Reference
HG3/2
Title
Draft agreement to lease (not executed): - years; rent £217 p.a.
Date free text
1 Sep 1783
Production date
From: 1783 To: 1783
Scope and Content
Earl of Peterborough.
Thos. Jones of Clifton, Bucks., clerk.
Turvey Grove Farm, 377 ac. (as set out in schedule on dorse), with dwellinghouse; in Turvey and Brayfield. Landlord reserves timber, quarry rights, rights of hunting and fishing, and a liberty of planting trees (making a proportionate abatement of rent).
Tenant is to pay £10 per acre for every acre ploughed; pay taxes except land tax; will scour ditches; burn and make lime; will employ dung on premises; will sow annually 1/4 of arable with grass seeds; in last year will make 1/4 of arable a good fallow; may use barn for 8 months after expiry of term.
Endorsed with survey of Grove Farm.
Level of description
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