Reference
P76/3/11
Title
Agreement:
1) Philip Birt, clerk, Rector of Blunham
2) Samuel Sandon of Blunham, yeoman
Lease by 1) and 2) from Lady Day next for 3 years, of:
- the Rectory or Parsonage of Blunham (excepting and reserved to 1) all manner of tithes and offerings within the Division of Mogerhanger, together with all profits from mortuaries, marriages, burials, churchings and christenings, as also excepted the inward parlour with closets in the Parsonage House at Blunham, the room over the Hall there and Closet, the Nags stable, coach-house and wood-barn lately erected, and also all timber trees growing upon the parsonage glebe with liberty to cut and carry away the same), for the above term provided that 1) shall so long live and continue as Rector of Blunham.
Annual rent: 122 payable to 1) at the Vicarage house at Flitton by equal half-yearly payments at Michaelmas and Lady Day Covenants by 2) to pay rents according to agreement, to pay all rates and taxes except Land Tax; to repair all the thatching and clay walling belonging to the premises (damage done by violent Hurricanes & fire only accepted) and to leave them in sufficient repaire; To keep a bull & board for the use of the parishioners of Blunham and Moggerhanger; to provide the accustomed quantity of wheat and malt for the processioning, provided the Hay be tithed in the middle of the meadows and not otherwise; to perform four days work of carriage with his wagon and horses whenever required by 1) provided it be not in Hay Time or Harvest; to pay the curate of Blunham retained by 1) such stipend or salary by quarterly payments as 1) shall direct in writing, such payments to be deemed a part of the annual rent; 2) not to sub-let any part of premises or to convert to tillage any other part of the glebe that is arable without the written consent of 1); to manure the land in a good and husbandlike manner during the term, and to leave it "in as good Heart and condition as the best Farmer in Blunham doth or shall keep his Land".
Whereas 2) received the tithes of 29a. 0r. 3p. of Tilth Grain and of 26a. of Brache or Edge grain, being tithes of part of the glebe, 2) agrees to pay at the end of the term tithes in kind of equivalent value or (if he be removed when no crop is sown or if it be insufficient) in money at the rate of 4s. per acre for Tilth grain and 2s. per acre fro edge grain.
2) to leave all dung that shall be made in the last year of the term in the Parsonage yard for the use of 1) and to be paid for it in money.
1) covenants to permit 2) to enjoy the premises without interruption etc.
2) to take for his own use all grain as by ordinary course of Husbandry shall be by him sown.
[clauses re death or resignation as Rector of 1)]
no witnesses or signatures.
Date free text
21 Dec 1744
Production date
From: 1744 To: 1744
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