Reference
X27/16
Title
Inquisition Post Mortem of Edward Duncombe, taken by George Gosnold, escheator
Date free text
1638
Production date
From: 1627 To: 1638
Scope and Content
Manors of Potsgrove, Lovell's Bury and Battlesden, advowson of the church, and lands in Potsgrove etc., as in X27/11.
By indenture of 5 June 1627, Edward sold the manors of Potsgrove, Lovell’s Bury, and the land in Potsgrove to his son William on condition that the latter paid Edward’s debts amounting to £8,350, set out in a schedule of the 20 April between the said Edward and William and Thomas Hewell and Humphrey Orlens. Then follows an erasure concerning an annuity to his daughter Elizabeth.
Recites settlement of the manor of Battlesden, 16 messuages, 340 acres of arable, 100 acres meadow, 70 acres pasture in Battlesden, Milton Brian and Hockliff, on the marriage of the said Edward Duncombe to Ann Bonham, widow; trustees Henry Puby of the Middle Temple, and Thomas Bancrofte of London; 22 June 1630;
Recites also a conveyance of 26 June 1631 between 1) Edward and William, 2) Henry Puby and Thomas Bancrofte, 3) Henry (referred to later as Peter) Osborn and George Duncombe, of the manor of Battlesden, to the use of Edward for life, and after to the use of William and his heirs male by his wife Elizabeth.
Other conditions deleted. Edward died in 1638, and William is his son and heir. Notes have been added in a contemporary hand by Nicholas Cholmeley
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