• Reference
    L11/16
  • Title
    Lease (6 yrs.) Rents, convenants & agreements. Rent: 80 (i) A. Countess Dowager of Kent. (ii) Wm. Fowler of Meppershall, gent. Woodhall Grange & app., lately occ. Jn. Barnard, gent. (All timber res. to (i) & all 'Elderntrees, Willowtrees, Sallowes and Orles bushes & quicksetthedges', & rt. of way & hunting, hawking & fowling rights to rt. of (i). Rent to be pd. at house of (i) in Wrest. (ii) to keep in repair, including pigeon house, Cotts & hovells, and to 'preseve a good stock and flight of pigeons within the dovehouse... and shall provide one or more Saltstone...& other necessar- yes for the use & preservacon of the said pigeons.' (ii) to leave Dovehouse in good repair well-stocked with pigeons, and to leave all fittings includings settles, cupboards & tables. (ii) to apy 5 for pasture turned into tillage and vice-versa and to leave '60 storiers, waners or stadles per acre in woods & coppices. (i) has rt. to enter to search for 'decayes' within 2 mths. (ii) to repair or forfeit 5. (ii) not to burn trees or bushes for making 'Mault to sell'- only to use for fuel & to have hedgeboote of bushes & thorns, stackeboot, eitherboot & fireboot.) No witnesses. Fragment of signet seal (applied)
  • Date free text
    1 May 1676
  • Production date
    From: 1676 To: 1676
  • Level of description
    item