Catalogue description Prenuptial settlement

Godfrey Rodes of Gt. Houghton agrees with Edward Lewknor of Denham (co. Suffolk) to levy a fine and suffer a recovery for barring entails (in consideration of a marriage to be had between Godfrey and Anne, one of the daughters of the said Edward and a dowry of £600) of the manor of Gt. Houghton, 20 messuages, 500 acres of land, 200 of pasture, 60 of meadow, 200 of wood, 200 of Fyires and heathe, and eight pounds in rents in Gt. Houghton, Billiggley, Darfield and Mylnehouse. to the following uses:-

The Manor and Capital messuage of Gt. Houghton and closes called Hye Breakes, Low Breakes, the Longelandes, the hedges, the Holmes, the Broadinge end, the pigehills, Neather Kirkhills, the Whynny and Holmes, Buck Lowe and the oxe closse, hall crofts, corner breakes, cowbreakes, Shirbarrowefields, thickheads, Westowe breakes, hassocke Mynes and woods called little Park, Westowe wood and Burntwood, also the coney warren, mills called windmill and horse mill, lands called odster and vermin yard, all in Gt. Houghton, lands in Billingley, Darfield and Milnehouse to the use of the said Anne and Godfrey; concerning the residue of the estate provisions are made for securing the annual rent charges of £40 apiece left by Francis Rodes, father of Godfrey to his sons Robert and Francis, Godfrey's brothers of the whole blood.

Former reference: B5 b26.