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Covenant to levy a fine (copy)

21 May 1740

From: 1738 To: 1740

i) Francis Astry of Westminster, D.D., and wife Susan[na], executor of Dame Elizabeth Saunderson of Ramerick, widow (further details of family) ii) Honourable Horatio Townshend of Middlesex, esquire Thomas Hill … property in Pirton and Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, farmhouse at Chaulley End, Caddington, and lands in occupation of Thomas Simonds; Page House; 3 acres in Chaul End part of the manor of Dallow, Luton (Rondleys woods and closes on the road from Dallow House to Dunstable); Penny Acre (25 acres); Dormer’s close (5 acres); 40 acres between Rondly Woods and Chaul End; tithes on said lands in Luton property in Grendon Underwood, Buckinghamshire [recites will of Dame Elizabeth Saunderson 29 March 1738:- devises lands in Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire to granddaughter Elizabeth Hay, widow; and in default of heirs:- ½ to Susan[na] Astry; for life ¼ to Margaret, wife of Richard Ray ¼ to cousin John Waldren of London, mercer, and his sister Mary, for life; and then to heirs of Dorothy How (mother of testatrix)] witnesses: Jonathan Hensby, Thomas Palmer (servant to Dr Astry), Patrick Glass

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Astry, Francis,
Astry, Susanna,
Saunderson, Elizabeth,
Townshend, Horatio,
Hill, Thomas,
Simonds, Thomas,
Hay, Elizabeth,
Ray, Margaret,
Ray, Richard,
Waldren, John,
Waldren, Mary,
How, Dorothy

BUILDINGS & LAND USE, Westminster, Doctor of Divinity, Ramerick, Middlesex, PIRTON, Hemel Hempstead, Caddington farms, HOUSING, Caddington Chaul End, CADDINGTON, Caddington fields, Manor of Dallows, LUTON, woods, Luton fields, tithes, Grendon Underwood, wills, Elizabeth will: Saunderson, Hertfordshire, BEDFORDSHIRE, Buckinghamshire, London, mercer