• Reference
    H/DE3
  • Title
    Letters Patent: Charles II to John Ashburnham, grandson of John Ashburnham, deceased [for another copy see RO1/5]
  • Date free text
    22 Sep 1675
  • Production date
    From: 1646 To: 1675
  • Scope and Content
    reciting: Mortgage £12,912 Letters Patent. 13 Apr 1646 Charles I to John Ashburnham Esquire, one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber, Lettice, Viscountess Falkland (since deceased) Sir Edward Nicholas, Knight, late one of the principal secretaries of state. -- the Great Park, Brockborough alias Brogborough Park and Beckerings Park, parcel of the Honour of Ampthill, with all liberties, franchises and privileges, all deer, and all buildings, woods, underwoods, timber and trees. reciting Grant. 14 Apr 1646. £8912..2s..9d -- in consideration of this debt due to John Ashburnham the parks to go wholeley to him, charged only with the residue of the money due to the other mortgages, as reward for services. reciting: that John Ashburnham paid off the sums due to the other mortgagees and they therefore conveyed their interest to him. reciting: Letters Patent - grant for 40 years recited in H/DE1, and H/DE1 "John Ashburnham, the grandson and heir of John Ashburnham has sought the grant of the reversion and the yearly rents, in pursuance of the grant of 1646" -- grant as above to hold of the King as of the Manor of East Greenwich, Kent, in free and common soccage. and rent of 40/- Seal broken
  • Level of description
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