Title:
Schedules of deeds etc.
Level: Category
Miscellaneous
Level: Fonds
RECORDS OF FINGRINGHOE
Level: Series
Manor of Fingringhoe Hall
Scope and Content:
relating to the Manor of Fingringhoe and farms called Fingringhoe Hall and the Wick
The following calendar represents a conflation of the 4 schedules. D/DU 207/41-3 were compiled in the late 18th. century and are fuller than D/DU 207/40, which was originally written in the early 18th. century but bears later notes.]

(1) 24 October 1648

Covenant for Sale

(a) Elizabeth, Countess Rivers, Richard Viscount Lumley, Henry Nevill alias Smith esq., Isaac Creame gentleman, John Harvey esq. and Francis Perkins gentleman, to George Frere merchant.

Manor of Fingringhoe and Peete

(2) Same date

Bargain and Sale inrolled

Same parties and premises

(3) 11 May 1649

Release

Same parties and premises

(4) 22 November 1669

Copy of depositions in Chancery in Godard v. Burroughs reciting Will of George Frere, dated 20 September 1655
[George Frere All Hallows Barking, born at Wickhan Skeith, Suffolk, buried at Fingninghoe, see Matthews Commonwealth probater vol. IV]

(5) 20 January 1681/2

Mortgage for £400 by way of demise for 1,000 yrs.

John Godard gentleman and Samuel Reynolds esq.

Hall and Wick Farms in Fingringhoe

(6) 20 April 1684

Copy Will of John Godard

(7) 1 January 1686/7 [1 July 1686 in D/DU 207/40]

Assgt. of remainder of mortgage term created by (5)

(a) Samuel Reynolds, (b) Elizabeth Godard widow, (c) William Sadler gentleman

(8) 17 August 1691

Further assignment of remainder of mortgage term created by (5) and assigned by (7)

(a) William Sadler gentleman, Samuel Edwards and Henry Fitzar (executors of William Sadler), (b) Elizabeth Godard, (c) Christopher Sadler gentleman

(9) Michaelmas 1704

Final Concord

John Godard plaintiff v. John Ram, wife and others deforciants.

Manor of Fingringhoe

(10) 8,9 January 1704/5

Lease and Release

(a) John Ram merchant and wife Elizabeth (widow of John Godard late of Colchester), Thomas Bayles grocer, Henry Chenery [in D/DU 207/40 Bayley and Thomas Chenery] and John Freeman gentleman (b) John Godard gentleman (son of John Godard deceased)

(11) 31 January 1704/5

Assgt. of remainder of mortgage term created by (5) with further mortgage for £118 by (c) to (b)

(a) Launcelott Pratt and wife Hannah (widow and executrix of Christopher Sadler), (b) Nicholas Freeman clothier, (c) John Godard

(12) 1, 2 February 1704/5

Mortgage for £600 by way of Lease and Release

(a) John Godard and wife Elizabeth, (b) Robert Colman gentleman,
(c) Thomas Ruse esq. and Benjamin Smith clerk.

Manor of Fingringhoe

(13) Hilary 1704/5

Final Concord

Robt. Colman plaintiff v. John Godard and wife deforciants.

(14) 20 February 1704/5

Assgt. of remainder of term created by No.5

Nicholas Freeman and John Godard

Woods called Haywood, Black Grove and Ladies Grove

(15) Same date

Merger of term of 500 yrs. created by (10)

(a) John Ram, (b) John Freeman and daughter Dorothy Freeman spinster, (c) Thomas Ruse and Benjamin Smith, (d) John Godard

(16) 2 August 1706

'Mr. Godard's additional security for £100'

(17) 18 October 1706

Mortgage by way of demise for 500 yrs.

John Godard (only son and heir of John Godard deceased) and John Beale mariner

(18) 25 January 1706/7

Assgt. of morgage created by (170 and further demise for 1,000 yrs, for 120

(a) John Beale, (b) Thomas Ruse and Benjamin Smith (trusees on behalf of John Godard gent.), (c) John Godard, (d) John Freeman

(19) 29 April 1707

Agreement for sale

John Godard and Marmaduke Rawdon

Manor and lands of Fingringhoe

(20) August 1707

'Assgt. of several mortgages and terms affecting ... premises'

(a) Nicholas Freeman clothier, (b) John Freeman and John Godard gents., (c) Marmaduke Rawdon gent., Anthony Bramston and 'Mondiford' Bramston, esquires

(21) 25, 26 August 1707

Lease and Release

(a) John Godard, Thomas Ruse, Benjamin Smith (trustees on behalf of John Godard), (b) Nicholas Corsellis esq., Marmaduke Alington gentleman, Thomas Bramston gentleman and John Freeman gentleman, (c) Marmaduke Rawdon gentleman and wife Dorothy eldest daughter of John Freeman)

Manor and lands of Fingringhoe

(22) 25, 26 July 1734

Settlement (by Lease and Release) upon marriage of Hester Rawdon with Robert Plomer esq.

(a) Marmaduke Alington, Thomas Bramston esquires, Mr. Bostock and Mr. Richard Toller and Marmaduke Rawdon esq., (b) William Plomer esq. and others.

Manor of Fingringhoe, messuages and lands

(23) 26 March 1751

Deed to lead uses of a Fine

(a) Marmaduke Rawdon and wife Rebecca, (b) Joseph Keeling esq. and wife Hester (formerly wife of Robert Plomer), (c) William Mayhew gentleman

Manor of Fingringhoe

(24) 22, 23 December 1756

Settlement (by Lease and Release) upon marriage of (a) with (b)

(a) Joseph Keeling esq., (b) Alice Slaney spinster, (c) John Keeling and Shaw King esq.

Manor and estate of Fingringhoe

(25) 19 October 1759

Deed to lead uses of a Fine

Joseph Keeling and wife Alice and William Mayhew

Part of Fingringhoe

(26) 27, 28 September 1769

Mortgage by way of Lease and Release

Joseph Keeling and wife Alice and Elizabeth Brock

Manor of Fingringhoe and farms belonging to it
Dates of Creation:
1648-1769