• Reference
    W2910-W2911
  • Title
    Conveyance (lease & release): £86
  • Date free text
    26, 27 Sep 1715
  • Production date
    From: 1715 To: 1715
  • Scope and Content
    (i) Elizabeth Ashers of Coventry, widow, sister & heiress of Thomas Ellis of Sandy, gentleman; eldest son William of Coventry, baker; (ii) Thomas Rolfe of Sandy, gentleman -- a farmhouse late in the occupation of Richard Penn, now (blank) Garner, in Hardwick End, Kempston; 3 closes, 10 acres, in Kempston & Elstow; 1 acre meadow called West Mead; 15 acres in the common fields of Elstow & Kempston; -- a messuage in Keysoe Row, Keysoe, abutting East on Pagg Lane, Keysoe Row, North, land of Thomas Folbigg, West; 13 1/2 acres in Keysoe Row Stocking, abutting West on land late Edward Rolt, North on Keysoe Row, South on land late of Oliver, Earl Bolingbroke; 3 acres (8 selions) in Row Field on Bury Hill, adjoining land late John Bullock, abutting East on Long Lane; 1 acre (4 selions) in Popwell Field, abutting West on Walter Bennett's close; 1/2 acre meadow in Hills meadow; purchased by Thomas Ellis of Jane Oldham & son John; -- 4 acres in the common fields of Keysoe, late in the occupation of John Bassett; formerly belonging to Robert Sutton; purchased by Thomas Ellis of Edward Sutton of Northill, yeoman, deceased; -- 3 acres in the common fields of Keysoe, late in the occupation of Joseph Northfield; in Church Field 2 selions abutting West on Church had way (sic), East on Mill headway; in Great Evescroft 2 selions, abutting East on Jennett lane, West on Bonhurst croft, North on land formerly belonging to a house in the Row called the White House, and on the highway leading to Towles corner; in Stocking Field 3 selions, abutting North on the Row street, South on Pator's close; purchased by Thomas Ellis of Alice Croote, spinster; -- 4 acres (15 selions, headland and balk), and 2 selions (1 acre) in Church Field on Holden Hill furlong abutting South on Holdenway; purchased by Thomas Ellis of Thomas Hawkins, yeoman, & wife Elizabeth; -- 4 1/2 acres in the common fields of Keysoe; in Row Field abutting South & West on Long Lane; in Lownde Field; late in the occupation of Isaac Clark, yeoman; purchased by Thomas Ellis of Isaac Clark & wife Mary; all now in the occupation of Thomas Barber; owners & occupiers adjoining (Keysoe): also Henry Richards, John Hall, John Nuter, William Hills, Sandy town, Edmund Peacock, Thomas Hawkins, yeoman, Mr. Scivens, late Henry Day; witnesses. William Banes, Robert Whitfield, William Rozell, Samuel Luke 26, 27 Sep 1715 endorsed: "Kempston estate is put in, but that was given to Mrs. Rolfe in fee by Mr. Ellis' will, and therefore 'tis only a confirmation of the devise"
  • Level of description
    item