BorBE7/1/16

Counterpart lease for 11 years: (1) Corporation of the Town of Bedford (2) Ann Tompson of Bedford, widow. Lease by (1) to (2) for 11 years from Michaelmas next, of all that messuage or tenement and shop with appurtenances in the fish market heretofore in occupation of Thomas Cooke and now of (2): East - shop belonging to the premises; West - churchyard; North - passage into the said churchyard; South - Corporation tenement late in occupation of John Lovelidge and now of Elizabeth Lovelidge. Annual rent: 30 shillings payable half yearly. Witnesses: Thomas Chaplin, John Pearle, William Kidd. Seal: one applied on paper on tag. Signature: mark of Ann Tompson.

13 September 1715

From: 1715 To: 1715

( 2) bound in £40 to keep covenants. Endorsed: Agreement between parties that lessee shall "not assign premises without the consent of the Corporation"

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Tompson, Ann,
Cooke, Thomas,
Lovelidge, John,
Lovelidge, Elizabeth,
Chaplin, Thomas,
Kidd, William,
Pearle, John

tailor, Mayor