OR1346

File of about a dozen tenancy agreements, surveys, and “memorandums for farms”, found together in a parchment folder:-

1774 – 1809.

From: 1774 To: 1809

agreements with:- (by Richard Orlebar) William Goosey: new bakehouse at Podington 1774 William Bull: farm at Podington 1782 John Smith: ploughing greensward 1790 William Bull: farm at Podington 1791 William Bull: the wold 1783 (?) Daniel Leahair: farm at Podington 1791 Thomas Boddington: farm at Hinwick 1794 Thomas Austin: farm at Podington 1796 William Church: land on Bozeat wold 1799 Thomas Tebbut: 4 closes 1801 Thomas Boddington: Lodge Farm 1801 John Frost: fields (named) 1802 William Bull: farm at Podington 1803 Also agreement witnessed by Richard Orlebar between Reverend Richard Williams, vicar of Podington, and James Bates of Northamptonshire: farm and parsonage house at Podington, 1809. Notice to quit by Richard Orlebar to Mrs. Bull 1808. Nine very brief surveys found with above, mostly undated, lists of closes, with acreage. Plan “late Turland’s wold”. Notes on individual farms, with tenant’s name, sometimes giving particulars of repairs to be done (Daniel Brown, 1780), with a long note about Podington Lodge “concerning some things (thought to be) improvements on said lands by Richard Orlebar in 1795”.

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Orlebar, Richard,
Goosey, William,
Bull, William,
Smith, John,
Leahair, Daniel,
Boddington, Thomas,
Austin, Thomas,
Church, William,
Tebbut, Thomas,
Frost, John,
Williams, Richard,
Bates, James,
Brown, Daniel

tenancy, surveys, farms, bakehouses, PODINGTON, Podington farms, Hinwick farms, field names, vicar, Northants, parsonages