W2547-W2548

Conveyance (lease & release): £21,200

2, 3 Nov 1810

From: 1764 To: 1810

(i) Reverend James Ord of Leicestershire, clerk (devisee of Frances Byrd, late of Middlesex, widow, and also devisee of Dorothy Elizabeth Pickering, spinster - the 2 sisters & coheirs of Sir Edward Pickering); (ii) Joseph Ashby Partridge of Middlesex, esquire -- the manor of Shefford Hardwick 330 acres formerly in the occupation of Nathaniel Taylor the church or free chapel of Hardwick, now dilapidated the tithes coney warren of 120 acres in Southill 40-acre piece an arable close formerly in the occupation of William Davis, purchased of him by Frances Byrd, adjoining Rowney marsh, 30 acres, also formerly in the occupation of Nathaniel Taylor 23 acres in Clifton Bridge Field, Stanford, bounds as in enclosure award, allotted to James Ord all now in the occupation of Thomas Inskip under lease expiring 1811, rent £280 now better known as follows:- at Great Hardwick:- Little Balds wood, 3 roods; Great Balds wood, 6 acres; wood at top of Round hill, 2 roods; the 20 acre wood, 2 roods; Collins grove, 3 acres; wood by Southill way, 1 acre; Great Coitshut (?) grove, 1 acre; Mill spring, 1 acre; farmyard, house, barns & garden, 3 acres; Dovehouse close, 1 acre; Old Orchard, 1 acre; Alder bed, 6 acres; Rushey meadow, 15 acres; Fearn close, 5 acres; Grass yard, 8 acres; Shefford warren, 13 acres; Great Meadow, 8 acres; Little Meadow, 3 acres; Furze close, 8 acres; Middle Field, 58 acres; Hanger Hill, 14 acres; Tilers Field, 36 acres; The Twenty Acres, 24 acres; the Sixteen Acres, 22 acres; Shefford Field, 58 acres; Clay Pit Hill, 16 acres; in all 341 acres; at Southill:- Smith close, 27 acres; pightle, 3 acres; small plots of meadow at Little Hardwick and by Shefford bridge and adjoining the Swan public-house at Shefford; a field known as New Allotment in Stanford near Shefford town, 23 acres; recites:- 21 Jun 1764 will of Frances Byrd 25 Oct 1765 will of Elizabeth Pickering dower of Barbara, wife of James Ord, barred; witnesses. P.A. Adams, John Adams

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Ord, James,
Byrd, Frances,
Pickering, Frances,
Pickering, Dorothy Elizabeth,
Pickering, Edward,
Partridge, Joseph Ashby,
Taylor, Nathaniel,
Davis, William,
Inskip, Thomas,
Ord, Barbara

clergy, Leicestershire, clerk, Middlesex, Shefford Hardwick Manor, SHEFFORD HARDWICK, Shefford fields, churches, tithes, warrens, SOUTHILL, arable, Southill fields, Stanford, non-agricultural leases, rentals, woods, farms, HOUSING, agricultural buildings, gardens, wills, dower