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Priors Hardwick and Priors Marston

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Conveyance by lease and release from Thomas Phillips Rous, of Rous Lench, esq., to Edward, Lord Leigh, for £5900 of lands in Priors Hardwick and Priors Marston. Described as Capital messuage or farmhouse with appurtenances in Priors Hardwick adjoining to the church yard, formerly in occupation of Benjamin Goodwin, gent., then or late of William Goodwin and John Goodwin; four closes in same occupations, part of the same farm; six yard lands in common fields of Priors Marston formerly in occupation Benjamin Goodwin and William Willes the younger, then of William and John Goodwin; close of pasture and one meadow in Priors Hardwick (80ac) formerly in occupation of Thomas Goodwin and previously parcel of four closes called Behind Callens and Cockbell Hook; 35 acres of pasture in Priors Hardwick and Priors Marston in the occupation of Thomas Hinde, also part of the said four closes; 35 acres pasture in the occupation of Thomas Baseley, part of the said four closes; close of pasture and two meadows (30 ac) in Priors Hardwick formerly in occupation of Richard Washbrook, then of William and John Goodwin formerly part of five closes called the Church Closes; toft whereon formerly a capital messuage, barn and buildings stood; three closes of pasture (41 ac) in Priors Hardwick; meadow in fields of Priors Marston formerly used with the said messuage and closes, all which were formerly in occupation of John Elnor, then of Richard Willes; three cottages in Priors Marston and Priors Hardwick in the occupations of John Craner, John Jeffkins and Thomas Judge; Windmill and windmill bank in the fields of Priors Marston, with the soil on which the mill stood and turned, with all implements necessary for the same, together with land appurtenant, being two arable lands all formerly in the occupations of Benjamin Goodwin and William Willes, then of John Craner ; with all other the lands and premises of Thomas Phillips Rous in Priors Hardwick and Priors Marston