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NRO G3885
Hartwell Survey 1757
Tenants William Brice son of John Brice Tenant to land in Hartwell & Ashton per. Leace for 9 years from Old Mich. 1755
at £46.10.0 per ann £28.10.0 in Hartwell & £18 in Ashton
No
Particulars
Acres
Value per acre
Total value
Observations
28
A good stone house one good barn & a stable & home close
1.3.0

£2.10.0
The buildings in good repair but the tenant is to have a small barn from some other farm that can be most conviently spared.
28
Great Assart next Salecy Forest
8.1.23
14s 0d
£10.6.6
28
An Assart adjoining
All above in Hartwell
6.1.22
7
High Croft Close an acre Spinney part in hand
8.1.8
10s 0d
£14.15.0 exclusive of the acre
54
1st Assart adjoining the Last
7.0.10
2nd Assart
5.0.34
3rd. do.
5.0.3
4th. do.
5.0.11
28
Common field land late Wm. Brice's the father
23.0.6
8s 0d
£9.4.0
26.3.32 William son of John Brice
But 1.3.4 is now Richard Brices




57
About 3 acres of Common field by the Church
2.2.0
8s 0d
£1.0.0
53
Common field late John Tite
11.0.13
8s 0d
£4.8.0
66
Part of the 32.3.2 formerly Richard Wynnes is 3 acres & 39p & 2.2.5 is said to be Freehold
26.3.32
8s 0d
£10.15.0

Deduct Richard Brices above
1.3.4

£52.18.6




14s 0d




£52.4.6

Tenants Richard Brice Tenant at Will at £15 per ann. To land in Hartwell late Mannings
No
Particulars
Acres
Value per acre
Total value
Observations
37
A bad house 1 barn stable & home close
0.3.21

£1.0.0

37
A Pightle by Grove furlong M
0.3.6

12s 6d
42
The 2 Mannings one arable the other meadow with a cottage near down
3.1.30
15s 0d
£2.10.0
These buildings are in very Bad Order and should never be repaired by his Grace as the land should be laid to other farms it being too small to employ a team, and it will Let for what I have set on it exclusive of the house.
42
Mannings Common field land
25.3.24
8s 0d
£10.7.0

66
Part of the 32 acres 3 rood late Richard Wynnes of which this tenant hath.
3.0.39
8s 0d
£1.6.0
28
Part of 23 .0.6 Surveyed to William Brice being 2 acres, Vid as above
1.3.4
8s 0d
12s d




£16.7.6

Tenants William Wickens Tenant per Agreement for a Lease for six years from the 5th. of April 1757 at £53 per ann.
No
Particulars
Acres
Value per acre
Total value
Observations
57
A good stone house 2 barns a stable carthouse orchard and home close. M
6.3.13

£6.0.0

57
The Pightle adjoining M
0.1.20

7s 6d

New Close formerly Open field land but now Inclosed
1.3.24

£1.10.0
57
2 Pightles by Wellis's Common field
0.2.14

16s 0d
57
0.1.15

29
Spinney Wood Coppice
0.3.16

5s 0d
27
A piece in Lord Halifax's Pightle
0.0.4

57
Close by Nuns Leys
6.2.38
15s 0d
£5.0.0
21
Assart by Salsey Forest
7.0.34
14s 0d
£11.18.0
20
Another Assart
10.0.9
21
Common field late Thomas Churches
10.2.2

32.8.0
57
Ditto William Churches the whole about 35.2.10 but 2 acres & 2 roods upwards let to William Brice
33.0.0
8s 0d
29
38 acres of Common field late Ann Church
38.1.12





£58.4.6

Tenants William Travell Tenant at Will at £31.11.6 per ann
No
Particulars
Acres
Value per acre
Total value
Observations

(To the Town ) (Windmill) (Town)



Notes written in italics are notes made in pencil at a later date
39
(A good stone house) (2 barns stable) & orchard
6.0.0

£6.10.0


And 2 home Closes and also a cottage



This is in good repair and let to the full Value a very good Tenant and pays his rent although it's visable it is the Dearest let of any in Hartwell

No. 35 in the said fields Blunt




19
Dry Close arrable should be laid Down Blunt
2.0.18
15s 0d
£1.10.0
19
A cottage garden yard late Churches Brierly
0.1.22

12s 6d
19
A Close next Grove Close Ground meadow Now Windmill
2.2.28
£1.0.0
£2.12.6
19
Common field late Joseph Churches
6.1.31
8s 0d
32.10.0
39
Do. late Robert Travells
44.2.20
8s 0d
£17.16.0


62.0.39

31.12.0

Tenants William Brice Tenant for 12 years from Mich 1751 at £49 4 0 per ann to a farm in Hartwell Ashton Roade & Piddington
No
Particulars
Acres
Value per acre
Total value
Observations
18
A good house 2 barns stable & woodhouse
7.2.29

£8.0.0
The buildings in good repair a very good tenant and the farm will certainly improve at least £10 per ann. The 2 assarts lay full 2 mile from him and are let again by the tenant and therefore should be taken from him and let to his Under Tenant.
19
The cottage No.17 & the 2 home closes



18
A Close adjoining Nuns Ley Close
4.0.34
16s 0d
£9.4.0
18
A Close adjoining Nuns Ley Close
4.0.9
18
Grove Piece
3.1.21
22
A stone and thatched cottage a stable & close adjoining
1.2.28

£2.0.0
18
Letches Close
2.2.4

£2.10.0
41
Pound Close the cottage down
1.1.16

£1.2.0
43
One acre part Roughead Close the house down
1.0.0

18s 0d
18
Common field land late Alex Brices
54.2.33
8s 0d
£21.16.0
43
Part of the Common field late Roughead's the whole is 17.1.22 of which this tenant hath.
10.2.34
8s 0d
£4.5.0
49
Common field land formerly part of Bosenham Mill
3.3.36
8s 0d
£1.11.0

Five Assarts laying between Salsey Forest & Eckley Lane in the Parish of Piddington & Let to an Under Tenant
15.1.23
11s 0d
£8.5.0




£60.12.0
59.11.0

Tenants William Blunt Tenant at Will at £44.12.0 & £1.12.6 for Churches Homestead
No
Particulars
Acres
Value per acre
Total value
Observations
28
A stone house 3 barns 2 stables and a cottage late Brown's & yard late Bolton's
0.2.0

£1.0.0
This an extraordinary good Bargain and may be Advanced near £10 per ann there is a great number of buildings none of which should be kept up per Landlord but those he lives in and although he has five barns refused to part with one small one to John Brice. N.B. Jeffes Close and all the Inclosed arrable by Town should be laid down with grass seeds and continue pasture.
29
Homestead late Ann Churches the barn down and the house in bad repair and not let to him
1.2.21

£1.12.6
24
A very good cottage & close fomerly Bolton's
2.0.0

£2.10.0
45
A very good stone house 2 good barns a stable & home close late Hacket's
1.0.11

£1.10.0
45
Grove Close
3.0.5
£1.0.0
£3.0.0
45
Jeffes Close arable should be laid down.
3.3.27
15s 0d
£2.17.6
28
Assart above the Green
5.2.15
15s 0d
£12.7.0
28
Do. An Assart adjoining
10.3.39
28
Common field formerly Bolton's
23.1.35
8s 0d
£29.4.0
48
Do. late Mr. Hacket's
43.3.10

Do. George Thomlinson's
5.1.23

Do. part of Eliz. Chevell's
2.1.6


103.1.32

£54.18.6

Tenants Widow Richardson Tenant at Will at £14.14.0 per ann.
No
Particulars
Acres
Value per acre
Total value
Observations
20
A small stone house barn stable & home close late Churches
1.2.6

£2.0.0
These buildings are small and when ever she leaves it the land should be let to other tenants which it will do for the same Rent exclusive of houses she should be oblidged to lay Rougheads 3.1.25 down with grass seeds
26
Dyners Close the building down
2.0.3
16s 0d
£1.12.0
43
Part of Roughead Close Arr. Should be laid down
3.1.25
15s 0d
£2.10.0
20
Common field late Churches
13.0.20

£5.4.0
43
Part of Rougheads 17.3.21 of which she hath 9.0.7. Acres
9.0.7
8s 0d
£3.12.0




£14.18.0
William Church Tenant at Will at £2 per ann
7
2 cottages on the Green & the Close on let to
0.0.10

10s 0d
Church lives at Potterspury & lets these & should be let to the Under Tenants which may be done clear of all Taxes and repairs
8
Reuben Richardson Tenant at £2
& the other let for 15s
also the ground on which a cottage N.G. stood
7
Letches Close
2.3.26
£2.10.0


2.3.36
£3.0.0
These well worth £3.10.0 together
7
Cottage late Churches at 10s per ann


10s 0d


Tenants John Allom Tenant at Will at £1.15.0 per ann.
No
Particulars
Acres
Value per acre
Total value
Observations
56
Late William Cliffton's a Pightle the house down
0.1.14

£1.15.0
No buildings upon this and let exceeding Dear.
56
Common field land
3.1.2



John Blunt of Road Tenant at Will at £1.15.0 per ann
No
Tenants & Particulars
Acres
Value per acre
Total value
Observations
25
To a cottage & croft late William Churches
1.2.25

£2.0.0
This not let Dear being a good cottage

Mr. George Wynne
66
Pays £6 per ann for a stripe of land containing 18 pole in his garden
0.0.18

2s 0d
This rent has been paid many years and the ground is of no use but to his land

Widow Chapman
2
A cottage on ye Green at 5s per ann


5s 0d


John Malling
3
A very good stone house a small Stable and wood house at 15s per ann


15s 0d


Mary Palmer
4
A cottage pays no rent at present





John Capon
5
A cottage on the Green


2s 0d


Sarah Clark
6
A cottage on the Green


5s 0d


Absolam Conquest
28
A small cottage next Blunt's


5s 0d


Edward Abby
16
A cottage & 6 pole of land
0.0.6

6s 0d


Jane Green
30
A cottage & garden in the street
0.0.19

£1.0.0

26
And a cottage on the Green





William Geary
44
A cottage by the Park
0.0.17

4s 0d


John Harris late Thomas Churches
21
A very good stone house & garth
0.12.10

£1.19.6
A good Bargain

Richard Warren
46
A cottage on the Green
0.1.10

10s 0d


Thomas Geary, Butcher
47
A cottage & shop
0.0.19

15s 0d
Dear let

Thomas Robins
48
Called the Green Man
0.0.38

15s 0d


John Rawlings
49
A cottage on ye waste


4s 0d


William Brice
52
A cottage on the waste


6s 0d


Mary Anderton
52
A cottage on the waste


1s 0d


William Hall
50
A cottage but at present pays nothing





54
Sam Goodman




A cottage


4s 0d

Richard Hale


pay nothing

Widow Cox



Benjamin Hadley





36
Late Placket a cottage on the Green


4s 0d


53
A cottage down





Tenant The Widow of Francis Tame Tenant at Will at Stoke Golding at £17 per ann
No
Particulars
Acres
Value per acre
Total value
Observations

to 2 assarts in Salcey Forest (well worth 12 shillings per acre at least)
29.3.31

£17.0.0
These close by London Road about 2 miles North of Horton and adjoining upon Salcey Forest are very convenient to be held to the Black Bull Inn and are well worth 12s 6d per acre at least, Viz £18.15.0 and I imagine may be let for £20 per ann.

Lord Halifax
A Purlieu Rent of £5 for Liberty of killing Deer and for the Game in the Purlieu's £5.0.0

A Rent of £1.13.7 in Mr. Stainsby's rentall but cannot tell for what

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