Bargain and sale, Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 12 MS Doc.3795
  • Dates of Creation
      7 Oct. 1597 (39 Elizabeth I)
  • Language of Material
      English .
  • Physical Description
      1 item(s) vellum vellum

Scope and Content

In consideration of #90, Richard St George of St George Hatley, Cambridgeshire, gent, and Elizabeth his wife, sell to John Tailor of Biddenden, Kent, clothier, a tenement and pightle of ground in Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire, with ten acres of arable land, formerly in the tenure of Richard Stocker, gent, and now in the tenure of Lawrence Watts, freemason. Indenture, signed and sealed by both St Georges (one seal missing), witnessed by Robert Bankworth and John Owen. Endorsed: 'No 1'.

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Acquisition Information

Presented by C.F. Tebbutt F.S.A. of St Neots, 24 February 1948

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