X668/204

Lease: (i) John Polhill, Howberry Hall, esquire (ii) Robert Newman, Renhold, yeoman. (i) demises to (ii) messuage or farmhouse etc [?Little Dairy Farm], 188 acres 3 roods 8 perches enclosed and open field land in Renhold and in the occupation of (ii). Term 6 years from 11 October next. Rent £300. £10 for every acre of meadow and pasture ploughed up, £10 for every acre arable sown with corn, grain or pulse more than 2 years together without fallowing for one whole summer or sowing with turnips, tares or clover seeds sown with breach crops in preceding year. Such turnips etc to be eaten on the premises. Many other conditions [Details given] Signatures of (i) and (ii). Endorsed witness: Theed Pearse

4 Aug 1815

From: 1815 To: 1815

Details of other conditions: Except timber and timber like trees growing on the premises, with liberty for (i) to enter premises and carry same away. Also excepting mines and stone quarries with liberty for (ii) to mine them. Also liberty for (i) to enter Hill ground close and to turn present public carriage road from Bedford to Great Barford from its present course through Hill Close at a width of 60 feet. (i) will allow (ii) 2 guineas out of yearly rent of £300 for every acre of said close used for aforesaid purpose. Game rights reserved to (i). Various covenants by (ii) including keeping glass windows, lead work, solder, thatching, going geers in the pump and well, in good repair. Also gates, stiles, watercourses, bridges, fences etc on being found rough timber for the purpose. Also will perform the carriage of the timber and find beer for the workmen, without payment. (ii) will bank up 70 rods of ditching and banking every year. Also will provide for (i) a wagon load of good trussed wheat straw and deliver it to the stables at Howberry Hall. Also will provide one wagon load of trussed wheat straw for thatching the cottages of (i) and deliver as required in Renhold and Goldington. To receive 20s a load. No corn, grain and hay to be sold without consent of (i). All dung and compost to be used on the land. Arable land to be divided into 3. 1/3rd part to be left for fallow each year. (ii) will level each year 5 acres of the banky pastureland. Anthills and molehills to be levelled. (i) may enter on land on 1 May before lease expires to manage the land, spread the dung etc. If (ii) shall convert furze (7 acres 3 roods 25 perches) adjoining the Sheepwalk into tillage, then shall be managed in same way as the arable. Fence to be erected between furze ground and sheep walk. No trees to be felled or hedges trimmed without consent of (i). Also (ii) will find a waggon and 4 horses and an able bodied man 2 days in every year to fetch and carry coals, from any place not exceeding 10 miles from Howberry Hall, without payment. (ii) will preserve game on the property. No sub-letting without consent. (ii) will reside on the premises. (i) will keep premises in good repair (glass, lead, solder, thatch and going geers etc excepted). (ii) to provide carriage and beer for the workmen. (i) will provide rough timber for the repair of the stiles etc. Hay to be left on premises in the last summer for the benefit of the incoming tenant. (ii) to be paid its value. Premises to be insured.

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Polhill, John,
Newman, Robert,
Pearse, Theed

agricultural leases, yeoman, Renhold Little Dairy Farm, Renhold farms, timber, quarries, town & local roads, field names, ditching, straw, hay, Renhold Howbury Hall, RENHOLD, Great Barford