W2361

Lease for 99 years: competent sum or for life + 10 of Lady Dorothy Wharton & John Gascoigne, esquire, now, 'one of Mr. Sutton's Hospitall'

12 Jun 1616

From: 1616 To: 1616

(i) William Plomer of Hill, Bedfordshire, esquire (ii) Sir Arthur Savage of Tattenhoe, Buckinghamshire, knight Richard Ironsyde, citizen & leatherseller, London ) trustees for above & Richard Millard, citizen & goldsmith, London ) for Sarah Smythe, widow of George -- manor of Hill & closes in Hill Warden and Old Warden called Aston closes; messuages etc., view of frankpledge etc., 'in as large & ample manner as Henry, Lord Mordaunt, and Lewis, late Lord Mordaunt, had' -- mansion and chief house called Hill House or Hill Hall house; the close on the South part of said house called the great house; 24 acres 2 other closes lying together called the deyrie close and Shepparde close; (27 acres) a close next the field called North Field called Fisher's close (12 acres) a close called the Greene (25 acres) a close called the New close (30 acres) the closes of pasture lying together next to the river called Eylande brooke (222 acres) a grove at Astons closes called Coxes (1 1/2 acres) a meadow called Shortmeade 'lying upon divers parcells' (22 acres) those two pieces of meadow called the Holmes (2 1/2 acres) all in the parishes of Warden Hill & Biggleswade; -- 2 messuages in Hill with appurtenances, in the occupation of Dunstan Laspetche and Thomas Millward, and arable land in occupation with them, 'not being coppiholde nor holden of the King's majestie by lease' (300 acres) 43 acres meadow, 40 1/2 acres pasture, belonging to said messuages in Hill Aston and Warden -- 1 other messuage with appurtenances in Hill in the occupation of Luke Deacon with croft adjoining (3 roods) 1 little close called Aston Little close (3 roods) belonging to said messuage -- 1 messuage with appurtenances in Warden near Warden Warren, late occupied by vicar of Warden 33 acres arable in Warden in the occupation of John Marberry, esquire (several parcels) in North Field 38 1/2 acres arable in Warden in South Field in the occupation of John Marberry close called Plomer's close (2 acres) a grove near Bricklands ford (2 acres) a parcel of meadow upon the Brode Brooke (2 acres 1 rood), next Warden parsonage, in the occupation of John Marberry with all other lands not being copyhold or held of king by lease in Warden, Broom and Southill witnesses. Walter Dayrell, George Blundell, Richard Godwin, William Cokayne, Humphrey Fyshe, John Plomer

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Wharton, Lady Dorothy,
Gascoigne, John,
Sutton,
Plomer, William,
Savage, Arthur,
Ironside, Richard,
Millard, Richard,
Smythe, Sarah,
Mordaunt, Henry, 4th Baron,
Mordaunt, Lewis, 3rd Baron,
Lord Mordaunt,
Laspetche, Dunstan,
Millward, Thomas,
Deacon, Luke,
Marberry, John

non-agricultural leases, hospitals, Old Warden Hill, Tattenhoe, citizen of London, leather seller, goldsmith, trustees, Hill Manor, Old Warden fields, HOUSING, Old Warden Hill Hall, Old Warden, BIGGLESWADE, arable, freehold land, Old Warden Aston, Warden Warren, vicar, parsonages, Broom, SOUTHILL