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Indenture of Lease for 6 years from Michaelmas (12 Richard II)

Monday next after the feast of St. Dionysius 12 Richard II: 12 Oct 1388

From: 1388 To: 1388

Parties: (i) Gerard Braybrook, knight, junior (ii) John Croft the elder, Operative Part: - (i) leased (a) to (ii) for £4 at 2 annual terms, the feast of St. John the Baptist and the feast of Michaelmas in equal portions. Property: (a) All his tenements with lands, meadows, pastures and feedings [pratis pascuis] and all their appurtenances in Colmworth [Colmord] that he lately had from John Boweles. Conditions • that (ii) should pay and support all charges [onera] touching on the said tenements for the full time of his farm; • that (i) has leased [tradidit] to (i) his stock there, living and dead, namely 2 cart horses [equos pro careta], each priced at 10s., 4 cart oxen [bov’ pro caruc’], each priced at 16s.; • that (ii) will sustain and maintain all houses, in walls and in thatch and all hedges/fences, walls and closes [sep’ mur’ et clausur’] and will return [demise] them in the same good state or better; • that (ii) will return [demise] at the end of the term a plough with coulter and share [unam carucam cum cultro et vomer’] with all equipment [apparat’] for four oxen and 2 horses and a new plough [unam carucam de novo factam]; yet [that] (i) should find thick timber for the said houses and timber for the ploughs as often as should be needed at the ‘circumspection’ and delivery of the Steward or his reeve [ad circumspecionem et deliberacionem Sensecal’ seu ministr’ sui]; • that (ii) should not cut or seize any other produce or profits [comodum seu profac’] from trees, hedges on underwoods unless for housbote haysbote and for fuel for the whole term of his farm; • that (ii) will return [demise] at the end of the term so much land fallow and rebinat’ [fallow land from third ploughing], namely all of Burnocroft, as is received [at the inception of the lease] so fallow and rebinat’; in respect thereof, composting with cartloads of dung [cum carect’ et fald’] from the well in the middle of the pond up to the hedge next to [a fonte in medio stagni usque ad sep’ prox’] the parish of Colmworth, 5 selions and 4 gores [and a?] headland [or 4 headland gores; et quatuor gor’ capud] up to the wood called Burno sown with wheat [sei’at’ cum fro’]; • that [he] should return [demise] all pieces under the wood called Burno, abutting against the east and west, fallow and rebinat’ and composted with dung [cum fald’]; and also, at the end of his term, 5 selions in Croweredynges fallow and rebinat’ with dung [cum fald’]; and 11 selions fallow and rebinat’ in the same furlong; • that (ii) should pay annually to (i), is heirs or executors, 2 quarters of oats [aven’]; • For observing these agreements (ii) binds himself, his heirs and executors, well and faithfully, in £20 of sterling to be paid to (i) or his certain attorney at Wodhull at the end of each term if any of the agreements in this document are broken. Dated at Colmworth

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Braybrook, Gerard,
Croft, John,
Boweles, John

COLMWORTH, words, agricultural leases, wheat, horses, oxen, agricultural implements, steward, Colmworth fields