Scope and Content
Parties:
(i) Julius Alington of Little Barford, esquire;
(ii) Hon Rev John Robert Orlando Bridgman of Weston under Lydeard [Staffordshire]; Aeneas James George Mackay of Albyn Place, Edinburgh, advocate; John Edmund Severne of Wallop Hall, Shrewsbury [Shropshire], esquire; Andrew Johnes Rouse Boughton Knight of Downton Castle [Shropshire], esquire
Operative Part:
- (i) granted (a) to (ii) for £10,000
Property:
(a) Manor of Little Barford;
(b) advowson of Little Barford;
(c) free fisheries of River Great Ouse in Eaton Socon, Tempsford and Little Barford;
(d) site of the manor house;
(e) farmhouse with several closes of arable, meadow and pasture containing 271 acres, 2 roods, 9 perches in occupation of William Emery;
(f) farmhouse with several closes of arable, meadow and pasture containing 266 acres, 1 rood, 5 perches in occupation of John Peck;
(g) farmhouse with several closes of arable, meadow and pasture containing 267 acres, 17 perches in occupation of Edward Peck;
(h) tithes on 81 acres divided into several closes or meadows all adjoining bounded N by meadow of Henry Tingey, W and SW by River Great Ouse;
(i) cottages formerly in the occupation of Edward Emery, John Selby, William Landon, [blank] Lewis, William Beby, Edward Wells, John Barlow, Richard Emery, George Pell, Thomas Peck and Martin Crowcher, since of Thomas Peck, John Living, John Waters, John Barlow, Richard Baldock, Dame Hodgson, Thomas Maggs, William Brightman, John Green, John Andrews, David Toseland, Martin Crutchley and the overseers of the poor of Little Barford;
(j) quitrent of 13/4 per annum issuing out of lands of Henry Tingey;
(k) quitrent of 5/4 out of lands of Henry Adams in Little Barford and Eynesbury;
(l) toft of ground where a farmhouse formerly stood formerly in the occupation of Samuel Berry, some time since taken down, in Little Barford and Eynesbury and now laid into a farmyard;
(m) farmhouse with dovehouse, barns, stables and outhouses;
(n) close of pasture of 12 acres, 1 rood, 32 perches, called Home Close or Dovehouse Close, (formerly several closes including toft where a farmhouse once stood [this may be (b) the wording is unclear], close of pasture of 5 acres, 3 roods, 3 perches, lane leading to and from Spring Close containing 1 acre, 1 rood, 11 perches and Spinney Close);
(o) close of 10 acres, 1 rood, 11 perches adjoining (d) formerly Grove Close and Land Close but for many years laid into one close;
(p) three new closes of meadow adjoining each other containing 27 acres, 3 roods, 14 perches;
(q) closes of arable adjoining each other and containing 201 acres, 3 roods, 13 perches in Topthorne Field;
(r) three closes of arable containing 27 acres, 20 perches adjoining each other in North Field
(p)-(r) allotted to Henry Tingey in three allotments at Little Barford inclosure
(s) toft on which a cottage formerly stood formerly in the occupation of William Wheeler but since taken down, with yard, orchard and garden;
(t) old close of pasture called Print Close adjoining N side of (i);
(u) old close of pasture adjoining S of (i)
(s)-(u) contained 3 acres, 20 perches and for several years had formed one close opposite dwelling and garden late of William Mole containing 3 acres, 35 perches bounded N by Dolls Lane, W by high road leading through Little Barford to Tempsford all formerly in the occupation of William Mole now Thomas Fowler
(v) cottage divided into several tenements in occupation of Thomas Brownall and Edward Emery (w) cottage and close of adjoining pasture of 2 acres in occupation of Thomas Adams, deceased;
(x) close of pasture near (w) and containing 3 acres;
(y) land called Brook Street Lane
(w)-(y) in occupation of Thomas Fowler
Habendum:
- to (ii) subject to proviso for redemption
Proviso:
- for equity of redemption - interest 4%
Witness:
- Arthur Pollock of Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, solicitor
Endorsements:
- further advance of £4,206/6/7 on 8 November 1873;
- reconveyance of 10 October 1888 witnessed by: Arthur Halsted Smith, clerk in holy orders, of Weston under Lydeard; Taverner Lumgavi Knott of 2 Lauriston Park, Edinburgh, writer; Sir Lawrence R M Tighe of Ashgrave, Ruabon [Wrexham], gentleman; John Cox of Downton Castle, footman