Reference
TW674
Title
i) William Butler of Byddenham gentleman
ii) Robert Woodward of Goldyngton, husbandman
Date free text
26 May 1574
Production date
From: 1574 To: 1574
Scope and Content
Counterpart LEASE by i) to ii) for 21 years at annual rent of £7
... mansion house called the Parsonage house, a close adjoining and 111 acres land, 7½ acres meadow in Brodemeade, Sundermeade and Illye Meade, late in occupation of William Harper in the parishes of Biddenham and Bedford
... 5 acres 12 ft meadow in Sundermeade in Biddenham in the occupation of William Wheler
reserving to the lessor the timber, tithes of parsonage, a barn newly built, a dovehouse in the parsonage yard in the occupation of Robert Alen, a grove called parsonage grove, access to the pound belonging to the parsonage for impounding of cattle
Covenants as to repairs and timber. Each year the tenant to plant 20 willow sets, William Butler to have half “all the wardens which shall growe... upon those thre warden trees nowe standynge .. in .. the same parsonage yarde”
Witnesses: George Smyth, Richard Faldo, John Gye
Level of description
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