Catalogue description The John Marsh Collection of Title Deeds relating to the Hoare family estates in Wavendon and Aspley Guise, Beds

This collection of deeds relates to the Hoare family estate in Wavendon. Most are connected with the estate purchased by Henry Hugh Hoare from Lord Charles Fitzroy, 2nd son of the Duke of Grafton in 1797 (D168/5) which had passed successively through the Farr, Selby, and Shuttleworth families. Other purchases made by Henry Hugh Hoare are also to be found here, notably an estate of the Gregory family (D168/37/2) bought in 1808. Inevitably there are some deeds, catalogued last, relating to properties which became part of the estate, but the dates of acquisition of which are uncertain

Note on provenance: These deeds formed part of a large accumulation purchased by the donor from a Dulwich junk dealer and were believed to have derived from the offices of a London solicitor. It seems possible that they strayed from Messrs. Tweedie, solicitors, of Lincolns Inn Fields whose deposit of other Wavendon deeds of the Hoare family 1616-1826, (BRO ref. D118) overlaps noticeably with the documents catalogued here. Later Hoare deeds from the same source are catalogued as D/X 589/2

A summary chronological list of the deeds was made in the 1960s by Heritage Documents, and they were received in bundles arranged mainly in that order

D168/1-6 Whole estate

Purchases etc. by the Farr Family

D168/7 Messuage, 3 closes, 1 pightle (occup. Robert Greene)

D168/8 Various pieces in common fields (occp. Thomas Dennett)

D168/9 The Grange and lands in the common fields

D168/10 Cottage called Nixons

D168/11 Various pieces in the common fields

D168/12 Messuage, 2 cottages and 116a

D168/13 20a. on Wood Leys

D168/14 Normans Spinney

D168/15 Messuage, cottage and malthouse in Green End and c.123a

Purchases etc. by the Selby Family

D168/16 Messuage and 22a. in Nth. & Lt. Crawley, Wavendon and Hardmead

D168/17 Close called Liveings Leyes, c.2½a

D168/18 1r. in Woodfield

D168/19 2a. meadow in Throughlongs

D168/20 Third part of the Earl of Devonshire's manor, Wavendon, and various pieces in the open fields

D168/21 Messuage and 2a. at Green End

D168/22 Messuage (occup. John Collins) and various pieces in the open fields

D168/23 Cottage called Gostlies and ½a

D168/24 Bacon Selions, c.10a

D168/25 The Slipe, c.½a

D168/26 Cottage in Wavendon (occup. Charles Aldwinckle)

D168/27 15p. 110ft. of pasture

D168/28 Messuage, cottage, and various pieces in the open fields of Wavendon

D168/29 2 Messuages in Wavendon [one in Green End] and 1½a

D168/30 3 cottages and pieces of land in Wavendon

Purchases etc. by Robert Shuttleworth

D168/31 2 messuages at Cross End

D168/32 c.2a. in Wavendon

D168/33 99a. 2r. in Lowfield and a close called Joiners piece

D168/34 Farmhouse and c.180a

Purchases etc. by Henry Hugh Hoare

D168/35 Wood called Highwood, Heywood, c.31a. and Wood Leys 4a.3r.9p

D168/36 Glovers pightle and other closes in Wavendon

D168/37 Gregory estate in Wavendon (and Aspley Guise)

D168/38 Blacksmith's shop and land in Cross End

D168/39 Moiety of woodland and pasture etc. in Wavendon

Leases by Hoare Family

D168/40 Farmhouse and 87a. 3r. 15p

D168/41 Cross End Farm

D168/42 Home Farm

D168/43 Fenn Farm

D168/44 Eagle House Farm

D168/45 "The Leather Bottle" Inn

D168/46 Church End Farm

D168/47 Deeth Farm

D168/48 Wainclose Leys c.12a. 3r. 33p

Other Deeds

D168/49 Doggett farmhouse

D168/50 13½a. in Wavendon

D168/51 Messuage in East End and 22a. in Wavendon and Aspley Guise

D168/52 Various pieces in the common fields of Wavendon

D168/53 Messuage in East End and c.10p

D168/54 Cottage at Green End

D168/55 Messuage and c.10p

D168/56 Receipts for legacies under will of Mary Page

Marsh, John, CBE, DSc, CMIM

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