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Lease [and release] indenture, Stamford, Lincolnshire and Wisbech, Cambridgeshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.408
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Ann Hill of Wisbech, widow and devisee of Joseph Hill of the same, sells to William Scrimshire of the same and Thomas Fawssett of the same certain land in the above towns for the term of one year at a peppercorn rent that they may be possessed of them and take a release. Witnesses: Susanna Pix, G. Maule. One seal is attached.

Dates: 2 Jan. 1769
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[Lease and] release indenture, Swaffham Prior, Cambridgeshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.423
Scope and Contents William Gilson, senior, of Swaffham Prior and Dorothy his wife and William Gilson, junior of the same and Dorothy his wife release to Thomas Eaton of Little Wilbraham certain land in Swaffham Prior, being his by Indenture of Lease dated the previous day, to him and his heirs to the use of him and his heirs for ever. Witnesses: James Pament, William Eastwell, James Robinson. On the back is a receipt for the consideration money signed by William Gilson, senior, and William Gilson, junior....
Dates: 1 Apr. 1731
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[Lease and] release indenture, Tydd St Giles, Cambridgeshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.397
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John Herman Romswinkell of Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, and Albinia his wife release to John Exton of Woodnewton, Northamptonshire, certain land in Tydd St Giles which they had let to the same by Indenture dated the previous day for a term of six months at a peppercorn rent, to him and his heirs for ever to the use of him and his heirs for ever. Witnesses: William Warriner, Thomas Pimble, Sylvester Eyre.

Dates: 11 Oct. 1665
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Lease [and release] indenture, Westminster, Middlesex

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.254
Scope and Contents Sir Robert Marsham of Bushey, Hertfordshire, Jacob, Lord Astley of Redding, of Maidstone, Kent, and Edwin Wiat of Maidstone sell to Charles Rampayne of Westminster certain land in Westminster for the term of one year at a peppercorn rent, that he may be in actual possession and able to take a release. Witnesses: for Lord Astley: Peter Goring, Charles Colman, John Rampayne; for Edwin Wiat: Thomas Wiat, Charles Colman, Joseph Allen; for Sir Robert Marsham; R. Derbyshire, Charles Colman,...
Dates: 18 July 1687
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[Lease and] release indenture, Westminster, Middlesex

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.255
Scope and Contents Whereas Sir John Tufton of Maidstone, Kent, by will dated 8 October 1685 bequeathed to Jacob, Lord Astley, and Edwin Wiat and their heirs all his lands in Westminster on trust to sell them for the payment of his debts, any profits afterwards arising to be divided between Cisley Guillams of Canterbury, sister to Sir John Tufton, and Margaret wife of James Jeffreys, DD, of Canterbury, daughter of Olympia Wray, sister to Sir John Tufton; Sir Robert Marsham by the consent of Jacob, Lord Astley,...
Dates: 19 July 1687
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[Lease and] release indenture, Westminster, Middlesex

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.258
Scope and Contents Whereas a marriage is agreed upon between Edmond Williamson junior of Westminster and Martha Rampaine daughter of Charles Rampayne of the same; Charles Rampaine in lieu of a marriage portion releases to John Willson of Birling, Sussex, and Charles Farwell of Westminster certain land in Westminster, to them and their heirs for ever, to the use of Edmond Williamson for life, then to the use of John Willson and Charles Farwell, then to the use of Martha Rampaine for life, afterwards to the use...
Dates: 10 Feb. 1700
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Lease [and release] indenture, Westminster, Middlesex

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.259
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Charles Rampaine of Westminster sells to John Willson of Birling, Sussex, and Charles Farwell of Westminster certain land in Westminster for the term of one year at a peppercorn rent that they may be in possession and take a release. Witnesses: John Turner, William Godfry, John Gutch.

Dates: 9 Feb. 1700
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Lease and release indenture, Writtle, Essex, Isleworth and Westminster, Middlesex

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.262
Scope and Contents Whereas by Indentures of Lease and Release dated 9 and 10 February 1700 [Doc 257] Edmond Williamson junior of Westminster released to Charles Rampayne of Westminster, John Shelton of London John Rampayne of Westminster and Charles Farwell of Westminster certain land, to them and their heirs for ever upon certain trusts; and whereas by Indenture dated 10 February 1700 [Doc 258] Charles Rampayne released to John Willson of Birling, Sussex, and Charles Farwell certain land in their possession...
Dates: 26 Feb. 1701
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Lease and release indentures, Shefford, Bedfordshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.219
Dates: 30 May 1774-31 May 1774
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Lease and release indentures, Shefford, Bedfordshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.224
Dates: 4 Dec. 1798-5 Dec. 1798
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Lease and release indentures, Shefford, Bedfordshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.237
Dates: 21 May 1736-22 May 1736
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Lease and release indentures, Shefford, Bedfordshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.240
Dates: 27 Dec. 1753-28 Dec. 1753
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Lease and release indentures, Shefford, Bedfordshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.241
Dates: 1 Mar. 1757-2 Mar. 1757
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Lease and release, Manea, Cambridgeshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3772
Scope and Contents In February 1821, Robert Negus of Upwell, Norfolk, farmer (3rd party), mortgaged for #500 various parcels of freehold land, including an estate for life in 17 acres in Cranemoor, Maney [Manea], Cambridgeshire, to Charles Metcalfe of Wisbech St Peters, Cambridgeshire, gent (1st party) as trustee for the mortgagee, John Palmer of Wisbech St Peters, gent. The capital sum has been repaid, in part through the sale of many of the said lands, and Palmer having since died, his widow Jane Palmer (2nd...
Dates: 14 May 1828-15 May 1828
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Lease and release, Manea, Cambridgeshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3773
Scope and Contents Under the will of Catherine Wilkinson of Upwell, Norfolk, widow, deceased, Robert Negus of Upwell, farmer (1st party) has an estate for his life in 17 acres in Cranemoor Fen, Manea, Cambridgeshire. Negus now mortgages this estate to William Pike Bays of Wisbech St Peters, gent (3rd party) in trust for Elizabeth Stevens of Wisbech St Peters, Cambridgeshire, widow (2nd party). By way of additional security, Negus further assigns to Stevens a policy on his own life which he has taken out with...
Dates: 17 July 1829-18 July 1829
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[Lease and] release, Medbourne, Leicestershire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1402
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Robert Payne of Medbourne, Leicestershire, releases to John Palmer of Long Leadenham, Lincs., and to Tobie Marston of Sutton, Northants., certain property in Medbourne. This conveyance is the release of a conveyance by lease and release. Witnessed by John Marston, V. Poxby, and William Wells.

Dates: 23 Oct. 1628
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Lease and release, Newnham, Cambridgeshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1858
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In consideration of #60, Austin Reynolds of Cambridge, baker, conveys to John Pern esq, of Cambridge, his two tenements in the parish of St Botolph, Newnham, currently occupied by Edward Morris. Lease (for six months at peppercorn rent) and release both signed and sealed by Reynolds, witnessed by John Jeffery and John Haslop, duty stamps. Release endorsed with receipt for consideration money, same date, same signatures.

Dates: 26 Jan. 1701-27 Jan. 1702 (13 William III)
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Lease and release, Newnham, Cambridgeshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1866
Scope and Contents In order to pay the debts of the late Chester Pern esq of Abington, his executor William Greaves Beaupre Bell of Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire, and Pern's brother and heir the Revd John Pern of Gillingham, Dorset, convey for #31 one of Pern's properties in Newnham, Cambridge to David King of Newnham End, present tenant on the property and the highest bidder for the same (see Doc 1864, 1865). Lease (for one year at peppercorn rent) and release of 2 pages signed and sealed by Bell (as 'William...
Dates: 11 Mar. 1757-12 Mar. 1757 (30 George II)
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Lease and release, Newnham, Cambridgeshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1870
Scope and Contents In consideration of #60, John Sharpe, butler, and Richard King, cook, both of Cambridge (devisees mentioned in the will of King's father the late David King of Cambridge, yeoman) convey to William Anderson of Cambridge, merchant, a tenement in Newnham, formerly Thomas Wendy's and more recently Chester Pern's. Endorsed on the release is a memorandum that one moiety of the above property is legally vested in the Revd Richard William Gleadowe and the Revd John Osborne Seager as trustees under...
Dates: 6 Dec. 1764-7 Dec. 1764 (Date of memorandum: 29 April 1843)
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Lease and release, Shefford, Bedfordshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.216
Dates: 17 Nov. 1767-18 Nov. 1767
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Lease and release, Somersham, Huntingdonshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1831
Scope and Contents In consideration of #138, William Piggott of Buckden, Huntingdonshire, innkeeper, and Lionel Green of St Ives, carpenter (1st parties, trustees and devizees under the will of their mother and mother-in-law Mary Piggott, late of St Ives, deceased) release to Thomas Sewell of Somersham, gent (3rd party), two dwellings with appurtenances in Somersham, lately occupied by John Barnes, in trust for Samuel Lyon (alias Brown) of Somersham, Huntingdonshire, husbandman (2nd party). George Maule of...
Dates: 4 Apr. 1803-5 Apr. 1803 (43 George III)
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Lease and release, Sutton, Cambridgeshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1790
Scope and Contents In consideration of an advance of #800, John Cawthorn of Chatteris, farmer, conveys to Henry Goode of Cambridge, gent, Revd Ambrose Goode of Terrington, Norfolk, and William Goode of Cambridge, painter (executors of the late Edward Goode of Cambridge, gent) his 10+ acres in Sutton Fen (Bedford Level Lot 3 No 4). This takes the form of a covenant to surrender by way of mortgage with power of sale, the #800 - with legal interest - being due for repayment on 18 June 1828. Cawthorn also...
Dates: 17 Dec. 1827-18 Dec. 1827
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Lease and release, Sutton, Cambridgeshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3698
Scope and Contents In 1808, Thomas Laws of Sutton, Cambridgeshire, farmer, mortgaged (in the form of a 1,000-year demise) two acres of meadow (part of six acres meadow or 'meadland') in Sutton, to Hugh Robert Evans of Ely, gent (3rd party). Laws died soon after, having named his wife Mary (2nd party) and his son John Laws (late of Sutton, farmer, 1st party) as his executors and instructed them to sell the land and divide the profits between themselves and his daughter Mary. The mortgage has since been repaid,...
Dates: 25 June 1810-26 June 1810 (50 George III)
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Lease and release, Sutton, Cambridgeshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3699
Scope and Contents In consideration of #45, Jonathan Ilett of Earith, Huntingdonshire, gent, conveys to John Lenton of Sutton, Cambridgeshire, farmer, his two acres of meadow in Sutton 'Meadlands', formerly part of the estate of John King, afterwards of the Revd Stephen Stephens and Ann[e] his wife, late of the Revd Isaac Leather, clerk, and purchased by Ilett from John Laws (Doc 3698). John Brown jnr of Earith, maltster, is named as a third party and a beneficiary under residuary uses for the purpose of...
Dates: 22 Mar. 1819-23 Mar. 1819
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Lease [and release], Wilburton, Cambridgeshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1663
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George Tookie of Ely and Mary his wife (nee Mary Kempton), niece of Gotobed East of Ely, sell to Levold Martindale of Ely certain land in Wilburton for the term of one year at a peppercorn rent to the intent that he may accept a Release of the same. Witnessed by A. Peacocke and William Marshall. Two seals are attached.

Dates: 8 Aug. 1777
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Scholfield, Alwyn Faber, 1884-1969 (Cambridge University Librarian) 5
Soames, Mary, Dame, 1922 - 2014 (née Churchill, writer, wife of Baron Soames) 5
Stevenson, Anne, 1933-2020 (poet) 5
Stokes, Sir George Gabriel, 1819-1903 (1st Baronet and physicist) 5
Thomas, Harold Beken, 1888 - 1971 (colonial administrator and historian) 5
Welch, John Hope, 1942- (poet, publisher and teacher) 5
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626 (Viscount St Alban, lord chancellor, politician and philosopher) 4
Bartholomew, Augustus Theodore, 1882-1933 (librarian) 4
Bartlett, Sir Frederic Charles, 1886-1969 (Knight and psychologist) 4
Bateson, William, 1861-1926 (biologist) 4
Blunden, Edmund Charles, 1896-1974 (poet) 4
Cambridge University Press 4
Charles, II, 1630-1685 (King of Great Britain and Ireland) 4
Churchill College 4
Cornford, Frances Crofts, 1886-1960 (poet) 4
Elizabeth, I, 1533-1603 (Queen of England and Ireland) 4
Elizabeth, II, 1926-2022 (Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) 4
Falconer, John, 1951 (Curator of photographs, British Library) 4
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