Archdeaconry of Bedfordshire
Film #1066809
Thomas Dennet
16 Nov 1641
Hi Tim
The will is dated 16 November 1641. Thomas Dennett is from Husbourn Crawley. He talks about a Ralph Snagge of Kempston and his manor house called Daubeney. There is a manor called Daubeney in Kempston. Thomas Dennett owned land, tenements, messuages, etc. in Kempston. His wife's
name is Mary. His sons are George, John, Thomas, William, and Robert. His daughters are Mary (Farr), Ann, Dorothy, Jane, and Martha. He mentions that his daughter Mary is the wife of Stephen ffarr and they have a son named John. Did you already know that? Thomas Dennett has a brother in law named Robert Souyth or Sonyth, of Buckinghamshire. I can't tell if it's a "u' or an "n" in his name. This scribe is terrible. He talks about a Ralph Comingston and a Thomas Merry. The will was written in the presence of John Brown and John Meroll. George Dennett must not be married to Elizabeth Farr yet in this will, correct? Pam
Item Refs Item Description Date/s R6/2/1/7 Demise, 26 Sep 1659
Parties:
(i) St.John Thomson of Husborne Crawley, esquire with Richard Cooper of Newport Pagnell [Buckinghamshire], draper and Richard Mowse of North Crawley [Buckinghamshire], yeoman acting as trustees
(ii) Thomas Hackett of North Crawley and Thomas Kilpin of Newport Pagnell, draper
Operative Part:
- (i) at direction of St.John Thomson granted (a)-(l) to (ii) for 10/- paid to each
Property:
(a) messuage with orchards, yards and backsides adjoining in Husborne Crawley;
(b) 5 acres of pasture adjoining (a) formerly in occupation of Richard Sadler then Henry Sadler his son, late of Mark Grey, gentleman;
(c) cottage in Husborne Crawley with garden, yard, orchard, backside and little inclosed pightle of pasture;
(d) 2 acres of leys or sweard ground adjoining (c) formerly in occupation of Thomas Smyth, now of Henry Sadler;
(e) 6a 3r 0p of arable in occupation of Thomas Keenes;
(f) 4a 3.5r op of sweard dispersed in common fields of Husborne Crawley
(a)-(f) formerly mortgaged by St.John Thomson and his father St.John Thomson to Humphrey Monoux of Wootton and reconveyed by him to (i);
(g) Great Pasture of 30 acres in Aspley Guise formerly in occupation of Thomas Dennett, now of Henry Budd abutting: N on Broadmead; S on pasture called Middle Pasture or Little Pasture of Edmund Hardinge; E on The Fenn; W on highway leading towards Broadmead
(h) Aspley Wood with two parcels of woodland called Faulkners Corner and Foxborough Hill adjoining containing 137a 0r 14p;
(i) messuage in Husborne Crawley Church End in occupation of Christopher Coates;
(j) pightle of two acres adjoining (i);
(k) one acre anciently belonging to (i) called Throughout Acre;
(l) 15 acres of arable and leys in Husborne Crawley conveyed to St.John Thomson by Richard Impey and now held with (k)
Habendum:
- to (ii) for 500 years at peppercorn rent;
- provided that if all children of St.John Thomson and Katheryn his wife, (before the youngest of the current children became 21), released to (ii) their shares in Manor of Little Linford [Buckinghamshire] and Rectory of Little Linford (as detailed in indenture of 3 Nov 1655 between (1) St.John Thomson, St.John Thomson and Katheryn his wife, Katheryn St.John, daughter of St.John and Katheryn Thomson, William, Earl of Bedford and Richard Stone; (2) William White and Jasper White, citizens and haberdashers of London, William Yarway, citizen and merchant tailor of London; (3) William Warne of London, scrivener) this demise became void
Witnesses:
- William Clarke;
- John Langford;
- John Hardy;
- [Fulk?] Senhouse
- James Johnson;
- Mark Slingsby
