Title:
Marriage settlement for £45,000 (release, being deed to lead the uses of a common recovery)
Level: Category
Estate and Family records
Level: Fonds
RECORDS TRANSFERRED FROM ANOTHER REPOSITORY
Level: Series
Marriage settlement of Henry Howard, 10th Earl of Suffolk, and Sarah Inwen
Scope and Content:
(i) Henry [Howard, 10th] Earl of Suffolk, (ii) Thomas Inwen and daughter Sarah Inwen, (iii) Joseph Hucks of St Giles-in-the-Fields, Middlesex, and Thomas Hucks of St Olave, Surrey, both brewers [all as in D/DXb 68].

Chief mansion house or palace called Audley End with the park, watermill, mill meadows, oaks and horsepond (as granted by King William III to Henry [Howard], late [5th] Earl of Suffolk), in Saffron Walden and Littlebury;
messuage and farm called the Alms House (365¾ acres), in occupation of Phillip Martin;
messuage and farm called the Rost alias the Ross (363¾ acres), in occupation of William Headland junior;
messuage and farm called Pounseall alias Pounshall and lands called Kebberdies, Hallfields, New Close and Spicers Land (256 acres), with the sheepwalk, late in occupation of William Headland, deceased, and now of [blank] Headland, widow;
messuage and farm called St Ayletts (416 acres), in occupation of Robert Lagdon;
messuage and farm called Butlers, and lands called Town Lands formerly part of Cattlins Lands (245 acres), in occupation of John Headland;
messuage and farm called Little Walden Park alias The Red Deer Park (335 acres) in occupation of John Clarke;
parcels of enclosed land near the Deer Park (18 acres) in occupation of Widow Nottedge;
two messuages and farms called Westleys and The Lodge and parcels of enclosed land, with the sheepwalk (449¾ acres) in occupation of John Seymour;
enclosed land called Flat Fields and Buckneys (85 acres), and a sheepwalk, in occupation of John Sparrow;
enclosed land called the Northfield (39½ acres) in occupation of Thomas Strutton;
parcels of enclosed land being part of the Town Lands called Warners Field and Townsend Field (55¼ acres), in occupation of Thomas Penniston;
water corn-mill called Audley End Mill with closes, lands, meadows, feedings, waters, drains, floodgates,and dams, in occupation of Lawrence Fordham;
messuage and land (12 acres) late in occupation of Francis Belcham, deceased, now in occupation of William Adams;
enclosed land part of Town Lands (8 acres), in occupation of Thomas Archer, Edward Allen, and Thomas Aylett;
enclosed land part of Town Lands (21 acres), late in occupation of Nathaniel Catlins;
enclosed land part of Town Lands (11½ acres), half acre planted with osiers, in occupation of Matthew Cowell,Thomas Claydon and Thomas Dearsley;
shop and 1 acre of Town Lands in occupation of Thomas Fuller, webster;
enclosed parcel of Town Lands called Berryhills (10½ acres), in occupation of Edward Harris, webster, and John Harvey, surgeon;
enclosed parcel of Town Lands (18¾ acres), in occupation of William Lagdon, webster;
lands called Monks Downs, Maunold Mead and Long Mead (197¼ acres) in occupation of William Larkin, carrier;
enclosed parcel of Town Lands (22½ acres), in occupation of James Mool, weaver, Clement Nott, yeoman, John Pitstow, maltster, and Joseph Sparrow, gentleman;
Swan Meadow (8 acres), in occupation of John Patch, innholder;
small messuage and enclosed ground (6 acres), in occupation of James Sell;
brick kiln with the 'liberty of digging and takeing of brickearth on twenty acres of ground thereunto adjoyning', in occupation of widow Strutton;
closes, part of Town Lands (11 acres), late of Henry Smith, now in occupation of John Harvey;
closes, part of Town Lands (17 acres), in occupation of Zachariah Wyatt and John Whiskin, maltsers;
closes called Kebberdys (54 acres) adjoining Kebberdys Wood formerly of John Whitby, deceased, and now of Robert Whitby;
Ten Acre Croft and an enclosed parcel of Town Lands (19¼ acres), in occupation of Phillip Webb, yeoman;
meadow (3 acres);
all in Saffron Walden;

rectory and glebe lands of Saffron Walden in occupation of Richard Mayos and Edward Ball;
ten closes (133 acres) the chief of which late in occupation of William Humphreys and now of Henry, Earl of Suffolk;
meadow (21 acres);
Great Bradleys and other lands (256 acres), late in occupation of Thomas Buck and now of George Buck;
messuage or farm and land (220 acres), late in occupation of John Thorowgood, and now of Thomas Buck;
sheepwalk called Bouncers Walk (160 acres);
small messuage and land (6 acres), in occupation of Nehemiah Perry;
meadow (8 acres), in occupation of John Wale, innholder;
water corn-mill called Littlebury Mill with closes etc., in occupation of Robert Churchman;
land (5 acres), in occupation of George Johnson;
enclosed land (47 acres), in occupation of John Sullinge;
pasture (1 acre), in occupation of widow Stubbins;.
all in Littlebury;

manor house and farm of Little Chesterford (225½ acres), late in occupation of Reg.Timworth, deceased, now of [blank] Timwort;
messuage and farm called Little Chesterford Park (221 acres), in occupation of Thomas Reeves;
two pieces of enclosed land, late in occupation of Henry Hunts and now of his widow;
closes (14 acres) in occupation of Thomas Pomfrett;
closes (8¾ acres), in occupation of John Ridet;
all in Little Chesterford;

capital messuage and farm called Great Chesterford Park, lately disparked (400 acres), in occupation of [blank] Woodhams, in Great Chesterford [no details];

late hospital of St Leonard, with messuages and lands (202 acres), in occupation of Thomas Rickard, in Newport [no details];
pieces of enclosed land (16 acres), in occupation of the Earl of Thomand, in Newport;

manor house and farm called Great Wenden or Wenden Hall in occupation of Lancaster Richards, and land (400 acres) in Wendens Ambo;
part inclosed and part in common fields (57 acres), in occupation of John Forsham, in Great Chesterford.
[as in D/DXb 70].

Recites: intended marriage [as in D/DXb 68] and common recovery to be suffered before the end of Trinity Term 1735.
Dates of Creation:
10 May 1735
Related Unit of Description:
For the corresponding lease see D/DXb 71. For the main series of Audley End archives see D/DBy.