Reference
GK100/8
Title
Lease for 8 years
Date free text
26 Sep 1606
Production date
From: 1606 To: 1606
Scope and Content
1) Jn. Gale of Bedford, Shoemaker & Eliz his wife.
2) Wm. Newton of Biddenham Gent.
- Rooms as follows pt of dwelling ho where Joyce Gitts now dwells, Bedford.
hall house, a little buttery there & the cellar underneath the shop, the kitchen with the Chamber over it & 3 other chambers of which 2 are over the shop & entry & the 3rd is over aforesaid hall house.
Use of hovell there to lay wood & straw with all the glass, wainscott & other appurtenances
about the said chambers
as are now occ. by Joyce Gitts
Rent 30s. p.a.
Clauses granting free access to well & privy in yard 'to do theire necessarie busynes there & also to drye theire clothes there upon the hovell as often as need shall require will not dam up the light of the buttery now opening into the shop there.
nor lawful for 2) to sublet except kitchen & chamber over it for one whole year except to Joyce Gitts or to Margaret Yarrowe, widow
Mother of Joyce without 1)'s consent.
If they die they lawful to let to Joyce Gitts' children.
Language
English
Level of description
item