| Title | Lease and release and quitclaim (1) Benjamin Bond Hopkins of Grosvenor Square, Middlesex, esq., and George Bristow of Threadneedle Street, London, esq., his trustee, (2) Thomas, Earl of Ailesbury. |
| Description | Part of the manor of Wexcombe cum Wilton lying in Wilton and West Bedwyn; dwellinghouse, farm and lands in Wilton in parish of Great Bedwyn (7 yardlands or 194 a.) farm and lands in Wilton occupied by John Edwards (9 yardlands or 218a.); Shepherds Mead (2r.12p.), 2 cottages and gardens in Wilton, tenement and garden at East Grafton and 26 a. in Great Bedwyn. Rents of 28s. 3d. in Little Bedwyn, Wilton and West Grafton, East Grafton, Stock and Ford, Great Bedwyn and Wexcombe; West Grafton farm and lands (formerly Durnford's) i.e. Peare close (1 a.), Bushey Leaze (3 a.) Broad Mead (5a.), Strapp paddock (120 p.), Penn Meads (5 meadows, 9a.), Thorney Down Close (½a.), 9a. arable at Thorney Down, 23a. arable and pasture enclosed from the Heath, the Marsh, (6a.), 1a. meadow in Southfield, 48½a. of arable in Northfield, 43½a. arable in Southfield, 13a. arable in Hasell Ditch field in West Grafton, 1 croft of arable in Burbage (3a.), Stoner pasture (1¼a.), 4a. arable in Hasell Ditch, Burbage, 8a. in East Clay; house and 2 closes of pasture (6a.) 1a. meadow, 6a. arable in West Grafton common fields, rent of 2s.6d., 2a. of arable in Bedwyn common field (Costowe), 6a. arable in commonfields of Great Bedwyn and Stock; annuity of £24 from West Grafton lands.
Consideration, £13,000 to Hopkins who releases all manorial and other rights as lord of manor of Wexcombe and Great Bedwyn to (2). |