Scope and Content
i) Richard Norton, Mitcham, Surrey, esquire, and wife Ann
iia) Henry Hampson, Mitcham, esquire
iib) Thomas Tanner, London, gentleman
Post-nuptial Settlement after marriage of Richard Norton and wife Ann, the daughter of Henry Hampson, and in consideration of her marriage portion of £2000, in performance of an agreement made before the marriage
Release of Conveyance by Lease and Release, by i) to ii) to uses of
... manor of Barton, Bedfordshire, and all farms, messuages, cottages, mills, dovehouses, buildings, lands, meadows, etc., tithes great and small, glebe lands, suit of mill, moulture, fishings, herriots, courts leet, courts baron etc.
which were heretofore conveyed by the late King to Edward Ditchfeild, John Highlord and others by letters patent dated 14 June 4 Charles I 1628, and then conveyed to Thomas Thimelby and his heirs, and by him conveyed to Richard Norton, esquire, senior, deceased;
... the capital messuage or mansion house where Thomas Rotheram, gentleman, lately dwelt, called Stockwood alias Whiperly in the parish of Luton, with appurtenances
... closes and arable fields and woodgrounds in parish of Luton called Newlands, Woodfeilds, Pond close, Stock wood close, the Woodyard, the Slipp and the Highwood with appurtenances
which were late the freehold inheritance of George Rotheram, esquire, and George Rotheram, his eldest son, and of Thomas Rotheram, a younger son;
... a messuage or tenement called Clarkes in Sharpenhoe and Streatley
... a messuage or tenement with appurtenances called Peacocks in Sharpenhoe and Streatley, and in Sondon, Samsill, and Harlington
heretofore the freehold inheritance of William Norton, esquire, William Norton, his son, or one of them;
... 2 closes of meadow or pasture, heretofore parcel of a meadow called the Great Meads, on the east side of a lane leading from Sharpenhoe to Grange Mill
... close of pasture called Bushy Hay Leyes divided into 4 closes adjoining the aforesaid 2 closes of meadow, and containing in all 48 acres, heretofore part of Pulloxhill or Harlington Grange in Streatley, with a lane containing 2 acres leading from Sharpenhoe to the said mill
late the freehold inheritance of Gravely Norton, esquire
... messuage or tenement with an orchard and 2 closes adjoining, one close of pasture called Wood Close, and 44 acres arable belonging to it
... a cottage with appurtenances in Streatley and Sharpenhoe and Sondon
late the inheritance of Roger Wingate;
... grove, wood and woodground in Streatley called Georges Wood containing 12 acres
late the freehold inheritance of Lettice Cheyney
... close of pasture called Samsill close at Samsill in Westoning, containing by estimation 10s [?acres]
late in the possession of William Whitebread and Roger Cinder
to hold to the use of Richard Norton for life, then to use of Ann Norton for life for her jointure, then to use of any person Richard Norton shall appoint by deed or by will, in default of such deed, to the use of the right heirs of Richard Norton
witnesses: Robert Blackburn, John Ayers, Samuel Skinner