| Description | 6th May 1700: the manor of Great Addington, the mansion-house, with close adjoining, Long Lane Close, Cook's Leyes Close, Widow Batson's Close, a piece of meadow called Abbot's Tongue, all in Great Addington, with 6 acres of ley ground and 4½ yardlands in Great Addington, Little Addington and Woodford, 3 cottages in Great Addington, with all tithes, rentals, etc., all formerly the estate of Thomas Bletsoe; a farmhouse in Great Addington with close adjoining, and 4 yardlands in Great Addington, Little Addington and Woodford, with 10 acres of meadow and 12 acres of furze (called the Old), purchased of John Maydwell of Kettering, clerk; a cottage in Great Addington purchased from Robert Smyth of the same; a farmhouse in Great Addington, with close adjoining, Woodruff's Close and 2¼ yardlands, all formerly held by Thomas Woodruff; a messuage in the High Street of Great Addington, with close adjoining, and 1 yardland purchased of John and Susanna Beeby; another messuage in the same purchased of John Cox; the Smith's shop purchased of John Cox; the Smith's shop purchased of John and Jane Bolney and Martha Neale. Included are 3 earlier mortgages and the mortgage of all the aforesaid made by Robert Lambe to Gilbert Horsman in November 1703 for part payment of the consideration. |