Totternhoe, Bedfordshire Beggers Busshe 1548
The Will of Cristopher Hensman of Toternehoo made 30 Nov. 1548 and proved 13 June 1549 left to his wife his house and copyholding for the term of her life, with reversion to a William Hensman son of John Hensman. He then gives “To George George and to William George 2 ewes and 2 puxes and three acres of tilth above Beggers Busshe, also a head acre beneath Ychling [Icknield?] Way to be sown at her cost, and to remain in the executors’ hands and not to be delivered nor divided until they come to lawful age or are married”. The remaining bequests are a cow and small amounts of grain to be delivered by his wife, “at Michaelmas next coming, if it can be spared, otherwise at Michaelmas twelvemonth”.
Totternhoe is near the Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire borders in the lowlands of the Dunstable Downs close to Eaton Bray, Edlesborough and Stanbridge with Dunstable about 3 miles away. As well as agriculture there were stone quarries in the medieval period.
Sources
Bedford Record Office ABP/R12/71
Search online <http://blars.adlibsoft.com/form.html> accessed 21.08.08
Totternhoe Parish History
< http://www.totternhoe.com/node/2 > accessed 05.03.11
‘Parishes: Totternhoe’, A History of the County of Bedford: Volume 3 (1912), pp. 447-451. URL: <http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42463> Date accessed: 05 March 2011
Bedfordshire County Council
Posted: March 13th, 2011 | Filed under: Places | Tags: Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Totternhoe, early sites | No Comments »
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