• Reference
    H/DE338-339
  • Title
    Conveyance (Lease & Release) £373
  • Date free text
    9, 10 Sep 1776
  • Production date
    From: 1776 To: 1776
  • Scope and Content
    (i) Charles Lowndes, Chesham, Buckinghamshire, Esquire John Dashwood King, Halton, Buckinghamshire, Esquire (ii) Thomas Goostrey, Westminster, gentleman & wife Mary (late Mary Ansell, the only surviving sister and heiress of John Ansell, Great Missenden Abbey, Buckinghamshire, esquire, deceased) (iii) William Pym, Hassell Hall, Sandy, Esquire [reciting Lease & Release 13/14 May 1776 (i) Sir Sidney Stafford Smythe, Knight, Chief Baron of Exchequer (ii) Dame Letitia Beauchamp Proctor, St. George Hanover Square, widow of Sir William Beauchamp Proctor, Baronet & K.B., she being one of the daughters and coheirs of Henry Johnson, late Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire, Esquire, deceased, and residual legatee under his will (iii) Edward Bacon, St George Hanover Square, Esquire Robert Palmer, late St. Andrew Holborn, now Bloomsbury, gentleman surviving trustees of marriage settlement of Sir William & Dame Letitia Beachamp Proctor (iv) The Honorable Agneta Yorke, Great Park Street, Middlesex, widow of the Right Honorable Charles Yorke, late Lord Chancellor, another of the daughters & heirs of Henry Johnson (v) The Reverend James Yorke, Bishop of St. Davids, 5th son of Philip, late Earl of Hardwicke Sir Gilbert Heathcote, Northmanton, Rutland, Baronet The Reverend Jeffreys, Rector of Berkhamstead surviving trustees of the marriage settlement of Charles & Agneta Yorke (vi) William Cave, Marylebone, Esquire & wife Henrietta Dorothea, the 3rd daughter of Henry Johnson (vii) James Adair, Soho, Esquire Bigoe Armstrong, Berners Street, Esquire surviving trusteees of marriage settlement of (vi) (viii) Thomas Goostrey & wife Mary (ix) John Seare, Middle Temple, Esquire (x) Elizabeth Ansell, late Missenden Abbey, now Lea, Buckinghamshire, widow of John Ansell, deceased, & devisee under his will (xi) John Chettoe, Chesterton, Cambridgeshire, Esquire, sole executor of the will of late Margaret Chettoe, his late wife, deceased, formerly Margaret Butler, spinster, sole executrix of John Redman, late Berkhamstead, Dr in Physic, deceased (xii) William Wickham, Little Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, Esquire (xiii) Charles Lowndes & John Dashwood King and final concord --- Manor of Ickleford, Hertfordshire, and several freehold messuages, mills, lands & tenements, Ickleford, Hitchin, Pirton, Offley, Norton, Hertfordshire, and Holwell, Shillington, Arlesey, Henlow, Bedfordshire conveyed to (xiii) with consent of (viii) to sell] (i) and (ii) to (iii) --- 38 acres Holwell & Shillington, occupied by tenants of a farm, late of the estate of Heylock Kingsley, now (iii) in the occupation of Edward Taylor @ £12..8s..7 1/2d per annum covenant to produce title deeds 1715-1776 (reference to H/DE336) witnesses. Robert Collet, Wendover Hale, Buckinghamshire, Jo[seph] Baldwin, Fleet Street, William Lowndes, Winslow, Buckinghamshire, Barnard Dickinson, Monks, Wiltshire 9/10 Sep 1776
  • Level of description
    item