X668/205

Lease: (i) John Polhill (ii) William Wootton and Thomas Wootton, Renhold, yeomen. (i) leases to (ii) messuage, farmhouse etc [?Church Farm], closes and inclosed and open field land (244 acres 2 roods 25 perches) in Renhold and now in occupation of (ii). Term 6 years from 11 October next. Rent £300 per annum. £10 per acre of meadow and pasture ploughed up, or arable sown with corn, grain or pulse without harrowing. Many other conditions [Details given] Signatures of both. Endorsed witnesses: Theed Pearse, Theed Pearse junior

4 Aug 1815

From: 1815 To: 1815

Details of other conditions: All timber reserved to (i). Also mines, stone quarries, hunting rights. (i) will keep glass windows, lead work, solder, thatching, going geers etc in good repair, also gates, stiles, rails etc, bridges and fences. Carriage and beer for workmen to be provided. (ii) to bank up 80 rods of banking and ditching every year. (ii) to provide wagon load of wheat straw and deliver it to Howberry Hall stables. Another wagon load of wheat straw to be provided for thatching. (ii) to dung the land. Arable land to be divided into 3. 1/3 to be left fallow. (ii) will every year smooth 5 acres at least of the banky pasture. Also anthills and molehills. No trees to be dug up or lopped without consent of (i). (ii) to find wagon, 4 horses and an able bodied man for 2 days every year to carry coals to Howberry Hall from distance not exceeding 10 miles. Hunting to be preserved. No sub-letting. Various other covenants as in X 668/203 and 204.

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Polhill, John,
Wootton, William,
Wootton, Thomas,
Pearse, Theed

agricultural leases, yeoman, Renhold Church Farm, Renhold farms, timber, quarries, field names, ditching, straw, Renhold Howbury Hall, RENHOLD