of (i) and Oliver Saint John at £20/5/6 - a total of £99/13/6 of which (ii)’s estate in possession was to pay £41/16/6 and the estate in reversion was to pay £57/17/- making total to pay by (ii)’s estate in possession £1,293/4/10¼ and the total for (ii)’s estate in reversion £1,806/8/7¾; he had computed interest on the £3,000 portion from 21 January 1739 [1740] as £78/5/9 to be paid by (ii) to (iii);
- (ii) agreed to pay £1,293/4/10¼ to (iii) without mortgage;
- (ii) had paid (iii) her interest of £78/5/9;
- (iii) paid £20/5/6 to (i);
- only the sum of £1,806//8/7¾ remained to be paid to (iii) and (ii) proposed to do this by mortgage
Operative Part:
- (ii) paid £1,293/4/10¼ to (iii);
- (iv) paid £1,806//8/7¾ to (iii);
- (iv) paid 5/- to (i);
- (i) bargained and sold (a)-(ad) to (iv)
Property:
(a) Manor of Little Berkford;
(b) free fishing on the Great Ouse in Little Barford, Eaton Socon and Tempsford;
(c) site of the manor with appurtenances;
(d) Finnums Close of 10 acres of pasture;
(e) Forge Close of 4 acres of pasture;
(f) close of 4 acres of pasture adjoining the parsonage yard;
(g) Lamas Close of 3 acres of pasture;
(h) Midsummer Meadow of 9 acres;
(i) parcels of meadow containing 29 acres, 1 rood;
(j) 277 acres of arable in the common fields
(c)-(j) formerly in the occupation of Jasper Edwards
(k) tenement with adjoining close of 3 acres formerly in the occupation of Edward Thrassell, since Jasper Edwards;
(l) farmhouse with appurtenances containing 140 acres of arable, 10 acres of meadow and close of pasture of 3 acres adjoining the homestead in occupation of Richard Peck;
(m) farmhouse with appurtenances containing 76 acres of arable, 10 acres of meadow and two closes of pasture containing together 2 acres, 2 roods in occupation of Thomas Tingey;
(n) farmhouse and appurtenances containing 176 acres of arable, 15 acres of meadow and two closes of pasture containing 8 acres in occupation of Widow Harding;
(o) farmhouse with appurtenances containing 9 acres of ley, 3 roods of meadow and 2 acres of pasture formerly in the occupation of William Savile;
(p) messuage with close of 1 acre, 2 roods of pasture adjoining formerly in the occupation of Oliver, 2nd Earl of Bolingbroke;
(q) cottage and adjoining close formerly in the occupation of Thomas Wats;
(r) cottage and adjoining close of 2 roods formerly in the occupation of Richard Ady;
(s) cottage and adjoining close of 2 roods formerly in the occupation of Widow Tilly;
(t) cottage with adjoining close formerly in the occupation of Widow Alenson;
(u) nine cottages in occupation of John Collier, John Hookes, John Roods, John Peck, Anne Tilly, Widow Betham, James Bayley and Leonard Wright;
(v) quit rent of 13/4 issuing out of lands of Thomas Tingey;
(w) quit rent of 2/4 issuing out of lands of Ashcombe [Sir Oliver Ayshcombe?] in Little Barford and Eynesbury
(k)-(w) formerly in the occupation of John Fettiplace, Samuel Pain, Thomas Hooke, Thomas Pearse, Elizabeth Bayley, Benjamin Thorneley, Henry Tingey, Stephen Rawlins, Oliver Chewne and Edward Dean, now or late in occupation of Edward King, Thomas Tingey, John Emery, William Emery, Edward Peck, Richard Peck, John Dorrington, Thomas Watts, John Cobb, Thomas Eyser, William Emery, Henry Ireland, Leonard White, John Adams, James Bayley, John Elimone, Widow Collier, Widow Merrington, and Thomas Browne
(x) Manor of Astwick alias Estwick in Astwick, Stotfold, Langford and Arlesey with manor house and appurtenances;
(y) Elmors alias Elmolds Close with hopground and Holmes Close adjoining, in Stotfold, being lamas ground; Church Mead; The Springs, near Astwick parsonage; two closes called Coneygrees; Ten Acres Close; Seven Acres Close; Hill Close; Hallowell Close; Gallow Close; Butt Close; Heycocks Close; meadow called Wheeler’s Mead; close called Temple Lees; Bush Close; Little Townsend Close; Townsend Spring; H[igh? Text here defective] Close; closes called the Hempland; pightles next to the mill and south of the highway; Ball’s Close; Estwick’s Close; Kitts Butts; Irnns Close; Porke Mead;
(z) 280 acres of arable in the common fields formerly in possession of Thomas Cockayne;
(aa) cottages in Astwick formerly in the occupation of Anthony Keyford, John Keyford and William Surtle;
(ab) inn called Greyhound or New Inn in Astwick near the London Road formerly in the occupation of John Griggs with two closes of pasture belonging containing 4½ acres;
(ac) cottage formerly in the occupation of John Lovell with orchard and close of pasture of 2½ acres;
(ad) 6 acres and ½ rood of arable in the common fields of Astwick
(x)-(ad) formerly in the occupation of Thomas Greene, gentleman, William Rowland and other people
Habendum:
- to (iv) for 200 years
Proviso:
- for equity of redemption by the person entitled to the reversion of (a)-(ad) - interest at 5%
Operative Part:
- (iv) paid 5/- to (i);
- (i), with permission of (iii) and by appointment of (ii), bargained and sold (ae)-(ah) to (iv)
Property:
(ae) Rectory of Arlesey;
(af) advowson of Vicarage of Arlesey;
(ag) advowson of Rectory of Little Barford;
(ah) advowson of Rectory of Astwick
Habendum:
- to (iv) for residue of 200 years, in trust for (ii)
Witnesses:
- E Bowles;
- Richard Woolfe;
- Richard Jones;
- John Hewett;
- George Ault;
- John Arnold