Scope and Content
(i) Pattee Viscount Torrington, Baron of Southill &
Honorable George Byng (2nd son of late George Viscount Torrington, deceased)
(ii) Margaret Viscountess Dowager Torrington (relict of George Viscount Torrington)
Robert, John, Edward Byng, esquires (younger sons)
(iii) Thomas Corbett of Westminster, esquire &
William Corbett of London, esquire
On the succession of Pattee
Recites W2132, W2135 - W2136
George Viscount Torrington ''afterwards pulled down & demolished the said capital messuage & erected another... on another part of the ... premises'' & purchased other land, & ''was minded & desirous that the said Viscountess Dowager should enjoy the said new erected capital messuage''
Also left 1 daughter Sarah Osborn, widow [of John Osborn]
-- Manors of Gastlings & Hill, capital messuage at Southill
messuages in possession of Thomas Rolfe, Elizabeth King, Martin Haycock, Richard Wells, Thomas Dilly, John Barber, William Pratt
advowson & moiety of rectory of Southill & tithes
manors of West Hay, Faldo in Higham Gobion, 14 acres in Barton fields in the occupation of John Myhurst
Brays farm in Barton & Higham Gobion, the Gatehouse with close in the occupation of Philip Field
Curtys (Dairy House) in the occupation of Thomas Finch, messuage in the occupation of Mary Allingham, Robert Crawley, Richard Crouch, Richard Ansell
coppice ground called Gagmans Spinney, Darnells Corner, Higgin, Great Stocking Spring, in Barton, Higham Gobion, Pulloxhill, Greenfield, Silsoe, Flitton, Westoning, purchased by George Viscount Torrington from Bernard Halfpenny & others 5 June 1725
As in bundle AA (W1802 - W1821), BB (W1822 - W1838), CC (W1839 - W1842) & DD (W1843 - W1847)
Cottages in the occupation of Edward Benfield, Edward Allen, 3 acres 3 roods in the occupation of John Williamson in Southill, purchased by George Viscount Torrington from John Glenister & others 21, 22 Nov 1728 (cf. bundle AA)
4 pieces meadow in Mackrell Meadow, Biggleswade, in the occupation of William Beaumont & Robert Cooper, purchased by George Viscount Torrington from Anthony Reynolds, 2, 3 Jan 1728/9
58 acres in Clifton fields in the occupation of William Lisle .. from Mary Lee & others 23, 24 Mar 1729/30
messuage & land in Clifton (75 acres) in the occupation of John Pedley .. from John Pedley & wife Katherine, 2, 3 Jan 1730/31
As in bundles FF (W1848 - W1866), GG (W1867 - W1873)
Copyhold at Barton-in-the-Clay : 4 acres meadow & pasture, 11 acres 3 roods arable meadow & pasture, messuage formerly in the occupation of Francis Farmer, barn lately erected in the room of a cottage, 3 closes (8 acres), 6 acres, messuage & malthouse with 2 closes, 6 acres, messuage & malthouse with 46 acres formerly in the occupation of Matthew Denton
to which Pattee was admitted 28 July 1725 on surrender of George Viscount Torrington
messuage, 2 closes in the occupation of Philip Field... 8 Feb. 1730/31 on surrender by Elizabeth Gregory, spinster
(for laying out £8000 for benefit of younger children)
Witnesses. John Ward, Thomas Hawkins, A. Master