| Description | A messuage with close adjoining in Great Addington, and 2¾ yardlands with 4 acres of meadow in Great Addington, Little Addington and Woodford, formerly owned by Henry, Earl of Peterborough, was acquired by Laurence Sanderson of Little Addington in 1647; in 1678 Laurence Sanderson the younger of Great Addington purchased 4 acres of arable land and ½ an acre of meadow, the holme, in Great Addington from Christopher Freeman, see CR0162/353; in 1679 he purchased a ½ yardland in Great Addington, from William Bosworth of the same; in 1682 he purchased a dwelling-house with close adjoining in Great Addington, next the messuage of the Earl of Peterborough, and arable land, lay and meadow in Great Addington (see Schedule), of John Bolney the elder and Priscilla his wife; in 1725 a messuage or farmhouse in Great Addington and 120 acres of land in Great Addington, Little Addington and Woodford, which had been mortgaged to Robert Lambe of Great Addington by Thomas Sanderson, son of the aforesaid Laurence, was conveyed to him by his son Laurence Sanderson. |