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(i) George Draper, late Hitchin, Hertfordshire, now Ickleford, Hertfordshire, gentleman
(ii) Sir George Warburton
(iii) Thomas Warburton
Periam Docwra, Hexton, Hertfordshire, gentleman, son & heir of St. John Docwra, late Hexton, Esquire, deceased
(iv) Ralph Radcliffe
[reciting: Conveyance (Lease & Release) 8/9 Aug 1705
(i) Thomas Docwra
(ii) John Coppin, Esquire
John Stone, Putteridge, clerk (deceased)
George Draper
to (ii) in trust to use of (i) for life, then in trust to sell and pay £1000 & interest as agreed in
[settlement 13 May 1686
(i) Thomas & Launcelot Docwra
(ii) St. John Docwra & wife Elizabeth
(iii) Paul Bowes, Esquire
Edward Taverner
John Abingdon, gentleman
Newdigate Pointz, Esquire
Thomas Cheyne, gentleman
John Stone]
and £1000 and interest to Sir George Warburton (i.e. £1,000 and interest on mortgage of premises
by Thomas Docwra to Sir George Warburton)
surplus to uses as directed by (i)
--- messuage called Flints, Pirton, Hertfordshire, and other property in Pirton as H/DE31-32
reciting: deed poll concerning only Kings Holmes and Lambs Mead, Ickleford, revoking the uses and trusts above.
reciting: Thomas Docwra is since deceased
reciting: Decree in Chancery 11 Jun 1711 in Cheyne et al., creditors of Thomas Docwra v. George Warburton,
Thomas Warburton, Dorothy Docwra, widow, Launcelot Docwra, executors of Thomas Docwra,
Elizabeth Docwra, widow, Periam Docwra & Martha Docwra, infants, by their guardians Catherine Stone
& Dorothy Stone, and John Coppin & George Draper et al., defendants,
ordering Coppin to convey all title and interest in the trust premises to Draper, and ordering the
messuage & lands etc., comprised in 8/9 Aug 1705 recited above to be sold, and that the term of 500 years
in the Manor of Pirton and other messuages and lands etc., Pirton, vested in Coppin & Draper should also
be sold, and report ordered on the lands of Thomas Docwra not comprised in the trust or in the marriage
settlement of Sir George Warburton, all such property to be sold if necessary to pay debts.
These premises were: Mansion house, tithes and lands at Ridgmont, and the meadows in Ickleford which
on the death of Thomas Docwra came to Sir George Warburton as his grandson & heir and by H/DE86-87
were conveyed to Thomas Warburton.
reciting: offer by Ralph Radcliffe of £6,700 for the trust estate, the Bedfordshire lands and the lands at
Ickleford; and confirmation of purchase in Chancery 11 Mar 1725/6.
reciting: 4 Jul 1726, John Coppin released to George Draper his rights in the trust estate.]
(ii) and Thomas Warburton, & (i) at direction of (ii) and Thomas Warburton to (iv)
--- all property comprised in conveyance of 8/9 Aug 1705 (except Ickleford meadows)
(ii) and Thomas Warburton to (iv)
--- Ridgmont property as H/DE31-32
--- Ickleford property as H/DE31-32
[reciting H/DE88 and fine of Pirton and Ickleford property levied Michaelmas 1726 by Sir George &
Thomas Warburton and Periam Docwra to Ralph Radcliffe and Recovery same term]
subject to: rent charges of 1/6 per annum Pirton
£9, Kingsholme & Lambs mead to the vicar of Hitchin
£1..10s..0d from Ridgmont to Duke of Bedford
£2..13s..4d from tithes of Brogborough to vicar of Ridgmont
witnesses. Henry Wood, Purefoy Hunton, Thomas Hawkins.
20/21 Feb 1726/7