Title:
Release in trust of land in Romford, Collier Row, Havering-atte-Bower and Hornchurch
Level: Category
Miscellaneous
Level: Fonds
RECORDS TRANSFERRED FROM THE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE RECORD OFFICE
Scope and Content:
(i) Sir Robert Marsham, knight, and Shem Bridges, esquire, the 2 senior six clerks of the High Court of Chancery.

(ii) Christopher Batt of London, merchant, and Elizabeth his wife

(iii) Sir William Coryton of West Newton Ferrars, Cornwall, baronet, Richard Wynne of Folkingham, Lincolnshire, esquire, Anthony Burren and Thomas Philp of London, merchants.

Capital messuage called Brickhills and 11 closes called Sneales Mead, Tings Mead, the two Hopkins hills, the two hilly fields, Barley Field, Bawdswell Field, Pond Field, Stable Field and Orchard Field (53 acres), commonly known as Brickhills farms, late in tenure of Jervase Cartwright, gentleman, and now in occupation of Robert Fisher, gentleman;
cottage late in tenure of Daniel Small and now in tenure of Chapel Warden of Romford;
messuage (20 acres) in occupation of Daniel Small;
messuage and app. closes called Drywoods Field, Cheese Cross Field, Crabtree Field, Little Slip, Hilly Field, Long Slip, Round Field, Havering Field, the two Brickhill Fields and the ground where woods were lately stubbed (44½ acres) known as Cheese Cross Farm, in occupation of Thomas Pounsett;
parcel of woodland (7 acres);
four fifths of 3 acres of woodland abutting east on Cheese Cross Farm, north and west on Brickhills Farm, and south on Drywoods Farm;
parcel of land whereon messuage lately stood with orchard and 7 closes formerly occupied by Thomas Stringer and now by James Jervice (26 acres);
messuage and 12 closes called Springfield Barne Field, the two Brookfields, White Bread Field, Chalke Field, Pilkintons Field, Furzey Field, Little Field, Long Field and Home Field (66 acres), known as Bush Elme farm, now in tenure of Jonathan Weed;
parcel of marshland in HaveringLevel (6 acres);
messuage and 8 closes called Stoney Field, Flatt Field, Pond Field, Three Acres Piece, Middle Field, Home Field and Longmead (48 acres), now in tenure of John Boyton;
in Romford, Collier Row, Havering-atte-Bower and Hornchurch within the liberty of Havering-atte-Bower.

Recites:

(a) decree of Chancery, 3 July 1695, in case between Christopher Batt and Elizabeth his wife and Thomas Freckleton, gentleman, complainants, and the Earl of Warwick and Holland, Lady Eleanor Richard and Lady Elizabeth Rich, his sisters, Hon. George Montague esquire, and other defendants, whereby defendants ordered to convey premises to Sir Robert Marsham and Shem Bridges, subject to trusts in marriage settlement of Christopher and Elizabeth Batt, to be reconveyed to Sir William Coryton, Richard Wynne, Anthony Burren and Thomas Philp;

(b) conveyance to Marsham and Bridges.
Dates of Creation:
6 August 1695