Memorandum of mortgage, Stanground, Huntingdonshire

Be it remembered that on 26 Jan. 1744 Arthur Hill did out of Court surrender by the hands of Ralph Bradford and John Andrews (A.H. being a customary tenant of the Manor) all that his great fenn part of about 5 1/2 acres in Farsett Fen in the Manor aforementioned, next the lands of Charlton Wyldbore, gent., late William Charlton's (deceased) and now in occupation of A. Hill...To the use of William Walgrave of Peterborough, Northants., provided that if Arthur Hill should pay to William Walgrave the sum of £40 with interest on Jan. 26 next, the surrender to be void. Signed by Arthur Hill [he signs himself Arthur bill]. Witnessed by Ralph Bradford and John Andrews.

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Purchased from H.R. Moulton, 151 Fleet Street, London, E.C. 4, 27 March 1922

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