• Reference
    AN29/31
  • Title
    Mortgage by release
  • Date free text
    20 August 1771
  • Production date
    From: 1763 To: 1771
  • Scope and Content
    Parties: (i) Thomas Lee of Saint George, Hanover Square [Middlesex], esquire; (ii) Thomas Middleton of Lincoln’s Inn [Middlesex], gentleman Reciting: - AN29/7; - the marriage took place; - AN29/11; - lease of 1 December 1765 in which (1) John Schutz the younger and Mary, his wife leased the Manors of Little Barford and Astwick to (2) Thomas Lee at rent of £344; - Thomas Lee duly entered the manors; Operative Part: - (i) released (a)-(ab) to (ii) for £1,000 Property: (a) Manor of Little Barford with advowson of the rectory; (b) free fishing on Great Ouse at right of free fishing in Great Ouse at Eaton Socon and Tempsford; (c) Finnums Close of 10 acres of pasture; (d) Forge Close of 4 acres of pasture; (e) close of 4 acres of pasture adjoining the parsonage yard; (f) Lamas Close of 3 acres of pasture; (g) Midsummer Meadow of 9 acres; (h) parcels of meadow containing 29 acres, 1 rood; (i) 277 acres of arable in the common fields (j) farm containing 140 acres of arable, 10 acres of meadow, (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; (x) Manor of Astwick alias Estwick in Astwick, Stotfold and Langford with manor house and all lands; (y) adowson of Astwick; (z) Greyhound or New Inn near the London Road, Astwick in occupation of William Lennard; (aa) meadow and pasture belonging to Manor Farm containing 170 acres, 19 perches in Astwick in occupation of Edward Pain and William Lennard; (ab) parcels of arable in the common fields of Astwick in Redfield Chain Field alias Marsh Field alias Middle Field, John a Vine’s Field, Topliss Hill Field, Langford Hill Field and Stocking Close containing together 468 acres , 2 roods, 10 perches in occupation of Edward Pain Habendum: - to (ii) Proviso: - for equity of redemption Witnesses: - Thomas Combe; - Thomas Hall
  • Level of description
    item