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W2141
Title
Settlement, on succession of George, 2nd son of 1st Viscount Torrington, to the title
Date free text
1 Aug 1747
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From: 1736 To: 1767
Scope and Content
(i) George, 3rd Viscount Torrington & wife Lady Elizabeth, Viscountess Torrington (ii) Sir Danvers Osborne of Chicksand, baronet & William Daniel of Inner Temple, esquire George Byng (brother of Pattee) now Viscount Torrington & wife Elizabeth (formerly Daniel) & sons George & John Recites : Settlements W2135, W2137, W2139-W2140 9 Aug 1736 : Marriage articles : i. Honorable George Byng ii. Richard Master of Yotes Kent. iii. Elizabeth Daniel, spinster. Portion £5000 (£1000 to George Byng for private use, £4000 to trustees - £2000 for house in trust, £2000 to provide £50 exclusive income for Elizabeth & restnusual trusts) £600 annuity for Elizabeth : £5000 portions for younger children Also recites the following purchases made with the £8000 trust money : - 18 June 1652 (as in W2139-W2140) 22, 23 Nov 1741 (as in W2139-W2140) 4, 5 Apr 1733 (as in W2139-W2140) W1833 12, 13 Mar 1734/5 (as in W2139-W2140) -- Gastlings farm in Southill & closes belonging, in the occupation of John Ringsted : - (see also W1387) Farney close & Green Yard (15 acres) Embley field (23 acres) Rush Meadows (8 acres) New Close (8 acres) Longbottom (12 acres) parcel of Midsummer Meadow called Green Croft (10 acres) Long Meadow (2 closes - 7 acres) Seales (12 acres) the Warren Ground (20 acres) the Broom Warren (35 acres) Broom Close (8 acres) the Eleven Acres the Twelve Acres the Five Acres 6 acres in common fields the Chaldron Hill (18 acres) Pond field (20 acres) the Cow Pasture (25 acres) West End Close (8 acres) - 2 cottages in the occupation of widow Badford, widow Jackson & William Brown (undertenants of John Ringsted) Rent £140 -- Copley's Farm in Southill & :- close of 12 acres 8 acres 1 rood meadow in Broom meadow 7 acres inclosed arable arable in Southill fields 40 acres 1 rood in Church field 39 acres 3 roods in Blackland 40 acres 2 roods in Stamford field in the occupation of Thomas Dilly rent £78 -- Manors of West Hay & Faldoe in Higham Gobion, capital messuage called Faldoe House Closes called Grove Close, Drys, 2 Hemplands, Long Piece, Short Piece, Long Lands & Woods Close (73 acres) 14 acres in fields of Barton in the occupation of John Myhurst late John Mears rent £100 -- Messuage or Dairy House & closes : - Little Stocking (6 acres) Great Stocking (11 acres) the Higgins (5 acres) the Eight Acres the Hither Common (10 acres) the Further Common (11 acres) the Mead (3 acres) formerly in the occupation of Mary Allingham, widow, afterwards --- Osborne, now Peter Burgis rent £63 -- Messuage or Dairy House & closes : - Branking (55 acres) Collops (5 acres) Rings (3 acres) Gore Hedges Close (3 acres) the Long Close & Outlays (2 acres) Gyles Close (2 acres) Little Bredin Close (5 acres) Gagmans Close (2 acres) Jordens Close (4 acres) formerly in the occupation of Robert Lemon, now Thomas Collier rent £75 -- Dairy House called Curfys & closes : - Peasly Mead (15 acres) Tunn Mead (5 acres) Lower Town field (31 acres, of which 12 acres are arable) Lakes Lays (5 acres) the Upper Pasture (14 acres) in the occupation of Thomas Finch rent £70 -- Dairy House & closes : - New Mead (22 acres) Howells Lays (13 acres) Little Peasly (5 acres) late in the occupation William Crawley now Thomas Bosworth rent £47 -- Pedleys farm in Clifton in the occupation William Lyles & closes : - close adjoining with dovehouse (4 acres) Butts (1 acre) Meadow in Stanford Holme (5 acres 9 perches) 25 perches meadow in Brook furlong meadow 2 roods meadow in Hilliford 7 1/2 acres meadow in Green knoles -- 111 acres arable in Hoe field, East, Little, Shefford & Hitchin fields : - 13 acres 31/2 roods in Hoe 36 acres 1 1/2 roods in Shefford 21 acres in East 35 acres 3 roods in Hitchin fields 6 acres in Little in the occupation of William Lyles rent £68 -- Mathews farm in Clifton in the occupation of Abraham Whiston, closes : - Bakerswicke (8 acres) Great Green Hills (5 acres) Little Green Hills (3 acres) 3 perches of Lammas sward in Start Meadow 13 perches of same in Brook Meadow (3 acres 2 roods together) 158 acres in common fields of Clifton, in the occupation of Abraham Whiston rent £80 -- Berry farm or the Lees Farm, Clifton, in the occupation of Samuel Neal & closes : - Bilberry House Close (10 acres) adjoining on East the Home Close (4 acres) adjoining on West Spencers Mead (2 acres) at North end of Berry close Flagg Meadow (3 acres) Berry Meadow (16 acres) Chappell Meadow (15 acres) Hay Close (8 acres) Bilberry House Close (8 acres) (sic) close adjoining (6 acres) Henlow Close in Hitchin Field (8 acres) Sallow Bush Close in Shefford field in Clifton (7 acres) rent £100 the above held by William Lyles, Abraham Whiston & Samuel Neal, being in Clifton, Meppershall, Nether Stonden, Over Stonden, Shefford, Millbrook, Stamford & Dunton -- Messuage in Cotton End, Cardington & 15 closes (73 acres together), formerly in the occupation of Thomas Bigrave now Richard Bigrave rent £40 - Tithes Subject to rent charges of £400 & £100 to Margaret, Lady Torrington & for Charlotte, Viscountess Dowager & to small rent charges on 6 of the farms To raise £5000 for younger children Witnesses. Edward Dickinson, John Ringsted 1 Aug 1747 Endorsed : 19 June 1765 : i. William Daniel & Honorable John Byng (only brother of George Viscount Torrington) ii. George Viscount Torrington (eldest son & heir of George Viscount Torrington) iii. John Hewitt Hagar. Recites Recovery & settlement 1762. Part of property discharged of trusts (in Hill, Old Warden) Witnesses. John Dax, John Allwood 25 June 1764 : Land in Cardington conveyed to John Nesbitt released from trusts Reciting 9 Mar. 1767 : i. Honorable John Byng. ii. Arthur Forrest & Bridget Forrest, spinster, eldest daughter. iii. George, now Viscount Torrington. iv. William Daniel. v. Edmund Earl of Cork & John Loveday junior £3000 (part of the £5000) settled
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