Admission, Ashwell, Hertfordshire

At a Court Baron of the manor of Ashwell, before Francis Dickens, esq., steward, 3 May 1727. John Payne came and surrendered by the hands of the steward, a messuage situated in the west end of Ashwell, formerly of Susanna Payne and before that, of John Shipman, to the sole use of John Cotton...And John Cotton comes...and is admitted. Signed by Francis Dickens.

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

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