--Grafton Estate--Stoke Bruerne Survey 1757

NRO G3885
Stoke Bruerne Survey 1757
Tenant John Brittan Tenant at Will at £49.5.0 per ann.
No		Acres	Value per acre	Total value	Observations
31	A good stone house 3 barns stable garth & home close	1.1.22		£2.0.0	The buildings in good repair none of the Inclosures should ever be ploughed.
38	Two cottages the Widow Cookboult & John Mayhew 2 Cow			£1.10.0	In pencil now William Brittain his son
39	Commons belong to Mayhew			£1.10.0
31	Warren Close or Bayleys Ley M.	2.2.32	£1.0.0	£2.12.6
31	Backside Close M.	1.3.6	18s 0d	£6.6.0
42	Another adjoining M.	2.0.21
31	Another adjoining M.	3.1.24
42	Town Close M.	0.2.28		12s 6d
11	Church Close the house down M.	0.3.20		16s 0d
31	Cow gate Close M.	1.1.38		£1.7.6
31	Woodfield Close M.	1.2.39		£1.12.6	Taken for the Canal
42	Hidemoor Close M.	3.014	18s 0d	£2.15.0
	Common Field land	58.3.17	8s 0d	£23.10.0
	Common Meadow Do.	12.2.11	£1.0.0	£12.10.0
				£56.13.0

Tenant John Blunt Tenant per Lease for 9 years from Lady Day 1756 at £59.10.0
No		Acres	Value per acre	Total value	Observations
35	House 3 barns stable & homestall	2.1.11		£3.0.0	The buildings in middling repair no part of the inclosure should be ploughed except the 3 closes now arrable.
22	3 Corner pightle the house Robert Gullets	0.1.38		10s 0d
23	Bayleys Lays M.	2.3.25	16s 0d	£2.5.0
35	Dovehouse Close M.	1.3.30	£1.0.0	£1.15.0
23	part of the Close exclusive of the cottage	0.2.1		10s 0d
31	Gayton Closes A.	6.2.14		£9.6.0
31	Gayton Closes A.	6.2.1
31	Little Johns Close adj. A.	5.3.14
35	Hidemoor Close P.	3.3.12	13s 0d	£2.8.0
35	Ashford Close	2.3.37	17s 0d	£2.10.0
23	Size Croftys now in one	3.1.17	16s 0d	£5.0.0
35		3.0.9	16s 0d	£5.0.0
35	[Newford?] Close M.	2.2.33	18s 0d	£2.8.0
	Common field land	66.1.31
	Common Meadow	8.2.23

Tenant Daniel Denton Tenant at Will at £60 per ann
No		Acres	Value per acre	Total value	Observations
37	A good stone house one barn & stable also a good cottage near adjoining the home close	4.0.13		£4.0.0	This tenant hath been upon the farm above 7 years and is now in arrears half a year more than any other tenants is supposed to have come upon the farm without sufficient stock, is a very indifferent manager and poor, is was likewise the last farm that was let by which means all the worst of the land was left both in the Common fields and likewise in the Inclosure and almost all the latter are a great distance from the house. Am therefore in doubt if the Common field as it is the worst and what was left by all the other tenants should not be above £6.6.0 which will reduce his rent to near £60. But I do not think it a Dear farm £60 per ann.
23	[Slys?] Close & the next now in one	1.0.1		£2.10.0
38 & 39	Home Close formerly Plowmans	1.2.35		£2.10.0
29	2 cottages 2 barns & home close late Westley's	0.2.36		£1.0.0
24	The garth at upper end of last the house down late Robert Stiles	0.1.5		5s 0d
4. 42	Cottage [pastine?] pightle now in one	0.2.32 0.1.30		15s 0d
23	Hidemoor Close M	3.1.21	13s 0d	£2.2.6
4	Ashford Close M.	3.0.5	13s 0d	£1.19.0
29	Little Pidwell P.	4.1.18	13s 0d	£2.12.6
28	Great Pidwell mark't as free. P.	6.3.18	13s 0d	£4.6.0
23 & 42	Size Crofts now in one	2.1.16 1.1.23	13s 0d	£2.10.0
4 & 37	Size Crofts now in one	1.1.13 2.2.18	13s 0d	£2.10.0
29	Way Moor	3.2.37		£3.0.0
	Common field land late belonging to several	67.1.4	8s 0d	£26.16.0
	Common Meadow	12.0.36	£1.0.0	£12.0.0
				£66.6.0

Tenant Said Denton Tenant at Will at £11 per ann
No		Acres	Value per acre	Total value	Observations
43	Serjeant's Ground	30.0.7		£10.10.0	This was supposed to be let Cheap to make some ammends. But Serjeant's ground is a Hungry Dry Beggerly soil, and with so Bad a Manager will not be improved. I therefore imagine this will do him no good even at £11 per ann.
46	Sandpitt Close	4.1.15		£1.17.0
				£12.7.0

Tenant John Grace Tenant at Will at £42.10.0 per ann
No		Acres	Value per acre	Total value	Observations
21	Good stone house 2 barns stable & home close	1.2.22		£2.0.0	Written in pencil Now widow Grace
12	Good cottage & garth late Bottoms	0.0.32		10s 0d
21	Small Close by Stimpson's cottage	0.1.6		5s 0d	Written in pencil 5.2.34 2.0.34 No.4 James 2.0.27 No.23 White 10.0.14 together & let so from Lady Day 1821 9.1.38 0.2.17
21	Poplar Close A.	2.3.5	14s 0d	£1.19.0
31	Brook Close P.	5.2.34	£1.1.0	£6.0.0
21	Penfold Close M.	3.2.10	18s 0d	£3.3.0
	4 acres in Alderton meadow M.	4.0.2	£1.0.0	£4.0.0
	Common field land	62.0.09	8s 0d	£24.16.0
	Common meadow land	5.3.09	£1.0.0	£5.15.0

Tenant Thomas James Tenant at Will at £48.6.0 per ann
No		Acres	Value per acre	Total value	Observations
4	Good house 3 barns stable cowhouse & home close	1.1.22		£2.0.0	Written in pencil Now *Robert Watson*
28	The Pightle called Little Cockshead set down as free	0.2.28		7s 6d
4	Brook Close P.	2.0.34	18s 0d	£2.0.0
17	Great Penfold	4.1.25	15s 0d	£3.15.0
17	Little Penfold	0.2.22	15s 0d	£3.15.0
4	Anr. Penfold Close Arr. should be laid down with grass	2.2.0	15s 0d	£1.17.6
	The Commons taken from Addington & Harris' cottages laid to James at			15s 0d
	Common field land	62.3.26
	Common Meadow do.	11.3.36

Tenant John White Tenant per Lease for 12 years from 5th. April 1755 at £76 per ann
No		Acres	Value per acre	Total value	Observations
17	House 2 barns stable & brewhouse with the garth & home close P.	6.3.31		£7.10.0
17	Well Close P.	5.1.21	£1.0.0	£5.5.0
23	Brook Close P.	2.0.27		£2.0.0
42	Homely Close M. & P.	3.0.10	15s 0d	£2.5.0
17	3 Penfold Closes now in one	10.0.2	15s 0d	£7.10.0
1	3 Corner Croft 0.2.21 part to Billingham cottage P.	0.2.0		10s 0d
7	Close by Gillet's cottage 0.2.04	0.2.0		10s 0d
6 42	Wren Park now in one by Mary Grace's cottage	0.2.22 0.1.29		£1.0.0
4	Woolfield Close P.	0.3.20		12s 6d
	Common field land	88.0.31
	Common meadow land	17.1.27

Tenant Elizabeth Hopson Tenant per Lease for 12 years from Lady Day 1751 at £14 said Hopson dead & a New Tenant
No		Acres	Value per acre	Total value	Observations
4	Swallow Hole Close	8.0.4	8s 6d	£15.14.6	There is no buildings held with these lands they are all pasture but always one or mored mowed. Tenant restrained from ploughing by which means they are annually improving the land is in a hungry soil and lye under the Sale Wood. N.B. Sharpe Herbert tenant of Butter Milk Hall has the remaining term of this Lease & these grounds are to be laid to his farm afterwards.
4	Sun Green Ground	9.2.14
4	Black Stockens	12.3.11
4	Do. anr. Stockens	6.3.32
		37.1.21

Tenant John Travel Tenant at Will at £10 per ann to a Close in Stoke
No		Acres	Value per acre	Total value	Observations
45	Hidemoor Close P.	3.3.38	15s 0d	£6.3.0	This tenant lives in Roade in a house of his own the Hidemoors are middling pasture or meadow the other two are a mile from Hide and lye separate from each other, the last an ordinary cold pasture over run with bushes by the Woodside, but may be let together, I apprehend at £12 per ann
45	Anr. Adjoining P.	4.3.30	15s 0d	£6.3.0
46	Sandpitt Close by partable Coppice A.	3.1.21	9s 0d	£1.10.0
47	Thorney Close by said Coppice P.	10.2.27	8s 0d	£4.4.0
	For more of this tenant see Roade			£11.17.0

Cottages in Stoke Bruerne
No	Tenants & Particulars	Acres	Value per acre	Total value	Observations
	William Billingham
1	Cottage & garden	0.021		12s 0d
	Stephen Lovell
1	Cottage part of the last			5s 0d

	Marmaduke Stimson
2	Cottage formerly Wester's	0.1.15		15s 0d

	Susan Carter, Martha Gostwick & Ben Hall
3	Said to be Town House & pay no rent	0.9.8

	Simon Harris
19	Cottage formerly Whitmay's at 7s 6d	0.0.10		7s 6d

	Robert Abby
5	Formerly Stiles, a cottage pays no rent	0.0.18

	Mary Grace
6	Cottage late Westley's	0.0.20		15s 0d

	John Gillet
7	Cottage formerly John Brittain's	0.0.4		15s 0d

	William Gostwick
13	Cottage adjoining late Bottoms			4s 0d

	Widow Dunsby
15 & 16	Cottage No. 15 & the Garth No. 16	0.1.32
	Acre in Church field Common field land two Cow Commons abt. 5s each	1.0.0		£1.8.0

	Fanny Jordan, William Wilcox
16	3 cottages, one empty pay no rent

	Robert Gillet
22	A cottage John Blunt the Garth	0.0.8		10s 0d

	Robert Webb
23	Cottage & Garth	0.1.0		£1.0.0

	Widow Wellford				Written in pencil. From [Tite] 16.1.30 Thomas Martin
26	Cottage & Garth	0.014		15s 0d
	Simon Harris Jun.
27	Cottage, garden & one Cow common	0.1.0		£1.4.0

	John Addington
27	Good cottage & Garth & one Cow Common	0.1.0		19s 0d

	Charles Abby
29	Good cottage Denton the land			10s 0d

	Francis Gostwick
34	Cottage barn & homestead	0.1.7		12s 0d

32	A cottage formerly Webbs on the [waste] above the Mill pays no rent