NRO G1654 Rentals Grafton Regis 1727
Tenants Name Rent Mr. Austin £2.10.0 George Bland 15s. 0d Elizabeth Bland 5s. 0d Ursula Brown 1s. 0d Thomas Clifton 10s. 0d Edward Conn 10s. 0d Robert Dawson 15s. 0d Anne Dawson 5s. 0d Finall widow £12.0.0 John Lloyd £112.0.0 William Green £3.0.0 Henry Harrold £1.15.0 Paul Hines 15s. 0d Thomas Holloway £1.0.0 Elizabeth Norman £1.5.0 Radcliffe widow 15s. 0d George Stokes £578.10.0 William Varnam 10s. 0d William Wyatt £144.0.0 John Willifer £1.15.0 John Woolhead £4.0.0 William Wright £2.10.0
All these Cottagess are valued. The Tenants doing all repairs
Tenant's Name	Dimentions		Value
George Stokes	608.2.32		£578.10.0
William Wyatt	168.1.23		£144.0.0
John Lloyd	175.1.9		£112.0.0
Finall Widow	8.0.24	mead	£12.0.0.	This being the Blackmore's Head
John Woolhead	0.3.30		£4.0.0	Cottages & small Close
Mr. Austin	2.0.11		£2.10.0
William Green	1.1.0		£3.0.0	Cottages & Close
William Wright	2.2.22		£2.10.0	The house repaired by himself when tumbling down
Thomas Holloway	0.0.22		£1.0.0	AC
Thomas Cook	0.0.20		10s. 0d	AC
Robert Dawson	0.0.15		15s. 0d	AC
Ursula Brown	0.0.17		£1.0.0	AC
John Willifer	0.2.2		£1.15.0	AC
Paul Hines	0.0.0		15s. 0d	AC
Richard Brown	0.3.0		£2.10.0	A Cottages & orchard
William Varnum	0.0.14		10s. 0d	AC
George Bland	0.0.15		15s. 0d	AC
Henry Harrold	0.1.15		£1.5.0	AC
Elizabeth Norman	0.1.1		£1.15.0	AC
Widow Ratcliff	0.0.24		10s. 0d	part of a house
Edward Conn	0.0.24		10s. 0d	AC
Elizabeth Bland	0.0.15		5s. 0d	AC
Anne Dawson	0.0.0		5s. 0d	AC
			£872.15.0
John Willifer says that Bossenham Mead is part of Mill Field - That there is no such distintion as Great Church Field & Middle Field And that Ground which goes by the Name of Church Field may be about 100 acres or more and that one of that Church Field must be that which goes by the Name of Chokes Ground
George Stokes
House & Garden	3.3.12	Pasture	£10.0.0
The Warren	2.2.21	Pasture	£2.10.0
Great Hughes	12.1.35	Pasture	£16.0.0
Little Hughes	3.0.38	Pasture	£54.0.0
Great Church Field	72.2.37	Pasture
Middle Church Field	87.0.30	Meadow & Pasture	£65.0.0
Mill Field	107.1.32	Pasture	£122.10.0
Old Park	34.0.31	Meadow & Pasture	£40.0.0
Fenn Close	13.2.20	Meadow	£13.10.0	These are part of what James Clare now holds Fenn Close Horse Close Shittam Berry Close
Horse Close	1.2.5	Meadow	£1.10.0
Shittam	6.0.10	Meadow	£6.0.0
Berry Close	10.0.29	Meadow	£12.10.0
The Dean	29.3.83	Meadow	£45.0.0
Bossenham Mead	32.3.35	Meadow	£32.0.0
Mill Mead	10.1.36	Meadow	£12.0.0
Holmans Ground	73.1.33	Pasture	£58.0.0
Lamb Ground	27.0.32	Meadow	£21.0.0
Great Gallows Mead	13.1.28		£20.0.0	Great & Little Gallows Mead
Little Gallows Mead	5.2.6
Twyford Ground	27.3.26	Pasture	£20.0.0
Leach Mead	20.0.15	Mead	£19.0.0
Dunmore	12.2.3	Mead	£8.0.0
	608.2.32		£578.10.0
This Estate is Lett all Tythe Free only a Modus paid by the Duke of £12.0.0 per. ann. The Soil is cheifly a Clay for the most part good land. The Bottoms are Wet and Rushy, If drained would be much better. The low Meadows are subject to flood, which if Banked in would be secure. This Tenant is valued Supposing to pay the Modus above.
William Wayatt
Barncroft Field	62.1.37	Arable
Upper Field	40.2.6	Arable	£132.10.0	the 3 fields
Fenn Field	53.2.3	Arable
Yardley Mill Holme	11.3.14	Mead	£11.10.0	Mill Holme & Hayward Acre
Hayward Acre
	168.1.23		£144.0.0
These Lands are good in Nature, much the same of those above, and if laid with Natural Grass would be equal value. At present the land are care, if care be taken against over cropping will continue so. In Fenn Field the Sward Ground wants draining very much being course
John Lloyd
Styles Field	120.1.17	Arable	£81.12.0	These are held by Samuel Gallard
Cow Common	46.1.32	Arable	£18.8.0
Inclosure	8.2.0	Pasture	£12.0.0
	175.1.9		£112.0.0
Part of these land are very good and part bad. If the best lands were laid with natural grass seeds, the value would increase. Some wet parts want draining.The dry land most proper for the plough, only chaning often some for clover some for Nonsuch, and the shallow parts for Cinque foin.