• Reference
    MH126
  • Title
    Mortgage: £500
  • Date free text
    24 Feb 1762
  • Production date
    From: 1762 To: 1762
  • Scope and Content
    i) Piggot Ince, esquire, of Middlesex, and wife Mary (Mary being coheir of Margaret Elizabeth Freeman of Middlesex, widow, late wife of –-- Bosworth) ii) Richard Ray of Suffolk, esquire iii) Laurence Richardson of Middlesex, brewer ... a moiety of :- a farmhouse in Colmworth in occupation of John Fensham; Pond close, 24 acres; Topham closes, 15 acres; Ley Field close, 28 acres; Colley Hill close, 15 acres; Long close, 5 acres; Round close, 3 acres; 2 acres Lammas meadow ground; Stanbroke meadow, 4 acres; Home close in Upper End, 3 acres; Colley meadow, 1 acre; the Groves, 2 acres; Long meadow, 5 acres; Hodeskins, 8 acres; a toft in Over End, whereon a cottage formerly stood; Welbyes close, 6 acres; 10 selions; 305 acres in common fields of Colmworth (in Stanbrook, 20, Knight’s Trapfield, 20, Church Field, 20, in the Backside, 4, Little Field, 4, at Whitebrook gate, 10, further side of Whitebrook, 11 and 22; in Clay piece, 20; in Perry croft, 5 acres; in Shelfield leys, 37 acres; upon Sixty acres, 56; in Little Field behind Shackspurr’s, 2 acres; Abney piece, 15 acres; Clay piece, 6 acres; on Waterbalke in Whitebrook, 3 acres; in Burnoe Field, ½, in Capley Field, 4; in Lemon Bridge Field, 12; in Stockings in Toppiece 12, Colley Hill field, 2; Bottom, 17; 2 acres near the back gate of a messuage late in occupation of Mary Robinson; 2 acres in East Croft Field abutting North on church way); all except Topham closes and Hodeskins (which are in Eaton Socon) in Colmworth; late in occupation of Thomas Fisher, Richard Fisher, William King, then John Fensham senior, deceased, now John Fensham junior at £100 rent witnesses: Jonathan Staples, Charles Sheerer, his clerk, Evan Jones, his servant 24 Feb 1762 endorsed deed poll 4 February 1764
  • Level of description
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