The Bargain at Kintbury

[Jill]

I've been looking at a Berkshire ancestor's will of 1757 and am puzzled by what is meant by "the Bargain at Kintbury aforesaid called Slades".

Any ideas welcome.

[Phoenix]

It's always dangerous to assume anything. but it sounds like a property acquired by "bargain and sale"

[Jill]

Thankyou, that's not a term I've come across before Phoenix, I'm off for a quick google...

[Nell]

Or it could be a variant of "biggin" an old name for a cottage.

[Jill]

Another term I hadn't heard before - thankyou Nell

[JessBow]

I think Slades is probably a property/building/house in Kintbury, although I guess you knew that.

[Jill]

I had a bit of a google, there's a Slades Hill several miles away, but too far to be "at Kintbury". He left property at Ecchinswell, Boxford & Woodhay too.