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i) John, prior of Newenham ii) John Barker of Bydenham and wife Alice LEASE by i) to ii) from Ladyday next for 60 years at annual rent

27 Henry VIII 8 Feb 1536

From: 1536 To: 1536

... messuages and land, perquisites of courts, profits of stone, lops of trees in Bydenham [reserving 20s issuing annually from parsonage of Bydenham] rent: £8 8s 8d a year until the Prior and convent at their own charges rebuild on the messuage where John Barker lives as good a “duffehowse” as was there at any time within 13 years last past, when rent to be £9 8s 8d Landlords to provide material for repairs in “tymber tylyng splentes roddys and underpynninge”, the tenants to pay for “almoner of splentyng and dawbyng and to kepe reparacyons off thackyng and dawbyng at their proper costes”. Covenant also by i) that ii) shall have one rood of wood and underwood on Stacheden wood at any time a sale is made there Signed: John Ashewell’ prior, Thomas Bydenham subprior, Robert Flytton, John Bykylswade, Eustace Olney, Robert Camebrydge, William Bydenham, Richard Salpho, Simon Desborowe, Henry Rawnes, John Northamton, Thomas Goldyngton, John Baldoke, Henry Ampthyll, John Ramsay, Gilbert Eton, John Dunstabyll Seal of monastery

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Barker, John,
Barker, Alice,
Ashewell, John,
Bydenham, Thomas,
Flytonn, Robert,
Bykylswade, John,
Olney, Eustace,
Camebrydge, Robert,
Bydenham, William,
Salpho, Richard,
Desborowe, Simon,
Rawnes, Henry,
Northampton, John,
Goldyngton, Thomas,
Baldoke, John,
Ampthyll, Henry,
Ramsay, John,
Eton, Gilbert,
Dunstabyll, John

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