BorBE7/1/6

Counterpart lease for 11 years: (1) The Corporation of the Town of Bedford (2) John Deane of Bedford, cordwainer. Lease by (1) to (2) for 11 years from Michaelmas next, of all that messuage or tenement shop with appurtenances in the fish market in occupation of Susannah Kilby, widow: East - shop belonging to the premises; West - churchyard; North - passage into the said churchyard; South - Corporation tenement in occupation of John Lovering. Annual rent: 30 shillings payable by equal portions at Lady Day and Michaelmas. Witnesses: Thomas Chaplin, John Pearle. Seal: one applied, on paper on tag. Signature: John Deane. Also notes on front: "now Henry Clerke for 11 years more", and "Philip Thomson House"

20 September 1693

From: 1693 To: 1693

Endorsed: Agreement between parties that (2) should be allowed £3 (being the first two years rent) to be laid out in repairs to the premises.

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Lovering, John,
Kilby, Susannah,
Chaplin, Thomas,
Deane, John,
Pearle, John,
Clerke, Henry,
Thomson, Philip

cordwainers, shops