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Collapse DEX1379 - Deeds and papers relating to property in Enborne, Newbury, Speen and Thatcham, belonging to St. Bartholomew's Hospital CharityDEX1379 - Deeds and papers relating to property in Enborne, Newbury, Speen and Thatcham, belonging to St. Bartholomew's Hospital Charity
1 - Counterpart lease for 21 years of 8½ acres of arable land lying dispersed in East Field, Newbury (locations described); 16 acres of arable land dispersed in West Field, Newbury (locations described); and a close of arable land (2 a.) in Enborne.
2 - Counterpart lease for 11 years of a messuage and farm called Bartholomew's Farm, a messuage near the farmhouse, part of a little close adjoining the farmhouse, lately separated from the rest of the close by a brick wall, a close of arable land called Camp Close (11 a.), a piece of meadow ground called the Crooks (4 a.) in Northcroft Mead, 11½ acres arable land and 1 acre meadow ground (called Catts Barn) in East Field, and 22 acres arable land and 1 acre meadow ground (formerly arable land) in West Field, all in Newbury; and a close of arable land (2 a.) in Enborne
3 - Counterpart lease for 21 years of a close of arable land (2 a.) in Enborne, a 'voyde peece of ground' with a newly built house in Northcroft Lane, Newbury, 6½ acres of arable land in East Field, Newbury, 4 acres of arable land lying together near Garford Hedge in West Field, Newbury, and 1 acre of arable land called Goldwell Acre in Speen Field, Speen, adjoining the king's highway on the north and Goldwell Ditch on the south.
4 - Lease for 80 years of a messuage lately built on a parcel of empty ground on the west side of Merryhyll Strete, Newbury.
5 - Lease for 21 years of two closes of pasture at 'Barthilmewes', one adjoining Sandleford Lane on the west, the East Field on the east, a tenement on the north and a close on the south, the other adjoining the Fairclose on the north and the Marsh Lane on the west; 4 acres of meadow ground by Kinges Ditch in the West Field, and 7½ acres arable land in the West Field; and a dyehouse and backside in Northcroft Lane; all in Newbury.
6 - Counterpart lease for 21 years of a messuage (formerly part of a barn) and garden plot [in Newbury].
7 - Counterpart lease for 21 years of a dwellinghouse (formerly part of a barn called Barthilmewes Barne), in Newbury, at the south end of a ground called the Barne Haise, that part of the Barne Haise lately converted into a garden plot, and a right of way to the dwellinghouse throughout the remainder of the Barne Haise.
8 - Counterpart lease for 21 years of lands called Barthilmewe Lands in Newbury, adjoining land belonging to a tenement called Farnams Moore on the north, a river called the Washe Water on the east and a common called the Washe on the west.
9 - Lease and counterpart lease of a messuage on the west side of Bartholomew Street, Newbury.
10 - Lease for 21 years of 12 acres of arable land dispersed in the West Field, and 2 acres of arable land lying together in the East Field, Newbury.
11 - Leases and counterpart leases of two closes of meadow or pasture on the west side of Newtown Lane, bounded by Monckton Lane on the south, and 2 acres of meadow ground in Northcroft Mead, abutting on Goldwell River on the north, 1646 and 1665.
12 - Lease for 21 years of messuage and plot of meadow ground in Northcroft Lane, Newbury.
13 - Counterpart leases and part (damaged) of original lease (1692) lease of a close of pasture ground at 'Barthilmewes', Newbury (3½ a.), adjoining the Fairclose (later the Horse Fair Close) on the north east and the Wash Lane on the west, 4 acres of meadow ground by Kings Ditch in the West Field, 7½ acres arable land in the West Field, and a garden plot in Northcroft Lane, all in Newbury.
13A - Part of lease of the same
14 - Deed to create a tenant to the precipe and lead the uses of a fine and common recovery of five messuages on the north side of Norcrofts Lane, Newbury.
15 - Lease and counterpart lease of a parcel of meadow ground called the Hooke (2 a.) in a common meadow in Newbury called Northcroft.
16 - Lease and counterpart lease of a close of pasture at Barthilomews, Newbury, adjoining Newtown Lane on the west and the East Field on the east.
17 - Counterpart leases of a close of meadow or pasture ground (formerly an orchard) (1 a.) in Newbury, near Tanne Bridge leading to the West fulling Mills, with a dye-house and peat house erected thereon between 1664 and 1740.
18 - Counterpart lease for 31 years of a messuage and garden at the upper end and west side of Bartholomew Street, Newbury, adjoining a house called Bartholmewes Farme on the south and the highway to Enborne on the north.
19 - Counterpart lease for 21 years of a butcher's stall in Cheape Street, Newbury, near the Guildhall.
20 - Counterpart lease for 21 years of a butcher's shop on the bridge, and a butcher's stall in the Butcher's Shambles, both in Newbury.
21 - Counterpart lease for 21 years of a messuage in Newbury adjoining a common called the Washe.
22 - Order by mayor and corporation of Newbury that the master of St Bartholomew's Hospital should let property previously leased to Mr Joseph Pearse, giving the latter first refusal.
23 - Lease for a year (release missing) of two messuages on the north side of Northcott (sic) Lane, Newbury.
24 - Counterpart lease for 21 years of a messuage on the west side of Cheape Street, Newbury.
25 - Lease (1742/3) and counterpart leases of several (probably six) messuages lately erected in Northcroft Lane, and a little close of meadow ground in Northcroft Lane, with a right of way reserved by the hospital, all in Newbury.
26 - Leases of four acres of arable land dispersed in the East Field, and nine acres dispersed in the West Field, all in Newbury.
27 - Counterpart lease for 11 years of three acres of arable or pasture land lying in one piece in East Field, Newbury, adjoining Newtown Lane, and three and a half acres of meadow ground adjoining the same land and shooting on a place called Jacka Lents Hole.
28 - Counterpart leases of a close of arable land called the Horse Fair Close (4 a.) in Newbury, used as garden ground in 1756, and adjoining Wash Lane on the west, Newtown Lane on the east, and a piece of garden ground called Black Stream on the south.
29 - Lease for 21 years of a recently erected barn, yard, backside and garden on the north side of the Fair Close, Newbury.
30 - Lease and counterpart lease for 21 years of a messuage on the west side of Cheap Street, Newbury.
31 - Lease and counterpart lease for 21 years of a messuage and garden in Northcroft Lane, Newbury.
32 - Lease and counterpart lease for 21 years of a messuage at the upper end of Bartholomew Street, Newbury [possibly that conveyed in D/EX 1379/18.]
33 - Counterpart lease for 21 years of a close of meadow or pasture called the Cheese Fair Close, at the upper end of Bartholomew Street, Newbury, adjoining Newtown Lane on the west and the East Field on the east.
34 - Counterpart lease for 21 years of an acre of arable land called the Unknown Acre in the upper furlong of East Field, Newbury.
35 - Lease for 21 years of a close of arable or pasture land (3½ a.) at Bartholomews, Newbury, adjoining the Horsefair Close on the north-east and Wash Lane on the west, four acres of meadow ground in West Field, Newbury, and a garden plot in Northcroft Lane.
36 - Deeds of a close of arable or pasture land (4 a.) on the west side of the lane from Sandleford to Newbury, and 4 acres of meadow ground called Nepills or Nepitts Mead in East Field, all in Newbury.
37 - Lease and counterpart lease for 21 years of a messuage and little plot of ground adjoining, in Bartholomews, Newbury, between Newtown Lane and the lane leading to "Newbury Wash" [Wash Lane].
38 - Counterpart lease for 21 years of a messuage and adjoining court or garden ground, at the upper end of Bartholomew Street, Newbury, adjoining the highway to Enborne on the north.
39 - Lease and counterpart lease for 21 years of a messuage at a place called Bartholomew in Newbury, adjoining Wash Lane on the west and a way from Wash Lane to East Field Gate on the north and east.
40 - Counterpart lease for 21 years of a messuage and garden on the west side of Newtown Lane, Newbury.
41 - Counterpart lease for 21 years of a messuage at Bartholomews, Newbury, on the south side of the highway from Newbury to Enborne.
42 - Counterpart lease for 21 years of four acres in West Field, Newbury, called the Gravel Pitts, lying on both sides of the highway from Newbury to Enborne.
43 - Counterpart lease for 21 years of a messuage at Bartholomews, Newbury, on the south side of a lane leading from Wash Lane to the lane from Newbury to Newtown.
44 - Counterpart lease for 21 years of a piece of meadow ground (4 a.) called Nepills or Nepitts in East Field, Newbury, adjoining land in Greenham [in the parish of Thatcham] on the east and a stream called Black Stream on the west, with the use and liberty of Black Stream for watering.
45 - Counterpart lease for 21 years of two closes (formerly one) of arable land and pasture (5 a.) on the west side of "Newton" [Newtown] Lane, Newbury.
46 - Counterpart lease for 99 years of a messuage and garden on the north side of Northcroft Lane, Newbury, adjoining the lane leading from Northcroft Lane to a place called Egypt on the east and the Baptist meeting house on the north.
47 - Counterpart lease for 21 years of a close of meadow ground on the south side of Northcroft Lane, Newbury, adjoining part of a ditch or watercourse bordering Northcroft Lane on the north, a rod yard (occupied by a basket maker) on the east, and a common meadow called Northcroft on the west.
48 - Counterpart lease for 7 years of a close of ground (formerly arable land or pasture but now converted into a garden) in Newbury, adjoining the Horse Fair Close on the north-east and Wash Lane on the west.
49 - Counterpart lease for 21 years of a piece of garden ground on the north side of Northcroft Lane, Newbury, part of which was lately converted into and used as fish pens, bounded by the ditch bordering Northcroft Lane on the south and another ditch on the west.
50 - Counterpart lease for 14 years of 7½ acres of arable land (dispersed) and two pieces of meadow ground (4a.), all in West Field, Newbury.
51 - Counterpart leases of Wash Farm (a messuage and 47a.), Newbury.
52 - Counterpart lease for 14 years of a messuage and garden at West Mills, Newbury.
53 - Draft feoffment of a piece of arable land (¾a.) in East Field, Newbury, adjoining a close called Bartholomew Close.
54 - Lease for 14 years of a messuage, garden and timber yard at West Mills, Newbury.
55 - Copy deed to lead the uses of a common recovery of a messuage in Newbury; four closes of meadow, pasture or arable land in Greenham, in the parish of Thatcham (28 a.) called Lilly Meade, two called the Gullys, and the Square close, adjoining one another, and formerly part of eight closes together called Phiswells; a piece of arable land (18 a.) in Old Field, Greenham, Thatcham; a piece of meadow ground called Roundham (9 a.) in Henwick, in the parish of Thatcham, adjoining the River Kennet on the south; and eight acres of meadow ground in Northcroft Mead, Newbury.
56 - Lease for 21 years of a piece of arable land (4 a.) in Speen Field, Speen, adjoining the king's highway from Newbury to Lambourn on the north.
57 - Counterpart lease for 21 years of a messuage in Speenhamland, 2 acres of arable land in Donyngton Furlong Field, 1 acre of arable land in Worthie Land Field, 1 acre of arable land in Whittle Field and 1 acre of arable land in Speen Field, all in the parish of Speen.
58 - Lease and counterpart leases of eight acres of arable land (parcel of 14 acres lying together) in Speen Field, Speen, adjoining the highway on the east and a footpath from Speenhamland to Bagnor on the north, and six acres of arable land dispersed in the Worthie or Worthy, another common field in Speen.
59 - Lease of the same as D/EX 1379/58/1-4.
60 - Counterpart lease for 21 years of two messuages, a gatehouse and yard within the gatehouse, on the east side of Speenhamland, in the parish of Speen, adjoining a watercourse called Harr Water or Goldwell Lake on the south.
61 - Lease and counterpart lease of a messuage divided into several tenements in Speenhamland, Speen, on the west side of the street, adjoining the messuage leased in D/EX 1379/62 on the south.
62 - Leases and counterpart lease of a messuage and malthouse (formerly a common inn known by the sign of the Antilope) in Speenhamland, Speen.
63 - Lease and papers relating to a messuage, gatehouse, yard and garden in Speenhamland, Speen, on the east side of the street, adjoining the messuages conveyed in 60 on the south, together with a second messuage on the site built between 1711/12 and 1716.
64 - Counterpart lease for 21 years of a messuage and five acres of land in Speen.
65 - Counterpart lease for 21 years of six acres of arable land in Claypitt Field, Speen, adjoining the path from Donnington to Bagnor on the north, and the Lambourn Road to the south.
66 - Counterpart leases of seven messuages in Speenhamland, an acre of arable land in Clafford Field, two acres of arable land in Donnington Furlong, an acre of arable land in Whittle Field and an acre of arable land in Worthy Field, all in the parish of Speen.
67 - Counterpart lease.
68 - Counterpart lease for 21 years of a piece of meadow ground called Prior's Piece (6 a.) in Horsepool Field, adjoining Lamborn Stream on the north, a piece of land (4 a., part arable and part meadow) adjoining the same, and 4 acres of arable land in Speen Field, all in the parish of Speen.
69 - Counterpart lease for 10 years of a messuage in Speenhamland, Speen, on the west side of the street.
70 - Lease and counterpart lease for 21 years of two messuages, a malthouse, kilnhouse, granaries and other buildings, in Speenhamland, Speen, on the west side of the street, and a piece of meadow ground adjoining the malthouse, bounded by some old posts or stakes.
71 - Counterpart lease for 7 years of the property leased in D/EX 1379/70, excluding the two messuages.
72 - Counterpart lease for 7 years of a messuage and woodhouse in Speenhamland, Speen, on the west side of the street.
73 - Counterpart leases for 14 years of parcels of land in the former common field Claypit Field, Speen, with plan.
74 - Counterpart lease for 14 years of adjoining closes of arable land (4 a.) and meadow (3 roods) called Thistle Croft, adjoining a recently inclosed piece of commonable land called Speen Lawn on the north, in the parish of Speen.
75 - Lease for 14 years of a public house called the Coach and Horses, formerly two adjoining messuages known respectively as the Coach and Horses and the Vine, at Speenhamland, Speen, on the west side of the street, adjoining a gateway, yard and outlet on the south and west.
76 - Lease for 7 years of a messuage and garden at Woodspeen, a little close nearby (2 r.), closes of arable land called Holloways or Holliwells Close (3 a.), Bar Close (3 a.) and House Close (6 a., near Wickham Heath), a piece of ground formally the site of a messuage (1 r.), and an adjoining coppice called Shuffs Coppice (4 a.), all in the parish of Speen.
77 - Counterpart lease for 21 years of a piece of meadow ground called Priors Peece (4 a.) in Horsepoole Field, Speen, abutting on Lamborne Stream; and a cottage lately divided into two dwelling houses in Greenham, in the parish of Thatcham, near the end of Cheap Street, Newbury.
78 - Lease for 21 years of a messuage in Greenham, Thatcham.
79 - Counterpart lease for 21 years of two adjoining messuages in Greenham, Thatcham.
80 - Bonds of Ralph Ball (1687), Stephen Grigg (1728) and Benjamin Segar (1731), all of Newbury, to pay rent for unidentified property.
81 - Microfilm of plans of property of Newbury Municipal Charities, 1839-1840 [N/QA 12/1].

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