Reference
MN45/4
Title
21 year lease - Manor of Caddington
Date free text
4 Nov 1803
Production date
From: 1803 To: 1803
Scope and Content
21 year lease of the Manor of Caddington
Parties:
(i) George Pretyman, Bishop of Lincoln and Dean of Saint Paul’s Cathedral, London and the chapter;
(ii) William Beckford of Fonthill [Wiltshire], esquire
Operative Part:
- (ii) surrendered a former lease to him of the Manor of Caddington made on 9th March 1797;
- (i) leased (a)-(e) to (i) for 21 years from Michaelmas 1803 at a rent of £45/17/4 per annum and a further £36 per annum for the use of the vicarage of Caddington as well was £19/3/5, part of the annual Land Tax;
Property:
(a) the manor house of Caddington lying in the Hertfordshire portion of the parish;
(b) the demesne lands of Caddington Manor in Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire;
(c) all lands, messuages, tenements, tofts, curtilages, arable grounds, meadows, leasows, pastures and all rents of assize, annuities, fees, pensions and all other rents of freeholders and copyholders belonging to the manor; all services of plowings, weedings and reapings; all tithes of corn and hay belonging to the Parsonage of Caddington etc. in the parishes of Caddington, Luton and Dunstable;
(d) a wood and grove on the backside of the manor house as well as Low Wood and Bunders Grove;
(e) lands allotted at the inclosure of Caddington on 20th June 1800 and containing 1,100 acres in the occupation of Thomas Pickord, William Bigg, Susannah Blow, widow and Olive Seabrook
Reserving to (i)
- courts leet and baron, view of frankpledge and fines, heriots, reliefs, amercements, issues, liberties, privileges, franchises, services or courts and law days, waifs, strays, felons, goods, deodands, escheats, forfeitures, royalties and casualties;
- the patronage of the living of Caddington;
- tithe of hay belonging to the rectory or vicarage;
- standing timber;
- the Great Wood called Caddington Wood;
- “twenty of the fairest oak, ash or beech trees growing or hereafter to grow within the said wood on the backside of the said capital messuage or mansion house at the election of the dean and chapter;
- liberty of ingress, egress and regress to carry off timber.
Covenants by (ii)
- to deliver to the Vicar of Caddington “four quarters of good, sweet and wholesome wheat and four quarters of good and sweet barley”; the vicar paying 6/8 per quarter of wheat and 3/4 per quarter of barley;
- to repair and maintain the manor house.
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