W2480-W2481

Covenant to levy a fine (lease & release) : £1000

25, 26 Mar 1776

From: 1776 To: 1776

(i) Robert Topham of Hitchin, collarmaker (cousin & devisee of John Dear) & wife Elizabeth (ii) William Wright of Stanford, yeoman George Hicks of Shefford, surgeon (trustee for Wright) -- a capital farmhouse & home close, bounded East by Mill lane, North West & part of South by land of Robert Henley Ongley esquire, South by common street; late in the occupation of George Prudden, now Catherine Prudden, widow (cf. W2479) -- 40 acres arable, 5 acres meadow, 1 acre 3 roods; distributed as follows (below); -- a messuage with orchard & close of 1 1/2 acres next the common fields East, North & West, Shefford - Biggleswade road, South, now a public house called the Red Lion; and cottage adjoining in the occupation of John Webb (cf. W2476) -- 10 1/2 acres; (see below) the land and meadow is distributed as follows :- in Stanford Hill Field : on Almond Hill shott, Strangle Stream shott, the Short shott abutting on Sour leys; in Mill Field : in the Upper shott, one of the furzens, in Long Dawson, in the shott abutting on Broom gap, in Broom Field shott, in Short Dawson, in a shott abutting on Broadmead way, in Claysmore Hole shott, in Peck's piece shott; in Little Field : the shott next Claysmore, in Garner furlong, the 'road from Shefford to Southill crossing them', 'half the bushes on the balk', in Wallers furlong; in Southill Field 'road to the gravelpit going over it'; in Clifton Bridge Field : in Honey grove shott, abutting on the Lakes; in Westmead furlong; Norris acre, sometime Tithe Mill acre; Middle shott; Nether Marsh shott; Stonington shott; Fearny furlong; meadow in the meadow called Great Almonds; abuttals :- way leading to Bendish, road to Clifton, Lake haydons, West mead, highway from Southill to Clifton, gravelpit, Naked furlong, road from Stanford to Shefford, Fearney furlong joint, Broadmead highway, Barley Seed pightle, Rushy knowle, Broom Field, the joint way, Claysmore hole, the turnpike road, the old highway, Peck's piece, Robert Topham's orchard belonging to the Red Lion, road to Little Broom, footway to Southill, Ducksworth End, Broom close end, Catch headland, Stanford Bury hedge, Mr. Collier's 7-acre piece; owners & occupiers adjoining :- Reverend Collier, Thomas Fage, Joseph Inskip, Lady Monoux, Mr. Ongley, Viscount Torrington, John Dilley, Mr. Fordham, (blank) Taylor; witnesses. Laurence Times, John Wells

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Topham, Robert,
Dear, John,
Topham, Elizabeth,
Wright, William,
Hicks, George,
Ongley, Robert Henry,
Prudden, George,
Prudden, Catherine,
Webb, John,
Collier,
Fage, Thomas,
Inskip, Joseph,
Lady Monoux,
Viscount Torrington,
Dilley, John,
Fordham,
Taylor

Hitchin, collarmaker, Stanford, yeoman, SHEFFORD, surgeon, trustees, HOUSING, Southill Stanford Manor, Southill farms, Southill fields, Stanford Mill Lane, arable, orchards, Stanford Red Lion, cottages