Conveyance by feoffment, Sutton, Cambridgeshire

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 12 MS Doc.3701
  • Dates of Creation
      25 Oct. 1838-26 Oct. 1838
  • Language of Material
      English .
  • Physical Description
      1 item(s) vellum vellum

Scope and Content

In consideration of #36, Hannah Feast of Sutton, widow, formerly Hannah Haddock, grants and enfeoffs to Benjamin Bedingham of Sutton, yeoman, and his heirs her two acres and one rood of land lying in two places in Medlands, Sutton, formerly part of the estate of her late husband Benjamin Haddock of Sutton, farmer. The mark and seal of Hannah Feast, witnessed by Robert Tubbs [or Jubbs] of Sutton and Thomas Archer jnr of Ely, duty stamps. Endorsed with receipt for consideration money, same date and signatures. Further endorsed with certificate of livery of seisin, dated the following day and witnessed by Josiah ?Bircher and Thomas Haddock. Form of indenture supplied by John Smith of Long Acre, parchment-dealer, and Silvester and Co of The Strand, engravers.

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Acquisition Information

Presented by A. Leverington Esq, of Cambridge, November 1943

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