• Reference
    X197/1
  • Title
    Covenant to levy a fine
  • Date free text
    3 February 1723/4
  • Production date
    From: 1723 To: 1724
  • Scope and Content
    ( i ) Nathaniel Bardolph of Bedford, innkeeper, and wife Mary; William Leaver of Aylesbury, innkeeper, and wife Elizabeth; John White of Kempston, yeoman and wife Mary; ( ii ) Samuel Fenn of Bedford, hatter and maltster; Thomas Vincent of Bedford, grocer. -- a cottage in High Street, Bedford, in St Paul's parish, occupied by Peter Haslewood, draper; abutting West on High Street, East on a yard, North on a messuage occupied by Christoper Rush, South on Widow Bedford's cottage; a cottage in the yard of the first -mentioned cottage, occupied by Mary Smith, widow; both of which were devised by Robert Bamford, clerk, deceased, to Mary, wife of Nathaniel Bardolph, and to William and Mary Newman, son and daughter of William Newman late of Bedford, grocer and wife Elizabeth; the Bull Inn on the West side of High Street, occupied by Andrew King; abutting South on a messuage occupied by Alderman Thomas Day, North on a messuage occupied by Nataniel Bardolph; a cottage occupied by Alderman Thomas Day; devised by Robert Bamford to Elizabeth, wife of William Leaver and Dorothy, wife of William Bedford of Royston, gentleman; a cottage in Kempston Up End, with pightle (2 acres) of pasture adjoining, between the cottage of Thomas Barrington and the close of John Pearson, and abutting North West on the common green and highway; occupied by John Squire; Witnesses: John Pearle, Samuel Massey, William Ball
  • Level of description
    item