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Draft lease: 20 yrs.: rent p.a. 46, 36 qrts. 2 b. wheat: 49q.,1b.ma Master and Fellows of Trinity college. John Francis of Norfolk, gent. -- a farmhouse with malting and old enclosed lands at Shillington, 35 ac. 3r.; 10 ac. on Church Hill; 26 ac. in Church Bridge Field; 405 ac. in Town and Alder field; 188 ac. in Holwell; 80 ac. in Lower Stondon; the tithes of 742 ac. in Gravenhurst and 33 ac. in Upper Stondon; 9 ac. in Meppershall; except wood and underwood. Tenant will repair buildings and also chancel of Shillington church, pay taxes and rates, provide hospitality for college steward, pay 31 to vicar for his salary, maintain gates and fences, plant with quickthorn making average enclosure of 30 ac.; and keep dung on the premises; but shall not lop trees; or convert pasture to tillage. Directions as to specific crops in last years of lease.

29 Nov 1806

From: 1806 To: 1806

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Lucas,
Francis, John

wheat, gentleman, Cambridge Trinity College, Shillington farms, malting, general enclosure, tithes, general churches, general taxation, rates, steward, clergy names index, fencing, manuring, trees, SHILLINGTON, Shillington fields, UPPER STONDON, Lower Stondon, Lower Stondon fields, Upper Stondon fields, GRAVENHURST, Gravenhurst fields, MEPPERSHALL, Meppershall fields, HOLWELL, Holwell fields