Scope and Contents Note at bottom of accounts (leaf 1v) states "All these rents are behind and due at Michaelmas -- 1669." Also a note of "Rents in Matt: Days hand p[ai]d for the yeare 1669" and including sums associated with Jo. Crawley, George Younge, Wm. Chalklay, and John Feild. Rough accounting notes on quitrents and pr. tithes (privy tithes?). Names include several associated with King's Walden: Jo: Crawley, Jo. Feild, Ed. & Jer: & Rob: Godfrey, Mr....

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Caption at top of recto indicates simply "for 72." Notes on verso indicate "Kings rent for 72," "ffeb: 2d 1673 cleerd this account," and "these were old arrears cleard now to Mich: 72."

Several of the names appear on other accounts associated with the Hale family: Sr. Ri. Spencer, Sr. Tho. Bide. Rob & Ed. Godfrey. Tho: & Jo: Young, Tho: Bigg, Tho: Rudd. Mr. Crawley, Mr. Battell.

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For £200, according to an agreement upon the mortgage of lands in Foxcott.

Andeurer in the county of Southampton is probably Andover in modern day Hampshire.

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For receipt of £25, one year's rent for land in Edworth, Bedfordshire.

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For receipt of £380 consideration money associated with the purchase of the moiety of messuage and other lands in Alvingham and Brackenbrough, Lincolnshire.

Endorsed: Generall acquittances from my Brother in law Mr. Richard Hows for the purchase of the Moyety of Alvingham Messuage &c in Lincolneshire. Also includes a line from Matthew 5:7 in Greek and crossed out.

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For £222, purchase money for messuage in the manor of Wressell.

Endorsed: A release from Will. Cowlam & Rob. Heward for the purchous monie of the lands in Wressell.

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Frances Cannon, one of the daughters of Thomas Cannon heretofore of Ickford, Buckinghamshire, received of Silvester Rumball of Ickford, Buckinghamshire a "sufficient and good security by Bond for the paym[en]t of ... a Legacy" from her father.

William Cannon, brother of Frances Cannon and executor of the testament of Thomas Cannon, sold certain lands to Rumball in order to satisfy the legacy due to Frances Cannon, according to her father's will.

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For payment of £400 for a mortgage of messuage, lands, tithes, and tenements in King's Walden.

Scope and Contents Mary Payne, widow & executrix of the will of John Payne, late of Mellbourne, Cambridgeshire. For £150, consideration money for an assignment of lease of several pieces of land (including "woodground") in Weston, Hertfordshire, from Mary Payne to Jeremy Elwes and Geoffery Elwes, trustees of William Hale. The assignment and payment was made at and by the direction and appointment of Henry Beecher of Weston. On leaf 1v, a second receipt from Edward...