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1 - Feoffment of a croft in Newmarket between those of Alfred and Peter de Nep, which the donor held of Simon de Sexton
2 - Feoffment of half messuage in Newmarket towards west which donor held of Martin de Bodekesham.
3 - Feoffment of messuage in Fordham which donor holds from Hospital of SS Peter and Mary Magdalene, Fordham.
4 - Feoffment of ½a¼r in donor's croft [in Fordham, endorsed] on Chippenham Road next to house of Arnulf the dyer (cf 588/T23).
5 - Feoffment of 15a and 1a in Exning which the donor purchased from Lord Walter de Lake and which the donee bought from Walter de Lake's ancestor, with reversion to donee heirs or assigns except to religious houses.
6 - Feoffment of 1a½r in Exning comprising four pieces in Suthfeld.
7 - Feoffment of eastern part of donor's messuage in Newmarket
8 - Feoffment of a messuage in the donor's croft, 1 acre in Scorcecroft, both next to lands of prior of Thetford, 4a½r arable in Estfield, Arinhowefeld and Brakedenerfeld, Exning.
9 - Feoffment in form of indented chirograph of manor of Landwade with homages, services villeinages, etc in free marriage with donor's daughter, Agnes, for service of one knight's fee to chief lords. L
10 - Feoffment of 1½r in Suthfeld, Exning.
11 - Feoffment of 2r in Estfield and Arinhowefeld, Exning.
12 - Feoffment of ½ [?r] in Fordham
13 - Feoffment of ½a arable in Holberwefeld, Exning (cf 588/T27-31).
14 - Feoffment of 1r in Suthfeld, Exning
15 - Feoffment of messuage with trees and buildings in village of Fordham.
16 - Feoffment of messuage with walls in village of Fordham.
17 - Feoffment of 2 crofts with buildings in Exning, one of which was formerly of Adam Skeppe and one which was of Alexander son of Philip Arnold.
18 - Feoffment of 5r arable in Windmelnefeld, Exning abutting lands of Robert de Hastings, the abbot of Battle and Aymer de Valence.
19 - Feoffment of 1r in Westfeld, Exning
20 - Feoffment of 1a1r in Brakedene Field and Suthfeld Magna, Exning.
21 - Letters and attorney to make livery of seisin of ½ acre in Wendmelnefeld, Exning, to John Belamy and John his brother, in accordance of feoffment.
22 - Quitclaim of 3r at Haddiswell in Brakedenefeld, Exning.
23 - Feoffment of ½ acre arable in Fordham Field towards Chippenham near le Blakelond (cf. 588/T4).
24 - Feoffment of 1 acre arable in Anhowefeld, Exning.
25 - Feoffment of messuage called Coleshouse in village of Exning and 46a2r Estfeld, Brakedenefeld [Suthfeld Magna], Suthfeld Parva, Westfeld, Myndemelnefeld and Arnowefeld, with right of one faldage.
26 - Grant of 6s 9¼ d quit rents from various tenements in Exning fields and village.
27 - Feoffment of ½ acre in Holberwefeld, Exning (cf 588/T/13)
28 - Feoffment of ½ acre in Holberwefeld, Exning (cf 588/T/13)
29 - Feoffment of ½ acre in Holberwefeld, Exning (cf 588/T/13)
30 - Feoffment of ½ acre in Holberwefeld, Exning (cf 588/T/13)
31 - Feoffment of ½ acre in Holberwefeld, Exning (cf 588/T/13)
32 - Grant of 1½d annual rent from 3r arable in Harnowefeld in Exning and Landwade.
33 - Feoffment of 1r in Suthfeld, Exning between lands of earl of Pembroke and Adam Garleck.
34 - Feoffment of 1½ r in Suthfeld Minor, Exning, next to land of John Figgord of Twyford, knight.
35 - Lease in form of indented chirograph for 5 years of 1acre in Litlesouthfeld and Brakendenfeld, Exning
36 - Feoffment of 2 acres arable in Suthfeld and Brakedenefeld, Exning.
37 - Feoffment of 6 acres arable lying in one piece in Brakedenefeld, Exning.
38 - Quitclaim of all rights to messuages, lands, meadows, pastures and liberty of one faldage in village and fields of Exning.
39 - Quitclaim of all rights to messuages, lands, meadows, pastures and liberty of one faldage in village and fields of Exning.
40 - Covenant in form of indenture.
41 - Lease in form of indenture for 60 years of a messuage with adjacent croft and pightle with 1acre land in Brakedenefeld in Exning.
42 - Assignment of same (588/T/41): Robert Dowsole of Exning to John Dowsole, chaplain, his brother.
43 - Feoffment in form of indenture of a tenement in Marcatstete, Fordham, and 2acre arable lying dispersedly in Borewellehalys abutting le Fryt and Downefeld, in Fordham and Soham, with covenant by feoffee to make payment of 8 marks by following candlemas.
44 - Quitlaim of same, 588/T/43
45 - Quitclaim pursuant to a feoffment of same to quitclaimee and John Bernard, clerk.
46 - Feoffment of same, 588/T/45
47 - Feoffment in form of indenture of messuage conveyed by saint, with covenant that donors should have re-entry if feoffee fails to aquit donors for the two acres also conveyed by 588/T/46
48 - Feoffment of parcel of manor of Landwade (bounds described in detail).
49 - Feoffment in form of indenture of manor of Landwade with all lands and tenements in Landwade, Burwell, Fordham, Snailwell and Exning except lands conveyed by 588/T47.
50 - Quitclaim of manor of Landwade or any part of it.
51 - Feoffment of all lands formerly of John Fenstede in village and fields of Burwell.
52 - Feoffment of lands as in 588/T51: Nicholas Hwych to Thomas Chevele. Witnesses: John Benett, John Rolfe, William Canford, Thomas Barkere. John Spensere.
53 - Letters of attorney to give seisen of lands as 588/T51: Nicholas Hwych to John Scheldon.
54 - Feoffment of 2 acres arable in Suthfeld and Brakedenefeld, Exning, which were recently Katherine Scot's.
55 - Licence in form of royal letters patent.
56 - Licence in form of royal letters patent.
57 - Feoffment of messuage called Brown's, 150 acres arable, 3 acres meadow and 20s rent with liberty of one faldage in Fordham, Landwade, Isleham, Chippenham ('Chepyngham') and Exning.
58 - Quitclaim of messuage as 588/T/57.
59 - Feoffment of a messuage with adjoining garden in Landwade abutting lands of Walter Cotton on both sides and with Exning and Landwade marsh at head (cf 588/T75).
60 - Feoffment of all lands, messuages, rents and service with meadows, pastures and other rights in village of Landwade and elsewhere in Suffolk, which the donor and William Mercer of [New] Salisbury had by gift of feoffee on 12 April 1405.
61 - Feoffment of same, which the donor and Thomas his brother had by gift of Thomas Nekton, citizen and stock-fishmonger of London.
62 - Mortgage of manor of Landwade with lands, etc (as 588/T/47-49) and messuage called Brounis etc (as 588/T/51-52) to secure 700 marks to be repaid in seven annual instalments of 100 marks in St Gregory's Church, Sudbury.
63 - Receipt on payment of third instalment of mortgage debt contracted by 588/T/62.
64 - Feoffment of 9 acre arable in Westfeeld, Bakedenefeld, Harberwefeld, Southfeld and Wyndmellefeld, Exning, as parcels of 30acre and a pightle which John Gardener the younger had.
65 - Quitclaim of lands in 588/T/64.
66 - Feoffment in form of indenture of 2 acres arable in South Feld and Wyndmellefeld, Exning, part of 9acre with which donors enfeoffed by 588/T/58.
67 - Feoffment of ½ acre in Byggynfeld [Fordham].
68 - Feoffment of land in 588/T/67.
69 - Quitclaim of land in 588/T/68.
70 - Feoffment of 7 acres arable in Exning fields granted to donor by John Gardener the younger, John Gladewene and John Sampsun of Exning.
71 - Quitclaim of land in 588/T71, defined as lying in Brakedenefeld, Wyndmellefeld, Arnowefeld, Southfeld Magna, Horberwefeld.
72 - Feoffment in form of indenture of 1 acre arable in Budgatefeld, one of two acres previously granted by feoffee to donors, with covenant that donors to have re-entry if other acre recovered in King's court by someone with anterior title.
73 - Feoffment in form of indenture of manor of Exning with all lands, liberties, etc in Exning, Reach and Burwell which donors had with John Martyn justice of Common Bench, John Billyng of Thurlby ('Thurleby') and Henry Spelman of Abthorp ('Appethorp'), deceased.
74 - Letters of attorney to make livery of seisen of manor of Exning etc.
75 - Feoffment of messuage and adjacent garden in Landwade (cf 588/T59).
76 - Lease for seven years in form of an indenture of watermill with adjacent tenement, windmill and two pightles on either side of the mill way in Exning, recently acquired from William Worlich.
77 - Quitclaim of messuage with adjacent croft in Exning.
78 - Feoffment of lands and tenements in Landwade fields and village of Exning which the donor has by gift of Thomas Crowe, William Warnere, both of Soham, and William Cantford the elder of Burwell.
79 - Feoffment in form of indenture of 7½ acres and 1½ r in Byggyngfeld, and 3s 6d rent of assise from garde called Derbyes and meadow called Lacyees pertaining to donors manors of Coggeshall and Bassingbourn in Fordham.
80 - Confirmation in form of indenture.
81 - Feoffment of tenement formerly of Thomas Grene and previous of Henry Samford, chaplain, in Samfordislane, Landwade which donor recently had with Robert and John Garson, deceased.
82 - Feoffment to uses with power of attorney of manor of Exning.
83 - Feoffment of messuage in Landwade and twenty pieces of land in Exning and Landwade fields.
84 - Assignment of term of lease for 21 years.
85 - Assignment of 588/T/85: John Cotton, esquire, to John Chennerye of Exning, yeoman. (Highly decorated intials).
86 - Bargain and Sale of 3r meadow in Landwade Moore, Exning, 2 half-acre pieces of arable in Arnowlde filde. Thomas Pleasance of Exning, yeoman, to Sir John Cotton of Landwade, knight, and John Cotton, esquire, his son and heir.
87 - Feoffment of 1½r arable in Arnould feilde, Exning.
88 - Feoffment of 1r arable in Arnolde fylde, Exning.
89 - Bargain and sale of 3 acres in Fordham Field.
90 - Lease for eight years.
91 - Feoffment of ½ acre meadow in Exning.
92 - Mortgage by demise for 1000 years.
93 - Assignment of same, in accordance with decree in chancery.
94 - Mortgage, by demise for 1000 years of Manor of Landwade with all lands in Landwade, Exning and Fordham.
95 - Covenant.
96 - Lease for a year of Manors of Landwade, Cogishall in Exning, Exning called Cotton's Hall, Madingley, Burley Wash alias Moore Barnes Farme in Madingley and Girton
97 - Assignment of mortgage by demise for 200 years.
98 - Manor of Exning Hall: Admission to 2 acre croft or pightle in Rotten Row, Exning.
99 - Covenant to stand seised of remainder of term of 1000 years.
100 - Abstract of title of Sir John Hynde Cotton, baronet.
101 - Lease for 15 years.
102 - Lease for 12 years.
103 - Copy of 588/T/102. In this acreage of the arable is given as 15, and rent as £24.
104 - Lease for 9 years of The Nest House with outbuildings, Dove House Close (3 acres) and 12 acres adjoining of low pasture land and 7 acres sedge ground in Burwell
105 - Draft or copy of 588/T/104.
106 - Manor of Exning Hall and Coggishall in Exning: admission to 1½ acres pasture called Burnt Yard.
107 - Lease for 14 years of Exning Hall Farm at present occupied by lessee excepting timber and right to sport and kill game, with covenant to keep in good repair and abide by certain conditions of agriculture and to yearly assign one fatted turkey and one fatted goose to lessor.
108 - Lease for 14 years.
110 - Feoffment of land 8 perches x 20ft in Haddenham village. William le Clubbere of Willingham ('Wyflyngham') to Eustace Warner of Haddenham, chaplain.
111 - Quitclaim of 100 shilling annual rent from lands of Alice, former wife of Fulk Banyard, in Haddenham.
112 - Feoffment of 2 pieces of arable in fields of Linton ('Lynton Magna'), one lying in place called Over Smalthornys and the other in furlong called Larkhel
113 - Feoffment of first of piece of land lying in place called Over Smalthornys in Linton Fields.
114 - Feoffment of land in 588/T/113. William Brond, the elder of Great Linton, to Margery, his wife
115 - Feoffment of land in 588/T/113, which grantors had from William Brond the elder.
116 - Quitclaim of land in 588/T/113: Margery, widow of William Brond to Simon le Note and William Banke of London.
117 - Feoffment of land in 588/T/113: William Longe of Linton to William Mylcent, Thomas Gardiner, fuller, Thomas Sely and John Mylcent of Linton
118 - Feoffment in form of indenture of a messuage called Peperis with courtyard and appurtenances in Rickinghall Superior (Suffolk) with covenant to make payment of 4 marks within a year.
119 - Covenant to procure marriage of John Cotton esquire and Elizabeth, covenantee's daughter.
120 - Mortgage in fee of all messuages etc in East Greenwich and Deptford purchased from mortgagee by deed of 17 April 1583 and messuages and tenements, three gardens and an alley in St Clement Danes, London.
121 - Mortgage in fee.
122 - Lease for 21 years.
123 - Gift in frankalmoign of messuage with croft in Toft, formerly donor's father's except garden from donor's wall to road, and 4 seliens in Toft Field.
124 - Feoffment of 2a½r in East Field, Heydon Field and Bradefeld, Eversden.
125 - Lease for 7 years in form of chirograph.
126 - Feoffment of a messuage in Madingley ('Maddyngle') formerly of Edmund Ryppyngale.
127 - Feoffment of property in 588/T/126.
128 - Receipt for 20 shillings in completion of payment of £6 6s 8d for purchase of property in 588/T126, termed a tenement called Jeks, with quitclaim.
129 - Feoffment to uses of a messuage in Histon at end of Girton village.
130 - Feoffment of messuage between those recently of Thomas Crastis, recently prior, and the chantry of B Mary.
131 - Grant in form of royal letters patent.
132 - Feoffment of 12½a1r arable, meadow and pasture in Girton and Bradmere Felde, Water Coddes, Meadowe felde, Stamforthe felde and Gyrton Meadowe, Girton, and in Madingley Fields (5r arable and 2a pasture only).
133 - Feoffment of lands in 588/T/132, John Lovell of Cottenham, yeoman, to John Russell of Cottenham, yeoman.
134 - Quitclaim of lands in 588/T/132. John Essex of Cottenham, husbandman to John Russel.
135 - Feoffment of Girton lands only (10a1½r) of 588/T132: John Russell of Cottenham, gent to John Tailor of Madingley, yeoman.
136 - Feoffment of lands in 588/T135 and 2a1r meadow and pasture in Bardole, Westwick abutting Westwick Brook.
137 - Quitclaim of lands in 588/T135. William Taylor, son and heir of Robert Taylor recently of Girton, to Robert Taylor his brother.
138 - Feoffment of lands in 588/T135: Robert Taylor of Landbeach, yeoman, to Susan Barnes of Landbeach, singlewoman, his intended wife.
139 - Mortgage in fee of Girton lands only (10a1½r) of 588/T/132:
140 - Counterpart of 588/T/139. Seal.
141 - Receipt of repayment of £16 10s 8d due on 588/T138: Richard Pike of Cambridge, baker, to William Taylor and Robert Taylor of Landbeach, yeoman.
142 - Receipt for £15 9s 3d due on 588/T/138: Richard Pike of Cambridge, baker, to William Taylor and Robert Taylor of Landbeach, yeoman. Squashed seal.
143 - Reconveyance of property mortgaged in 588/T/138: Richard Pike of Cambridge, baker, to William Taylor and Robert Taylor of Landbeach, yeoman. Seal.
144 - Receipt of £15 9s 3d due on 588/T/138: Marie Pike of Cambridge, widow, and Richard Pike of Wyton (Hunts), clerk, executors of Robert Pike of Cambridge, baker. (Paper).
145 - Receipt for £14 7s 11d due on 588/T/142: Marie Pike of Cambridge, widow, and Richard Pike of Wyton (Hunts), clerk, executors of Robert Pike of Cambridge, baker. 2 seals.
146 - Bond for £60 to perform covenants [probably relating to mortgage of same property or to property mortgaged in 588/T/151].
147 - Lease and release of 10½a½r arable, pasture and meadow in Girton (as 588/T/132-145).
148 - Probate of will dated 19 January 1678/1679 of William Lee of Girton, yeoman, leaving house with close to son John, £10 to son Robert, £50 to daughter and residue to wife Elizabeth, executrix.
149 - Mortgage by demise for 500 years of 10a½r in Girton (as 588/T132-147).
150 - Assignment of lands in Girton in 588/T/149.
151 - Mortgage of same 10½a½r in Girton (as 588/T/132-150) and 4a1r arable meadows and pasture previous in occupation of Edward Wilson (cf 588/T/146).
152 - Assignment of lands in Girton in 588/T/151.
153 - Assignment of lands in Girton in 588/T/151.
154 - Feoffment of messuage called Collyns in Girton with appurtenances in Girton, Histon and Impington (cf 588/T129), which granter recently had [?by mortgage in fee] from feoffee by deed of 2 September 1598.
155 - Settlement on marriage of Anthony Hynde, son and heir of Edward Hynde, to Anne Gostwick, daughter of William Gostwick.
156 - Lease for lessor's life of 80 years of lands in Girton conveyed by 588/T156 with covenant to educate lessor's child etc.
157 - Articles of agreement on marriage of Edward Hynde, grandson of Sir Edward Hynde, and Agnes, daughter of Thomas Maples.
158 - Counterpart of 588/T/157. Armorial seal of Thomas Maples.
159 - Lease for 60 years as agreed in 588/T/157. Armorial seal.
160 - Counterpart of 588/T/159. Armorial seal of Thomas Maples.
161 - Assignment of 588/T/156 as agreed in 588/T/157. Fractured seal of Thomas Maples.
162 - Counterpart surrender of Manor of Burelwas alias Sheire Mannour Moore-barnes, Moreham and Harleston and other lands in Madingley in accordance with 588/T/157.
163 - Covenant to levy fine in accordance with 588/T/157.
164 - Counterpart of 588/T/163. Armorial seal.
165 - Pardon in form of royal letters patent for alienation of lands acquired by fine levied in accordance with 588/T/163.
166 - Portion of lease of lands (?) in Madingley: Sir Edward Hinde to John Goud.
167 - Lease for 21 years from Michaelmas 1610 of Madingley Hall with houses, dovehouses etc, park, Hawkesmew Yarde, New Pastures (between park and common field) and Madingley Wood.
168 - Declaration of trust to mortgage in fee of a messuage and 1 close of 12 acres known as the site of Manor of Liles in Cottenham with 20½ acres arable lying dispersed in common fields.
169 - Feoffment of all arable lands, meadow, common and sheeprun in Madingley and Whitwell [in Coton] inherited from Joan Norman, spinster, the feoffor's aunt (cf 588/T/125, 127, 128).
170 - Feoffment of all tenements, lands, meadows, etc in Madingley and Whitwell inherited from Joan Norman, the feoffor's sister-in-law.
171 - Feoffment of all arable lands etc in Madingley and Whitwell inherited from Jane Norman, the feoffor's aunt, and 5a3r arable in Whitwell Field and in Wood Field, Mill Field and Barnwell Ditch Field, Madingley.
172 - Feoffment of 12 acres arable in fields of Madingley and Whitwell in the parish of Barton and Coton as in annexed schedule [missing].
173 - Feoffment of messuage with houses, etc in Madingley late in occupation of Thomas Nash with 40 acres arable and 7 acres meadow in Madingley Fields formerly the property of Chatteris Priory.
174 - Acknowledgement of satisfaction for second instalment of consideration in respect of 588/T173 and quitclaim of property conveyed.
175 - Feoffment of messuage with appurtenances in Madingley late of Agnes Norman, 3 acres arable in Madingley Fields and 1½ acres meadow in Madingley Meadow.
176 - Quitclaim of all lands in Madingley formerly of Anthony Ivatt late of Madingley, deceased, in accordance with his will.
177 - Covenant to levy fine.
178 - Counterpart of 588/T/177.
179 - Fine levied in court of Common Pleas in accordance with 588/T177-178.
180 - Covenant that recognizance in the nature of a Statute Staple will be of no effect so long as covenants of lease of even date to conusee observed.
181 - Mortgage of demise for 2000 years of property covenanted in 588/T166.
182 - Assignment of 588/T/181 pursuant to decree in Chancery.
183 - Assignment of rents, profits etc, from 588/T/181 and of six messuages with gardens, etc in Stone Street Maidstone (Kent) and a messuage in Little Queen Street, St Giles-in-the-Fields (Middx).
184 - Abstract of title covering 588/T/158-172 with opinion of Nathaniel Pigott appended.
185 - Abstract of title covering 588/T/158-172.
186 - Bond of £60 for performance of feoffment of even date of 2½ acres arable in Girton Fields.
187 - Feoffment of 1a1r arable in Church Field and Stanford Field, Girton.
188 - Bond for £20 for performance of 588/T/187.
189 - Feoffment of ½ acre meadow at Gissons, Girton.
190 - Feoffment to uses of 4a1r particularly described in 3 deeds [i.e. 588/T170, 172 and last feoffment of 29 April 1632] to create a jointure.
191 - Bond of £40 for payment of £10 annuity during life of Agnes, conusor's wife (widow of Edward Hynde).
192 - Mortgage by demise for 1000 years.
193 - Recognizance in the Nature of a Statute Staple for £10000 to be paid by following Whitsun.
194 - Defeasance of same on condition that terms of mortgage (588/T/175) maintained.
195 - Mortgage by demise for 1000 years of Manors of Madingley and Girton etc. (as 588/T/175)
196 - Counterpart of 588/T/195. Fragment of seal.
197 - Recognizance in the Nature of Statute Staple for £10000 to be repaid by 25 July following.
198 - Defeasance of 588/T/197 on condition that terms of mortgage (588/T/178) maintained.
199 - Counterpart of 588/T/198. Seal.
200 - Lease for 21 years of Madingley Parsonage, excepting advowson of vicarage.
201 - Lease for 19 years of property in 588/T/200.
202 - Lease for 3 years of property in 588/T/200.
203 - Lease during minority of heir of Manor of Ramsey and Enderby alias Pigotts in Girton and advowson of church late in tenure of Anne Hinde in King's hand by wardship of Jane Hinde, daughter of Edward Hinde, deceased.
204 - Order to be intendant to royal lessee of 588/T/203.
205 - Manor of Madingley: Admission to 5 acres in Madingley Fields.
206 - Manor of Madingley: Draft admission to 5 acres in Madingley Fields.
207 - Feoffment of tenement and close called Brinkley in Well Lane, Girton.
208 - Copy (14 November 1655) of John Smeeth of Girton, yeoman, interalia devising property in 588/T207 to Wife Amy for life and then to daughter Jean and also 9 acres called Wixorns in Girton and copyhold lands in Girton, Over and Impington to wife with various provisions.
209 - Lease and release of property in 588/T/207.
210 - Covenant to levy fine for property 588/T/207 and for messuage in Histon formerly of John Matthews.
211 - Fine levied in pursuance of 588/T/210.
212 - Lease and release of property in 588/T/210 as a settlement on the marriage of the granter of Susanna Tubbs, spinster.
213 - Lease and release of property in 588/T/210 with covenant to levy fine.
214 - Fine levied in pursuance of 588/T/213 (two copies).
215 - Lease and release of property in 588/T/210 to create a tenant to the precipe for suffering a common recovery.
216 - Exemplification of common recovery of property in 588/T/210.
217 - Mortgage by demise for 1000 years of property in 588/T/210.
218 - Lease and release of property in 588/T/210 with assignment in trust for 1000 years and covenant to suffer recovery and surrender of 2 acres copyhold lands in fields of Girton at next court of manor of Girton Pigotts.
219 - Abstract of title of Thomas Watson to property (excluding 2 acres) covering 588/T/212-218.
220 - Extract from will of Sarah Game late of Histon (1786; cf 588/T/215) devising all lands to Ann Brand.
221 - Lease and release of land (as 588/T/218) with covenant to surrender 2 acre copyhold in fields of Girton at next manor court.
222 - Manor of Girton Pigotts: Surrender of 2 acres in fields of Girton.
223 - Letter of attorney to take seisen of lands late of Sir William Hind of Madingley in grantor's name and name of Dame Jane the grantor's wife, heir of Edward Hind of Madingley, knight, and widow of Edward Hind, esquire, lying in Coton, Hardwick, Dry Drayton and Eastwood in March.
224 - Indenture of fine for 5 messuages, 5 gardens, 5 orchards, 220 acres land, 30 acres pasture, common of pasture and a fold course for 500 sheep in Girton.
225 - Indentures of a fine for 4 messuages, 4 cottages, 2 tofts, 350 acres land, 30 acres meadow, 50 acres pasture, 5 acres woodland in Girton, Impington and Madingley, with account for court fees.
226 - Lease for 60 years of farms in tenancy of Paul Roberts, John Rose and Robert Tall, yeoman, in Girton, Histon, Impington and Madingley.
227 - Counterpart of same 588/T/227 (several pieces cut from it).
228 - Assignment of mortgage by demise (referred to in 588/T/226-227).
229 - Assignment of mortgage by demise (referred to in 588/T/226-227) of property in 588/T/229.
230 - Receipt for consideration money for release of 27 acres land in Madingley of same date.
231 - Bond for performance of covenants of 588/T/230.
232 - Covenant to levy fine on a messuage with orchard and arable, meadow pasture, woodground and common of pasture belonging to them in Madingley in possession of John Woodford and William Chambers.
233 - Release of property in 588/T/232, devised by grantor by John Woodford and now in occupation of William Chambers.
234 - Receipt of consideration money of 588/T/233.
235 - Bond for performance of covenants of 588/T/233.
236 - Release of liability on messuage and several tenements [?in Cambridge] liable on unpaid recognizance of William Munns to John Elsum of London, haberdasher, assigned by latter's executors to donors.
237 - Lease and release of tenement and grove in Madingley in occupation of Nicholas Sterne (cf 588/T/232-235) bequeathed to donor by Joseph Nightingale of Cambridge, malster, her late husband.
238 - Bond in £170 for performance of covenants of 588/T/237.
239 - Lease for 2 months of farmhouse and appurtenances, 56½ acres arable in Woodfield and 27 acres in Girton Field sown with various crops (detailed) in Madingley in lessee's occupation, wit covenants to maintain land and livestock.
240 - Lease for 3 years of barns, etc, next to house formerly occupied by Robert Tall and now by lessee and 50 acres arable in Girton.
241 - Manor of Girton Pigotts cum Ramse(y)s: Admission.
242 - Manor of Girton Pigotts cum Ramse(y)s: Admission to lands in 588/T/241.
243 - Articles of Agreement for discharge of debts and disposal of property of Robert Fuller of Hardwick deceased between Elizabeth Fuller, his widow, and Robert Fuller his son, both executors.
244 - Bond for payment of £53 consideration money for conditional surrender of messuage and 15 acres arable in Hardwick held of Manor of Hardwick.
245 - Manor of Hardwick: Surrender of all copyhold lands.
246 - Manor of Hardwick: Admission to messuage and 15 acres arable in Hardwick (as 588/T/244).
247 - Manor of Hardwick: Copy conditional surrender of property as 588/T/246 with close, with bond and promissary note for payment of £3.
248 - Manor of Hardwick: Surrender of property as 588/T/246 with bond in £420 for performance.
249 - Manor of Hardwick: Admission to property as 588/T/246.
250 - Manor of Hardwick: Admission to property as 588/T/246.
251 - Manor of Girton Pigotts cum Ramses: conditional surrender of 5 acre close in House Lane, Girton.
252 - Manor of Girton Pigotts cum Ramses: conditional surrender of 5 acre close in House Lane, Girton (as 588/T/251)
253 - Manor of Girton Pigotts cum Ramses: conditional surrender of 3 closes containing 6 acres.
254 - Manor of Girton Pigotts cum Ramses: Surrender of a cottage with close.
256 - Assignment of mortgage of 1680 referred to in 588/T/249.
257 - Lease for 40 years of messuage and close called Richardsons and 12 acres arable in fields of Hardwick.
258 - Lease for 6 years of property in 588/T/257.
259 - Mortgage by demise for 1000 years of Pease, alias Buttons, Close (2 acres), 2 acres close in Hashmer Deane Field, and Offill Close (2 acres) in Stockwell Deane Field, Hardwick.
260 - Assignment of mortgage of lands in 588/T/259.
261 - Lease for a year and mortgage in fee of lands in 588/T/259.
262 - Manor of Girton Pigotts cum Ramseys: Surrender of a tenement and admission of new tenant.
263 - Manor of Girton Pigotts cum Ramseys: Conditional surrender of a messuage, orchard and close of pasture with 1r arable in Girton.
264 - Manor of Girton Pigotts cum Ramseys: Surrender of 3½ r arable in Girton Fields.
265 - Lease for 3 years of tenement with close in lessee's occupation, 3 cow commons, 3 sheep commons and 3 acres arable in Hardwick.
266 - Lease for 3 years of a tenement and close with 15 acres arable in occupation of Thomas Setchell and Offeild Close (2 acres), except 1½ acres arable now in occupation of Robert Clement of Toft and all timber, in Hardwick.
267 - Manor of Girton Piggotts cum Ramseys: Surrender of messuage with little close (cf 588/T/248) in Girton.
268 - Lease for 6 years of Pease, alias Buttons, Close (2 acres), Hardwick.
269 - Probate of will (2 October 1721) of William Fuller of Cambridge, tinplate worker.
270 - Lease for 6 years of 2 acre close with messuage and 12 acres arable called Richardsons, Pease Close, 2 acre close at end of Home Close (excluding parlour in dwelling house and timber) in Hardwick.
271 - Mortgage by demise for 500 years of property in 588/T/270 (without exclusions) in occupation of John Hind and undertenants.
272 - Further advance of £10 on mortgage 588/T/271.
273 - Further advance of £60 on mortgage 588/T/271.
274 - Assignment of mortgage in 588/T/271.
275 - Bond for £330 for payment of £165 [? interest money on mortgage] and release of writs of error by virtue of judgement for debt of same.
276 - Extract of will of Robert Fuller of Hardwick, yeoman (26 December 1690; proved 24 September 1692).
277 - Lease and release of mortgaged property (as 588/T266) with covenant to levy fine.
278 - Reconveyance of property as in 588/T/277.
279 - Feoffment of two cottages and 1 acre orchard in Madingley.
280 - Bond for 588/T/279.
281 - Manor of Girton Pigotts: conditional surrender of messuages with 18 acres arable and pasture and 9 acres arable in open fields, Girton, with bond for payment.
282 - Manor of Girton Pigotts: bond for payment of £120 on conditional.
283 - Manor of Girton Pigotts: conditional surrender of messuage and 45 acres in fields, Girton, with bond for payment.
284 - Manor of Girton Pigotts: conditional surrender of property in 588/T283 with bond for payment.
285 - Manor of Girton Pigotts: surrender of messuage, 40 acres in open fields and 2 closes of pasture in occupation of Edward Barnes (? identical with property in 588/T/284).
286 - Conditional Sale of 3 geldings, a mare and eight cows on same farm. Edward Barnes to Sir John Hind Cotton, baronet. Consideration: £20.
287 - Lease for 3 years of all messuages and tenements [in Madingley] in occupation of Isaac Anderson of Madingley.
288 - Lease for 15 years of Hows Hill sheep walk with house lessee dwells in and closes in Girton with covenants for agriculture of same.
289 - Lease for 7 years of house with close in Girton in lessee's occupation with covenants for maintenance.
290 - Lease and release of 3r arable in common fields of Madingley.
291 - Lease for 21 years of a piece of ground in Wood Field, Madingley with windmill and cottage with stable and hog sty near Cold Bath Corner.
292 - Assignment of lease in 588/T/291.
293 - Lease and release of 2 acres in Madingley, with attested copy of lease and release of same and also messuage with yard in St Giles, Cambridge, 1a1r arable in Housefield, Chesterton and 1r in Galley Hill, Coton (7 and 8 June 1773), with bond for performance and indemnity.
294 - Copy of probate (1800) of will of William Lee inter alia devising property as 588/T293 to his son Robert.
295 - Lease and release of 2a (as 588/T/293, described as in Collier Furlong, Low Field, Madingley).
296 - Manor of Girton Pigotts with Ramseys: Surrender of 2r6p in Beck Furlong, Redland Field as part of same sale as 588/T/295.
297 - Agreement for lease for 6 years of farm in occupation of William Phyphers in Madingley and replacement of batten fence.
298 - Manor of Girton Pigotts with Ramseys: admission to cottage and close of pasture in Girton.
299 - Abstract of title of Francis Mayes of property in 588/T/298, covering deeds from 1738.
300 - Agreement for surrender of property in Girton in 588/T298, with receipt for part of purchase money attached.
301 - Manor of Girton Pigotts with Ramseys: copy surrender of property in 588/T/298.
302 - Manor of Girton Pigotts with Ramseys: conditional surrender of property in 588/T/298, with promissary note attached.
303 - Manor of Girton Pigotts with Ramseys: acknowledgement of satisfaction on property in 588/T/298. William Stanley to James Fidgen.
304 - Manor of Girton Pigotts with Ramseys: surrender of property in 588/T/298, described as cottage with barn and close of 1 acre and 1a2r12p arable.
305 - Draft release of Madingley Hall and all lands in Madingley, Girton, Histon, Cambridge, Landwade, Exning and Hardwick, pictures, furniture and stock in Madingley Hall, manor of East Smithfield (Middx), freehold property and leasehold brewhouse, etc in East Smithfield in consideration of trustee's engagement to pay debts of £1500.
306 - Copy of partition of Madingley Estate with rectorial glebe and rent charge in lieu of tithes but excluding school-house and chancel of parish church, late property of co-parceners' brother Sir St Vincent Cotton, baronet.
307 - Exemplification of Recovery in Common Pleas in Trinity Term, 19 Henry VII (1504) of Manor of Hockley, 4 messuages, 100 acres arable, 40 acres meadow, 100 acres pasture, 12 acres wood and 20 shillings annual rent.
308 - Lease and release of Manor of Hatley St George.
309 - Mortgage by demise for 2000 years of messuage called Spoutehouse with fields and closes (named) and messuage called Oxen Leaze in Westerham (Kent) with copy of will with letters of administration of John Toller (1732) and receipt on Jane Toller's behalf for one quarter's annuity enclosed.
310 - Asssignment of lease for remainder of term of 21 years of messuage called Squerryes and 150 acre lands belonging to it in Westerham (Kent), leased in 1718 by William, Earl of Jersey to Abel Alleyne, esquire, by whom assigned by present assignor (588/T309).
311 - Covenant to produce title deeds (lease and release of Spout House, Westerham, etc by Abel Alleyn to Hon, Michael Richards, 19-20 April 1721, the inheritance of Dame Margaret Cotton, Anne Knight and Elizabeth Eliot), part of title of Manor of Westfield and farm called Westfield Place (Sussex) and other lands in the same county released by covenantees to covenator.
312 - Assignment of lease for remainder of term of 45½ years.
313 - Release (lease missing) of plot of land west of Dover (late Clarendon) Street, part of land on which Albermale House, granted to Edward Earl of Clarendon by Charles II, formerly stood with buildings in St Martin-in-the-Fields and garden formerly parcel of garden of Berkeley (now Devonshire) House adjoining in Berkeley Street, with assignment of term in trust.
314 - Further security on mortgage of 1729 for £6600.
315 - Lease for 21 years of grange with croft between grange and churchyard with tithes of mediety of Gamlingay Parsonage.
316 - Lease for 21 years of grange with croft between grange and churchyard with tithes of mediety of Gamlingay Parsonage
317 - Licence to alienate (ie assign term) of mortgage 588/T316. (Merton College seal).
318 - Counterpart lease for 6 years of farm at Brookend, Gamlingay and moiety of parish of tithe corn.
319 - Agreement for lease for 6 years of lands in occupation of John Malden, senior, of Gamlingay, with mediety of great tithes.
320 - Manor of Rumburgh: Admission to a pightle with grove (3 acres) once part of Wades tenement with 7 acres abutting Burwick Lane in Ilketshall St Lawrence.
321 - Lease for 40 years in form of an indenture of 60 acres known as Reigate Hill in Reigate with free warren.
322 - Manor of Epsom (Ebbisham): licence to lease copyhold property for 31 years.
323 - Manor of Epsom (Ebbisham): licence to lease copyhold property for 99 years.
324 - Manor of Epsom: admission to copyhold lands.
325 - Manor of Epsom: admission to messuage, etc on south-east side of Clay Hill and 2 messuages (formerly one) on south-east side of New Inn Lane in Epsom, with licence to lease for 21 years.
326 - Lease for a year (preliminary to release).
327 - Five draft leases for 21 years.
328 - Lease for 21 years.
329 - Bond to pay £600, remaining part of bond or £1000 contracted by obligator's father in 1685.
330 - Lease for 61 years of a new house in Great Burlington Street, St James Westminster (shown in annexed plan as between those of Col Hamilton and Col Ligonier) in accordance with Private Act of 4 Geo III.
331 - Lease for 15 years of house in Great Burlington Street as in 588/T330 (Colonel Hamilton's house now occupied by Sir George Saunders) with detailed inventory of fittings annexed.
332 - Lease for 23 years of house in Great Burlington Street as in 588/T/331 (i.e. remainder of term leased to present lessor's predecessor by 588/T330). Agnes Cotton to James Burgess.
333 - Lease for 7 years of a stable for four horses and coach houses with chamber over in Barlow's Meuse, St George Hanover Square.
334 - Lease for 21 years of a messuage with shed on south side of Wellclose Square, St George-in-the-East, adjoining lessor's property to west occupied by Government and known as the Court House and Town Gaol and formerly occupied by Capt Alexander Smith.
335 - Assignment of all title to portion from securities created by marriage settlement of 1745 (cf 588/T335) and of subsequent settlements with appointment of attorney.
336 - Agreement by younger children not to demand payment of portions under family settlement for ten years.
337 - Counterpart lease for 10 years of no. 2 Manor Row near Tower Hill, shown on plan in margin as shop adjacent to late Hambro' Arms. Dame Philadelphia Cotton of Madingley, widow, to George Foulkes, cheesemonger.
338 - Confirmation of 588/T/337 by Richard King, vice-admiral, and Maria King (daughter of Dame Philadelphia Cotton).
339 - Confirmation of lease of 10 April 1822 of no.10 Manor Row (Dame Philadelphia Cotton to James Downes, turner) by Richard King, vice-admiral and Maria King.
340 - List of Lady Philadelphia Cotton's deeds relating to former Parsons estates and trusts created from them, 1709-1806.
341 - Schedule of Lady Philadelphia Cotton's deeds.
342 - Note of deeds kept in 'Physic Closet'
343 - Mold: Copy of release (subsequent to lease for six months) to lead the uses of a Common Recovery to be suffered at next sessions or assizes for County of Flint.
344 - Mold: Gift of annuity of £60 p.a. rent charge on Mold estates, with bond in £1000 for payment and note of draft.
345 - Westwell (Norfolk): Covenant to stand seised of messuage in Westwell in occupation of Robert Turner.
346 - Groton (Suffolk): Draft lease for eleven years of the Place Lands, Brick Kiln Field and messuage, called Middle Farm, Groton, except timber with extensive conditions.
347 - Wrapper from deeds once in possession of Charles Chambers, esquire, addressed to Sir John Cotton, baronet.
348 - Scraps of deeds used to tie others, including one made from lease of tithes.
349 - Seal fragments
350 - Detached seal with star device.
351 - Detached seal with name 'Will Taylor' on tag.
352 - Certificate of Jane Hynd's title to the Manor of Girton with an account of her ancestors, former owners of the manor.
353 - Lease for a year of the Manor and dissolved Priory of Reigate with lands in Surrey and Sussex.
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