| Title | The Holland estate at Ford, Ford House and closes:
Assignment of mortgage for residue of term of 99 years by Cornelius Clarke of Norton esq. and Thomas Offley, citizen and stationer of London, to Gilbert Watkinson of Loads in the parish of Brampton yeoman, reciting mortgage by John Curtis of Ford yeoman to Robert Pennystone of East Barnet (10 May 1661), of a messuage at Ford, a cottage and croft, Barn Croft, Nick Croft, and Colepitt Croft, a parcel of meadow called Round Meadow (9 acres), the Hall Meadow, the fourth part of a meadow called Forthe Holme, and 22 acres of land lying in the fields of Ford (High Field, Nether Field, and Further Field); and a capital messuage in Ford, Upper Nick Croft, the Hall Orchard, another fourth-part of Forth Holme, the Two Ren Parkes, Broom Croft, New Close, Lower Hall Meadow, and a further 22 acres lying in the fields of Ford; and reciting an assignment to John Allwood (30 November 1674) in trust for William Allwood of Bermondsey (co. Surrey), timber merchant and brother of John; and assignment to Thomas Offley (7 July 1677) in trust for Cornelius Clarke. Watkinson is now to hold the cottage and croft, and a part of the Holme Meadow in trust for John Glew of Morewood Moor in the parish of North Wingfield gent., and the rest in trust for George Holland of Swathwick in the parish of Wingerworth yeoman. Dated 12 August |