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(i) George Viscount Torrington
(ii) Honorable John Byng
(iii) William Daniel
(iv) James Harris, esquire (a Lord Commissioner of Treasury)
Recites W2141 - W2144
-- Manors of West Hay & Faldo etc., as before,
& other land in Barton : -
- Brays farm & closes : 12 acres adjoining, 60 acres 2 roods in common fields :-
Hocrofts (2 closes - 16 acres)
8 acres in common fields
50 acres purchased of William Brazier called Berrydole
the Gate House & close
3 acres formerly belonging to (i)
formerly in the occupation of Philip Field rent £75..5s
- Messuage with 3 closes (8 acres) & 6 acres 1 rood in Barton fields;
2 acres in Great Field, 1 acre in Redworth;
1 acre 1 rood in Dunstable field
formerly in the occupation of Richard Crouch rent £13
- Messuage & close (1 acre 2 roods), 5 acres land in Sharpenhoe Field
2 acres in Barton field (Stocking)
1 acre 2 roods in Hay Pond field
formely in the occupation of Richard Ansell rent £8.10
- Coppice ground - parcels called Gagmans Spinney, Darnells Corner, Higgins & Great Stocking Spring (9 acres 6 perches)
formely in the occupation of Sarah Halfpenny
being in Barton, Higham Gobion, Pulloxhill, Greenfield, Harlington, Silsoe, Flitton, Westoning
in several tenures of William Beale, William Long, Thomas Finch, Ashton Field, William Burgis, Thomas Bosworth, John Dicks, William Long
- Messuage & millhouse & 5 water grist mills called Shefford Mills in Southill
meadow close called the First Meadow (4 acres)
meadow close called Abbotts (2 acres 2 roods 11 perches)
meadow close called the Mill Holme (2 acres 1 rood)
2 arable closes next Shefford (10 acres)
1 arable close next Stanford (8 acres 2 roods) heretofore lying fallow
formerly in the occupation of Thomas Squire, miller, John Franklyn, miller, afterwards Martin Haycock, miller
- Messuage in Clifton & closes : -
Bakerswick (8 acres)
Sallow Bush Close (8 acres)
80 acres in common fields of Clifton
formerly in the occupation of Michael Sheffield, afterwards John Whitbread
- Messuage formerly in the occupation of John. Ravens
20 acres in common fields of Clifton
Berry Mead (16 acres)
the Twelve Acres (2 closes)
3 1/2 acres, part of Berry Close
formerly in the occupation of Paul Fletcher
Long Close (8 acres)
part of meadow called Chapell Mead alias Scroops Mead (10 1/2 acres)
30 acres arable in Clifton fields
formerly in the occupation of Samuel Hills
- other part of Chappell alias Scroops Mead (10 1/2 acres)
Flagg Meadow (2 acres)
7 more acres in Berry Close
formerly in the occupation of Richard Jeggle
- Messuage & close formerly in the occupation of Richard Dilly
close adjoining (8 acres)
Hinlow close (10 acres)
formerly in the occupation of Walter Rolt
- Messuage & close (2 1/2 acres) in the occupation of George Taylor
Messuage & close (3 acres) in the occupation of John Etheridge
Greenhills close (6 acres) formerly in the occupation of Walter Rolt
Greenhills meadow (8 acres) formerly in the occupation of John Sneisley
Round meadow (3 acres) formerly in the occupation of Nicholas Haggis
- Capital messuage & parcels of meadow in the occupation of William Woodfield
being in Clifton, Meppershall, Nether & Over Standen, Shefford, Millbrook, Stanford, Dunton
- 8 1/2 acres, 4 acres, in Clifton fields, formerly in the occupation of John Matthews
58 acres in Clifton fields formerly the estate of Mary Lee & others
in the occupation of William Lisles
- Messuage & dovehouse in Clifton
2 acre close adjoining orchard (2 acres), 3 1/2 acre close,
75 acres in Clifton, formerly the estate of John Pedley
being in same parishes, in the occupations of Samuel Neal, Sarah Lisles, William Godfrey, William Cook, Sarah Dear & Sarah Hawkins.
Witnesses. Edward Dickinson, Morris Robinson