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Marriage settlement : £7000 fortune; £1000 added by Pattee [?Release, Lease missing]

[21] 22 May 1724

From: 1724 To: 1724

(i) George Viscount Torrington & wife Margaret, Viscountess Torrington (ii) Pattee Byng, esquire [son & heir apparent : Treasurer of Royal Navy] (iii) Willam Duke of Manchester & Lady Charlotte Montague his sister (iv) Lord Robert Montagu (only brother of Duke of Manchester) & Charles Montagu of Westminster, esquire (v) Sir George Saunders of London, knight (commissioner for victualling M Navy) & Streynsham Masters of Brooke, Kent, esquire On the marriage of Pattee Byng & Lady Charlotte Montagu -- Capital messuage or mansion house wherein George Viscount Torrington now dwells in Southill - Messuage in Hill, Old Warden & closes belonging in the occupation of Thomas Rolfe, yeoman Flatt Meadow & Pighouse pasture (20 acres) part of Castle Meadow (7 acres) Rushy Close (7 acres) Dry Close (4 acres) Long Slip Close (7 acres) Duck Meadow (10 acres) Barn Close (6 acres) The Great Ground (11 acres) Little Bridge Close (5 acres) Whites Meadow (4 acres) Gregory's Close (24 acres) arable Great Richfords close (15 acres arable) Little Richfords close (11 acres) Linchills (30 acres) rent £225 Meadow in Southill, late in the occupation of Thomas Rolfe, now George Viscount Torrington - £75 per annum valuation - Messuage with dovehouse etc., in Hill & closes formerly in the occupation of John Beamont Closes of arable, 10 acres, 12 acres, 14, 13, 12, 8, 24 acres Pasture - Home Close (4 acres) Meadow 3 acres (near the yard) Cow Pasture (8 acres) Inn Close (6 acres) Great or Low Meadow (14 acres) Meadow Close (5 acres) orchard & yard (3 acres), 'the sd. 6 clos.' being the old sward ground belonging to ... the said messuage Pasture closes 4 acres 2 roods, 3 acres 2 roods, 3 acres 2 roods, 8 acres, 5 acres in the occupation of Thomas Rolfe, £110 per annum - Farm house in Hill formerly in the occupation of Thomas King, yeoman, now Elizabeth King, widow Pasture close adjoining (Home alias Wheathouse close - 5 acres) Spring close (5 acres) Astons close (6 acres) Marsh close (6 acres) Windmill Close lying next Caldecot field (12 acres) Thompkins Close adjoining & adjoining Barbers field (11 acres) Great Ashtons Close (14 acres) Pond Close next Hill Lane (2 acres) 2 meadow closes (6 acres) Oake close (Pasture, 5 acres) Arable closes - Lower Claypits field (20 acres) Taylors field (5 acres), lately converted to tillage Upper Claypitts field (20 acres) Close next Broom field (26 acres) the Four Acres the Eleven Acres (converted to tillage by Thomas King) Barbers field (32 acres) the 2 pightles (5 acres) lately converted to tillage Rent £130 - Messuage & mill house, 5 water grist mills under one covert (Shefford Mills) in Southill, with mill pools, dams, banks, waters & going geer belonging Closes - the First Meadow (4 acres) Ibbotts (2 acres 2 roods 11 perches) Mill Holme (2 acres 1 rood) 2 arable closes next Shefford (10 acres) 1 arable close next Stanford now fallow (8 acres 2 roods 7 perches) formerly in the occupation of Joseph Franklyn, miller, now Martin Haycock miller, rent £66..16s..6d - Messuage in Southill formerly in the occupation of Josiah Lovelidge, now Richard Wells, yeoman Meadow closes - East (5 acres) Home (3 acres) Westbrooke (30 acres) Parcels of arable in open fields of Southill - 181 acres :- 49 acres in Westbrooke Church field, Little field & ''the England where the great pond is'' 54 acres in Blackland field & the 2 lower England fields 40 acres in Stanford field 3 acres in farthing piece 7 acres in West End close 15 acres in uppermost England field 2 acres of midsomer sward in Ketswell 3 acres of midsomer sward in Little field 3 acres of midsomer sward in Broom Meadow 3 acres Lamas sward in Lamas Meadow 2 acres Lamas sward in Bakers pightle with the sheepwalks etc., Rent £100 per annum - Capital messuage called Graces in Southill, formerly in the occupation of Bridgett Mann Messuage & close formerly in the occupation of Lucy Finch, widow, since Nicholas Purser & Nicholas Pratt, now in the occupation of Thomas Dilly - rent £100 Messuage in Southill formerly in the occupation of John Barber, yeoman & his father, deceased, now John Barber Dovehouse close (3 acres) the Gravel close (3 acres) Parcels in open fields of Southill - 160 1/2 acres ;- 53 acres in Westbrook & Church fields 48 acres in Stanford field season 53 acres in Blackland season 2 slips of midsomer sward in Little Field (1 acre) 1 acre in Lamas meadow 3 acres of Lamas sward in North Meadow sheepwalks etc., Rent £81 - Farmhouse in Southill formerly in the occupation of John Upwood, gentleman, now William Pratt junior the Home close (2 acres) Little Broom Close (1 acre) Parcels in fields of Southill :- 44 acres 3 roods 12 acres in Church field 4 acres 1 rood in Little field 1 acre 2 roods in Broom field 15 acres in Blackland season 12 acres in Stanford field season sheepwalk etc., Rent £22 & other property of George Viscount Torrington in Southill, Hill, Warden, Old Warden, Shefford, Clifton To secure annuity of £700 in event of widowhood [Total rents £734..16s..6d] Total value of property £810 per annum Capital mansion at Southill - to secure £400 annuity to Margaret, wife of George Viscount Torrington in event of widowhood The £8000 to be laid out in purchase of land Witnesses. Anne Montague, Ch[?ristopher] Townesend, Francis Townesend, William Corbett [21], 22 May 1724 Endorsed: 23 May 1724 Cash not paid over : £2000 in capital stock of East India Company £1500 in capital stock of South Sea Company £1500 in capital annuity of South Sea Company £500 in capital Civil List Annuities payable at Bank of England £1000 [Pattee] - £400 in capital stock South Sea Company £600 in annuities South Sea Company £100 in Civil List Annuities Witnesses. William Corbett, Ch[?ristopher] & Fr[ancis] Townesend

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Byng, George (1st Viscount Torrington),
Byng, Margaret,
Byng, Pattee,
Montagu, William [2nd Duke of Manchester],
Montagu, Charlotte,
Montagu, Robert,
Montagu, Charles,
Saunders, George,
Masters, Streynsham,
Rolfe, Thomas,
Beamont, John,
King, Thomas,
King, Elizabeth,
Franklyn, Joseph,
Haycock, Martin,
Lovelidge, Josiah,
Wells, Richard,
Mann, Bridgett,
Finch, Lucy,
Purser, Nicholas,
Pratt, Nicholas,
Dilly, Thomas,
Barber, John,
Upwood, John,
Pratt, William

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