Reference
X273/36
Title
Agreement to lease for 12 yrs.: £118 + £10 per acre ploughed
(i) Jn. Kentish of St. Albans esq. (on behalf of self, Ralph Smith, Mat. Kentish, Wm. Kentish, Josh. Iremonger Kentish, Jn. Kentish, clerk, Ralph Thrale Smith);
(ii) Wm. Lincoln of Campton, farmer; -- The Burystead farmho; old enclosures all as before; ex.Long Severals, 7½ a; Allotments under enclosure award; School close, 2 a.; A piece adj., 2½ a., given by Sir Geo. Osborn in exchange for Long Severals; Tenant to do repairs (rough timber being found, but tenant to pay for cutting & carting); no cross-cropping; no right to timber or lop; hedges not to be new-made under 9 yrs.; ditches to be cleaned; crops to be stored in barns; dung used on farm; 1/3 fallow; re-entry in last year in land sown with Lent corn & fallow to plough, also convenient house & stable-room; to pay parochial and other taxes except land tax, quit rent, and the 10s. for bread; Witn. J. W. Cowper & his clk., Sol. Burr.
End.: Wm. Lincoln, nephew, allows uncle's exor, Wm. Squire of Shefford, miller, to take over.
Date free text
1799, 1805
Production date
From: 1799 To: 1805
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