• Reference
    L14/70
  • Title
    Lease (counterpart) for 10 yrs,; rent p.a. 160 & 12 young pigeons; Amabella, Dowager Countess of Kent Dan. Brace of Pegsdon, gent. -- a farm in Over Stondon, occ. Ric. Lilly, then Jn. Walker decd.; 60 ac. in the fields of Over and Nether Stondon, Shillington and Meppershall; purchased by (i) from Thos. Laurence; landlord reserves timber; his servts. to enter fallow fields acc. to custom of country to prepare for sowing at Lady Day before expiry of lease; tenant to maintain hedges and ditches & enclosures, maintain springs in woods, have customary lopping of trees, pay ' all scotte lotte taxes assessments and impositions', pay 5 per acre if pasture converted into tillage, to have allowance for gateboot and stileboot; witn. Thos. Jones, Wm. Southwood, Geo. Noble; seal on tag: (conv.)
  • Date free text
    20 March 1661-1662
  • Production date
    From: 1661 To: 1662
  • Language
    English
  • Level of description
    item