HN2/B3/45/11

Draft Lease

4 Jul 1882

From: 1882 To: 1882

Parties: (i) John Hatfield Brooks of Flitwick, esquire; (ii) Thomas Parsons of Irchester [Northamptonshire], farmer Operative Part: - (i) leased (a)-(b) to (ii) for 14 years from 29 Sep 1881 at 154 per annum rent plus an additional 50 per annum for every acre in excess of the current number of meadow or pasture ploughed up and converted to arable without written consent of (i); also an additional 10 per annum for every acre of arable land sown with white straw, grain or corn two years in succession without for one whole summer sowing with turnips, tares, beans, peas or clover without written consent of (i); tares etc. to be eaten on the premises and not elsewhere with only up to half the amount sown with clover to be mown for hay and then not more than 8 acres in a year Property: (a) farmhouse, outbuildings, homesteads, pightles, closes, pieces of inclosed arable and pasture totalling 86a 1r 12p in Irchester in occupation of (ii); (b) four cottages in Irchester Covenants: - detailed covenants as to management of the farm, crops etc.

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Parsons, Thomas,
Brooks, John Hatfield

husbandry - theory and development, crop rotation, agricultural leases, Northamptonshire farms, straw, wheat, barley, turnips, tares, peas, beans, clover, Irchester