Reference
Z659/3
Title
Farms in Clapham
Clapham Park Farm
Lease
(i) George, Earl of Ashburnham
(ii)Elizabeth Tossell, Clapham
(i) Leases to (ii)
- messuage or public house, with outbuildings and land adjoining, in Clapham (4a 28p)
- arable and pasture land belonging
--- Far Clapham Close (pasture) (9a 3r 27p)
--- Near Clapham Close (pasture) (10a 3r 18p)
--- Near Furzens Close and barn (arable) (10a 18p)
--- Far Furzens (arable) (9a 3r 7p)
--- Three Corner Close and Spinney (pasture) (12a 28p)
--- Home Close (pasture) (11a)
--- Little Clapham Close (arable) (4a 3r 10p)
--- Great Hunts Close (arable) (11a 1r 34p)
--- Lodge Close (arable) (11a 3r 15p)
All in Clapham and with said public house contain 101a 2r 27p
Now in occupation of Elizabeth Tossell
Reserving all timber etc to (i) growing on said premises and liberty for him to enter the land to cut down trees etc, and making reasonable compensation to (ii) for any damage
Gaming and fishing rights also reserved to (i)
Term - 9 years from 29 September last
Rent - £152 p.a.
- £40 p.a. for every acre of meadow or pasture ploughed up during 1st 8 years of the term
- £80 for every such acre converted into tillage during last year of term- £40 p.a. for every acre of meadow or pasture mowed greater than half the total, or is mowed twice in one year, or mowed 2 years in succession
Also paying to (i) - 10 x the value of every maiden timber tree lopped various conditions including not subletting the said messuage 1/4th or arable to be sown with clover or grass seed every year, another 1/4 to be in fallow (which includes turnips or other green crops eaten off by sheep or cattle). To carry out cultivation in four course shift
Dung to be expended on the land. Hedges and ditches to be kept in repair.
(i) agrees to erect by 1 October 1815 a stable and small barn for use of (ii) and will put messuage in repair and also gates, stiles and fences
Whereas suit is about to be instituted in Chancery by the Rev William Pulley, of Bedford,
Vicar of Clapham, against (i), either alone or jointly with his tenants in Clapham, to compel them to pay the small tithes on their lands now is agreed that if premises become titheable, then annual rent of out of said £15 shall cease from time of next rent payment. All covenants to remain in force with respect to the reduced rent
Signature of (i) endorsed witnesses Willm M Forster M Hayward both of Lincolns Inn
Date free text
1 Mar 1814
Production date
From: 1814 To: 1814
Level of description
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