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Counterpart Lease Parties: (i) Joseph Procter of Bishopsgate Street, London, snuff manufacturer; (ii) Charles Reeve of Leighton Buzzard, common brewer Operative Part: - (i) leased (a) to (ii) for 21 years from 1 Oct 1845 [crossed out and "1866" substituted] at rent of 408 [crossed out and "468" substituted] per annum Property: (a) property in Leighton Buzzard where Samuel Reeve [crossed out and William Fossey Pettit substituted] now or late carried on ["and Charles Reeve carries on" crossed out] business of a brewer consisting of brick built messuage with forecourt in front next High Street and brick and timber brewhouse and tun room with brick and tile malthouse and brick and slate stables for 6 horses and loft, counting house with room over, timber and slate cart lodge of 5 bays and double chaisehouse, cooperage, washhouse [piggery and brick builr shed crossed out] etc. with paved cellar and three arched beer vaults with yards and walled garden attached; premises extending from High Street to a back lane called Friday Lane; (b) fixed plant and utensils as in inventory; (c) Duke's Head public house, Heath & Reach consisting of brick fronted house with thatched roof, yard, stable, cart shed and woodhouse, range of piggeries and garden in occupation of William Tompkins [crossed out and "Dancer" substituted; 11 perches allotted to premises crossed out]; (d) brick and tile messuage called Cross Keys, Middle Row, Leighton Buzzard in occupation of Richard Samuel [crossed out and "Greening" substituted], with other part used as a shop and dwellinghouse in occupation of John Drage [crossed out and "Claridge" substituted] with toft of land adjoining shop on which a cottage once stood with yard and garden on other side of street behind other properties and held with Cross Keys, containing stable, brick and timber built barn and range of brick and slate calf cribs; (e) Hare & Hounds public house, Ledburn, Mentmore [Buckinghamshire], lath, plaster and bricknogged house and outbuildings with yard in front containing newly built two stall stable, hay house, coal house and gig house, thatched hovel, 2 small pieces of garden ground and paddock of pasture of 1a 0r 7p lying next to Mentmore road, all in occupation of Edward Sayell subject to two rights of way of fifteen feet width across the land to cottages at rear of paddock; (f) Sun public house, Leck End, Leighton Buzzard, being brick and tile house with large yard enclosed by folding gates containing brick and timber washhouse, stabling for 10 horses with hay lofts over a range of brick and timber buildings with tiled rooves being 2 cart sheds, coal house, hen house, wood house and 2 piggeries with pump of water and old timber and thatch barn of large dimensions, two small brick and thatch tenements adjoining public house and paddock of pasture of 1.5 acres at back, in occupation of William Simmons; (g) garden ground lying S of Sun adjoining its paddock W and street E; (h) Roebuck public house, Leighton Buzzard, abutting Jeffs or Gig Lane being brick built corner house with adjoining cottage S and communicating it, pebbled yard with cart entrance at side containing two stalled stable with loft over, three bayed, slated cart shed with pump therein and timber built and thatched slaughterhouse; on other side of yard and abutting on lane timber built and thatched coach house with loft over and stabling for 8 horses all in occupation of Elizabeth Gartside [crossed out and "John Gartside" substituted]; (i) Peacock public house in Leighton Buzzard near (h) being newly built brick fronted house with small washhouse in rear with large common yard containing two stalled stable, wheeler's and blacksmith's shops two other large stables and wood hovels (all thatched) and shed with loft over in occupation of Thomas Gilbert; (j) messuage adjoining (i) in occupation of John Inns [crossed out - subject to right of way for George Hart of Leighton Buzzard, yeoman, owner and occupier of cottage in Jeffs or Gig Lane in which William Tompkins, butcher, once dwelt, then John Tompkins from lane over upper yard of Peacock to barn, yard and premises]; (k) Bull public house in Stewkley [Buckinghamshire], being brick and slate house with three stall timber and slate stable and coach house and slaughter house and yard and garden behind and use, with John Bates of adjoining premises of well and pump and part of wall dividing premises from those of John Bates; in occupation of Thomas Baker subject to right of way for John Bates over premises, through gates to street [this is crossed out: (a)-(k) (with cottage in Leighton Buzzard leased to William Allen the younger, then William Manley and cottage of William reeve were purchased by (1) from Jonathan Barrett and Charles Reeve] Inventory: - open brewing copper, gauge 14 barrels, with brick setting furnace and ironwork; - blowing off copper with brickwork and furnace; - three inch large fir liquor back with division and deal case; - oak mash tun to wet eight quarters with cast iron false bottom; - oan under back; - two fir coolers with bottom joists; - small copper refrigerator with cooler; - four fir squares in one frame, gauge twenty five barrels each; - two cemented table-beer squares; - five fir settling batches; -copper single barrel wort pump and suction to under back; - oscillating liquor engine with suction and main to liquor back and malthouse cistern; - brickwork to carry squares and other utensils; - connecting pipes between different utensils and cocks; - mash tun stage and other stages, ladders, bearers, supports and carpenter's work belonging to fixed plant and utensils; - cooler bearers and pavement; - crane for loading beer over vaults Witnesses: - Thomas Clarke, solicitor of Bishopsgate Chambers Yard, London; - Joseph Woodman of Leighton Buzzard, solicitor
Date free text
31 Oct 1845
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From: 1845 To: 1845
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