X95/290/1/22

Letter from Robert How to Thomas Sworder of Hertford

21 Jul 1865

From: 1865 To: 1865

From: Robert How, Luton; To: Thomas Sworder, Hertford "Mr.Bennett of Dunstable has been here today and looked over the malting & premises Old Brewery Yard. It appears he will require the whole of the range now occupied by Mr.Drewitt & Mr.Brown the former paying £15 and the latter £50 per annum, he wishes to know if you will accept the same rent of him if he expends £140 to put the place into condition, or whether you would prefer to raise the rent to £80 for 7 years, and if you give him notice to quit before the 7 years expire, you should return him a proportion of the amount expended by him, according to the length of time he is in possession. Thus, should you give him notice to quit at the end of the first year, you would have to allow him £120. Should he expend more than £140 he will have to sink that himself. I should be glad to receive your instructions per return, as he will call upon me again on Monday". Reply by Thomas Sworder at Hertford - 22 Jul 1865 "I can hardly answer your letter of 21 Inst satisfactorily without looking at the premises & you do not suggest the best course for me to pursue but if you are satisfied that £80 will be a suff't Rent for 7 years I wd rather let it for 7 years with power for me to determine the Lease at any time on repay't the £140 - if laid out or any less sum according to the proportion of the 7 years that shall have expired at the expir'on of the notice - so do the best you can. Don't give it away Bennett must pay the expense of the Lease - I cannot run over on Monday or I wd have done so".

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Sworder, Thomas,
How, Robert,
Bennett, Benjamin,
Brown,
Drewitt, William

Park Street Brewery Luton, LUTON, non-agricultural leases