| Description | i) Joseph Barnes, John Margetts, William Margetts & William Bloom gent all of St. Ives and trustees of the land to be sold. ii) John Ansley Esq of Houghton, Henry Ansley his son, Rev, Cuthbert Baines MA., Cuthbert John Baines his son, John Mann, Francis Mann his son, John Lownds, George Lownds his son, John Linsell, Edward Linsell his son, Joseph Harris, Joseph Lloyd his nephew, Henry Rugeley, Henry Rugeley his son, Edward Greene, Henry Greene his son, James Osborne, Martin Rawling Osborne, John James Osborne his son, Thomas Hutchinson his son, Samuel Allpress, James Brittin, James Beck, William Constable & Joseph Constable his son, all of St. Ives (i-ii) Property: Messuage in the Sheep Market formerly called the Cock, another messuage abutting in the Quakers Meeting Lane and used by Robert Warner as a workshop and drying shed, cottage in Poor Folks Lane occupied by Henry Richford and others and the toft adjoining it on which John Green has erected a house at one end and his father a barn at the other another cottage in the same lane occupied by Luke and now by Mark Frost, another cottage in the same lane formerly occupied by George Constable and now by widows Sisson and England Another cottage in the same lane formerly occupied by John Squire and now by William Barnaby, a new built messuage at the upper end of the Sheep Market now used as a workhouse, 3r & 32p of Ozier Holt occupied by Samuel Allpress with the inside water and rush beds leading from the corner of Mary Finders Malting to E end of Mr. Barnes' Walk, Town Close of 3a 3p lying in Pig Lane & occupied by Frances Dunthorne Robson wid, Bulls Piece of 2r 36p and abutting on the turnpike road to Somersham 1 Ley of pasture of 1r 14p lying in 'T' close and called Town Ley 5a 2r in Kings Brook Field bounded on N by land of Sarah Gifford, E by the Somersham road S by land of John Matthews & W by land of John Brown and occupied by Henry Mason and awarded to the Feoffees of the Town Land at inclosure. The churchwardens to take the rents and profits from these lands for the repair of the parish church etc. Signed Jos Barnes, John Margetts, Wm Margetts, Willm Bloom, Witness Charles Harris Memoranda on the back of release:- 1646 Thomas Cordell by will gave 20s pa to the Poor of St. Ives to be distributed on St. Thomas Day & payable out of Pratts House & Lands in Pilewell near the church, 1656 Robert Langley by will gave 40s pa to be distributed to poor widows and fatherless children in St. Ives on the 9th/11th Jan & 6s to the ringers payable out of a close near the Turnpike Of Conveyance 1 Feb 1881 i) Henry Morgan Vane official Trustee of charity lands. ii) Thomas Knights and Henry Whiteman churchwardens official trustees of the Town Estate. iii) William Wigston Warner Property messuage formerly called the Cock and another messuage in the occupation of Robert Warner abutting in Quakers Meeting Lane on S (1-iii) Agreement/conditions of Lease Thomas Newman agrees to lease the town house late in the occupation of Mr. Charles Smith from the churchwardens for 1yr for £16pa (Newman being the highest bidder). Signed Thomas Newman & Mr. Osborne & Joseph Upsher churchwardens. Witnesses. Thos Butler & John Beck. |