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RefNoKCON/3/1/A/51
AltRefNoCON 3/1/3/16
TitleLease (counterpart)
Description1. John Cotton, Esq. 2. Charles Darlow, Huntingdon, gent and Joseph Oliver, St. Neots, butcher. 1. to 2. Messuages with outhouses, pasture called Rowledge (16 acres); Hams Close (19 acres); Hams Meadow (8 acres); The Lane Close (3 acres); Horse Close (5 acres); Great Spinny Field (60 acres); Tee Meadow (35 acres); Little Spinny Fields (36a.1r.10p); Gilberts Spinny Field (34 acres); All in Connington and in occupation of Darlow. Dwelling-house with Home Close and 50 acres of fen ground in Connington in occupation of Matthew Bishop with all apps. Except reserved to 1. all timber and hedges, 2 to plash hedges. For 18 years at £213.19s. p.a. and £10 p.a. for every acre ploughed other than those normally ploughed. Power of distraint to 1. 2. to pay poor-rate and highway rate to parish for all land. And those and Churchwardens and Constables accounts for Bishop's dwelling-house and Home Close and 50 acres fen. 2. to do repairs, 1. providing timber. 2. to do hedging and ditching and to cut 10 acres of mole and ant-hills p.a., until all be cut, except those in Great Spinny fields. 2. to spread all dung, 1. to provide timber for repairs. 1. to pay Constables and Churchwardens accounts except for named premises. 2. to promise 1. that they will demise to Mathew Bishop the house he dwells in and Home Close during the term at and under £2 per annum rent. 1. signs by Robt. Pulleyn Esq. his attorney. Endorsed: query whether Long Spinny Field and Least Spinny Field are now in one ground and amount to 34 acres.
Date21 March, 1736
CreatorNameHeathcote family of Conington Castle
RepositoryHuntingdonshire Archives

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F/0003Cotton; family; of Madingley Hall and Landwade; Baronets Cotton1423-1871
P/0020Cotton; Sir; John (d.1752); 6th Baronet; of Coningtond.1752
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