• Reference
    BorBE7/1/29
  • Title
    Counterpart lease for 11 years: (1) The Corporation of the Town of Bedford (2) Robert Thompson of Bedford, butcher. 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 Cook and now of (2): East - shop belonging to the premises; West - St Paul's church yard; North - passage into the church yard; South - Corporation tenement in occupation of John Bunby, exciseman. Annual rent: 30s. payable by equal portions at Lady Day and Michaelmas. (2) bound in £40 to keep covenants. Witnesses: Edmund Crowther, Matthew Priaulx, Town Clerk. Seal; one applied. Signature: Robert Thompson
  • Date free text
    1 September 1737
  • Production date
    From: 1737 To: 1737
  • Level of description
    item