Reference
Z937/2/10
Title
Counterpart 14 year lease
(i) Thomas Flint Field, cheesemonger of Newgate Street, Christchurch, London
(ii) John Edwards the younger, gent of Silsoe
Rent 200 pa from 11 Oct 1819 and 50 for every acre of meadow or pasture which is ploughed, dug, broken up or converted into tillage during the term
(a) Messuage lately used as a farm house called New Inn in Flitton cum Silveshoe, late occ by John Field, then his widow, now divided into several dwelling houses occ by labourers as undertenants of (ii)
(b) Two cottages, one in Higham Gobion the other Flitton cum Silvershoe, one occ by ... Brown, the other untenanted
(c) All outhouses, barns, stables, dovehouses, hovels, gardens etc
(d) Several closes lately occ by John Field (except 15 ac known as Great Wood Close, Little Wood Close, part of Buck Grove Wood, and a ploughed field in Pulloxhill called Edens Piece, all lately exchanged by (i) for lands of Countess de Grey).
(e) 19 ac in part of Fielding Great Ground Close and Thatchy Close taken in exchange from Countess de Grey
Containing altogether 100 ac.
(ii) shall discharge the land tax on the farm, the corn rent on the Pulloxhill premises, and all parochial taxes
(ii) shall lay up in barns or set up in stacks all corn grain and hay, and the hay, straw and stover of the corn and grain will fodder beasts and cattle, and the manure will be spread where most needed
Covenants regarding death of (ii) before lease expires, upkeep of property, and other usual ovenants
Date free text
1819 December 23
Production date
From: 1819 To: 1819
Exent
1, No. of pieces: 1
Handwritten
Format
parchment
Level of description
item