HN2/B3/45/4

Letter from Thomas Parsons at Irchester [Northamptonshire] to John Thomas Green:

27 Mar 1882

From: 1882 To: 1882

"I have examined the elase sent to me a few days since as regards the quantity it is between 84 & 85 Acres, as we reckoned it when you was at Irchester. please deduct from the rent (154) what you think proper for what has been sold off viz The Pightle purchased by me a few years since, the cottages my son has just bought the rents of which you have, & the one which fell which was let at 3 there were formerly 9 cottages on the estate one falling & 3 being sold now leaves 5. Please observe Covenant 9 It is quite an unusual thing in this part of the country for the incoming tenant to have liberty to enter upon land until the expiration of the tenancy, but for one fourth of the arable land to be left for either turnips or dead fallow, the fallow to be paid for by the incoming tenant by valuation & optional on the part of the outgoing tenant whether he consumes the roots or not therefore I should like this clause struck out altogether & for the fallow to be worked according to the custom of the country & further on the Sheet annexed to draft of lease it seems right & fair on the part of both landlord & tenant to have power at the end of 7 years for either to be at liberty to give notice to leave, but still it is simply making it a 7 years lease this I think wants altering, if at the end of 6 years you see the land is not farmed in a businesslike manner then I am quite willing that you should have power to turn me out but not otherwise so if you will alter this clause to that effect I shall be obliged. To the other part of the lease I will agree & do the land to the as heretofore to the best of my ability

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Parsons, Thomas,
Green, John Thomas

estates correspondence, specific solicitors, John Thomas Green, agricultural leases, Northamptonshire farms, turnips, crop rotation, Irchester, Irchester fields