Feoffment, Haslingfield, Cambridgeshire

Thomas Battey, labourer, of Haslingfield, and Jane his wife, for 5/- and other causes, have bargained, on feoffe and exchanged to Chris. Hall, wheelwright, and Ellen his wife 3 sellions of arable lying in Rowley Field, next to lands of Queens' Coll. S., the E. end abutting on Rongbrooke and the W. head upon land of Altham Smith, esq., which were purchased by Edward Battey, father of Thomas, from William Fuller 3rd Apr. 1657...To have and to hold...Signed by Thomas Batty and Jean Batty [sic], 2 seals attached. Witnessed by Thos. Holder and Thomas Thompson. The document referred to in MS Doc.949.

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

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