Reference
MN45/7
Title
21 year lease - Manor of Caddington
Date free text
10 Nov 1824
Production date
From: 1817 To: 1824
Scope and Content
21 year lease of the Manor of Caddington
Parties:
(i) William van Mildert, Bishop of Llandaff and Dean of Saint Paul’s Cathedral, London and the chapter;
(ii) John Pedley of Kensworth [Hertfordshire], esquire.
Operative Part:
- (ii) surrendered a former lease to him of the Manor of Caddington made on 6th October 1817
- (i) leased (a)-(e) to (i) for 21 years from Michaelmas 1824; at a rent of £45/17/4 per annum and a further £36 per annum for the use of the vicarage of Caddington with £19/3/5 for redemption of 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 John Pedley, John Somes, Edward Samm and James Pickford;
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.
Covenant 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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