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i) Laurence Smyth, Islip, clerk (only brother and heir of Hugh Smyth, late of Sharpenhoe, Streatley, gentleman, deceased, who was brother of James Smyth, who died under age, which said James was eldest son of James Smyth, gentleman, and wife Penelope, and which said James was eldest son of Hugh Smyth, and wife Alice, and which said Hugh was eldest son of James Smyth of B[r]oughton, Buckinghamshire, gentleman, and wife Elizabeth
ii) John Duncombe, Furnivalls Inn, London, gentleman
iii) Thomas Duncombe, London, jeweller
i) conveys to ii) to make him tenant to the freehold against whom a recovery may be suffered before Easter Term next, by i)
... Manor of Sharpenhoe
... Bury House in Sharpenhoe
... barns, buildings, orchards, motes, ponds etc.
... Pinfold Close and Mudwall Close (meadow)
... Well Close
... Kitchin Closes, now one close called Kitchin Close
... 3 closes lying about Mote
... Oles Croft otherwise Eeeles Croft
... Corn Close
... Heyles Mead or Heyley Mead, with High Croft
... Little Munt Meadow and Great Munt (arable) with spring or hedgerow of wood
... Deans Close, Gosse Close
... 169 acres arable in Sharpenhoe common fields beneath the hills, whereof Further Hasewell is parcel
... 80 acres arable above the hills
... 14 acres arable once let by Robert Norton, gentleman, deceased, to Matthew Denton
... Hither Hasewell (meadow)
... Heydon's Baulks, Hedge Green Hills, Hill Ground and waste once of James Smyth and wife Elizabeth and son Hugh, now of i) in common fields
all which were part of Manor of Sharpenhoe and in the Town Fields Limits of Streatley and Sharpenhoe
... a messuage called Adams Lands, in Sharpenhoe and Streatley
... close pasture called Chappell Pightle with lane leading thereunto
... the Abbotts Land, late part of possessions of Abbey of Wooburne, etc.
... all lands, woods, profits etc. belonging to said Manor, situated in Streatley, Sharpenhoe, Sondon [sic], Harlington and Barton
... tithes of corn, grain and all other kinds of tithes belonging to the Church of Streatley arising in Sharpenhoe
... lands, tenements etc. upon, above or beneath the hills in Streatley
whereof William Norton, gentleman, Richard Allwey and Robert Norton, gentleman, did take the tithes of corn and grain, and upon all other lands of said James Smyth and wife Elizabeth and son Hugh, and now of i) upon, above or beneath the hills in Streatley, once in occupation of James Smyth and wife Elizabeth and son Hugh and heretofore in occupation of Robert Norton, or of William James, Offley, Hertfordshire, esquire, (86 acres) in common fields above the hills, and all other kinds of corn and grain which were sold by George Barber alias Grigg, and Richard Barber alias Grigg, son of said George, to Luke Norton, esquire and wife Lettice and Graveley Norton esquire, once owners of the premises
signatures of all
endorsed witnesses: James Smyth of Streatley, Samuel Luke, Thomas Brookbank 28 Apr 1750
enrolled in Common Pleas Easter 23 George II [?1750]