Scope and Content
21 year lease of the Manor of Caddington
Parties:
(i) Edward Copleston, Bishop of Llandaff and Dean of Saint Paul’s Cathedral, London and the chapter;
(ii) John Pedley of Caddington Hill [Hertfordshire], esquire.
Reciting:
- MN42/9;
- MN42/10;
- act of 1830 called “an act for effecting an exchange between the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of Saint Paul in London and John Pedley Esquire” in which (a) in MN42/10 (of which 13 acres, 2 roods, 17 poles in Markyate and Hurps Hill were liable to payment to the Vicar of Caddington of the yearly corn rent) were to be liable to a rent to (i) of £11/3/5 and were conveyed to the use of (ii) for ever; and in which (e) below which was previously owned by (ii) was vested in (ii) for the residue of the 21 years created by MN42/10 subject to annual rent to (i) of £15 remainder after determination of the lease to (i)
Operative Part:
- (ii) surrendered the former leases to him of the Manor of Caddington made on 24th June 1828;
- (i) leased (a)-(e) to (i) for 21 years at an annual rent of £30/17/4, £8 for redeemed Land Tax, £15 and £36 for the Vicar of Caddington
Property:
(a) Caddington manor house in Hertfordshire ;
(b) Bury Farm, Caddington containing 509 acres, 2 roods, 7 perches;
(c) land in Caddington adjoining the high road from Dunstable to London containing 135 acres, 2 roods, 28 perches in the occupation of John Somes;
(d) land inn Caddington containing 54 acres, 3 roods, 39 perches in the occupation of Edward Samm;
(e) Zouches Farm, Caddington, including the farm house and site containing 3 acres, 3 roods, Little Zouches and Home Field, now in one, containing 12 acres, 1 rood, 5 perches, Home Wick containing 2 acres, 3 roods, 19 perches, The Lane between Zouches Castle Croft Spinney and Little John’s and leading out of Bury Farm containing 2 roods, 26 perches, Little John’s Spinney containing 4 acres, 3 roods, 27 perches, Little John’s Field containing 11 acres, 3 roods, 16 perches, Dame Ellen’s Spinney containing 5 acres, 1 roods, 13 perches, Dame Ellen’s Field containing 25 acres, 2 roods, 28 perches, Dame Ellen’s Spinney next Little Zouches containing 2 roods, 22 perches, Cherry Tree Field containing 9 acres,1 rood, Grove Close containing 15 acres, 1 rood, 8 perches, Grove Spinney containing 3 acres, 2 roods, 6 perches, Pond Close containing 12 acres, 1 rood, 24 perches, Ash Tree Hill containing 20 acres, 1 rood, 7 perches, Grove Hill containing 11 acres, 2 roods, 10 perches, Gadlers Hill containing 27 acres, 1 rood, 8 perches, part of the Downs adjoining Grove Hill and Gadlers Hill containing 37 acres, 1 rood, 15 perches – total 201 acres, 3 roods, 34 perches
Reserving to (i)
- rents of assize, annuities, fees, pensions, freeholders’ and copyholders’ rents, courts leet and barn, view of frankpledge, perquisites of courts, fines, heriots, reliefs, amercements, issues, privileges, franchises, services of 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;
- 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”;
- to repair and maintain the manor house and chancel of the parish church.
- to repair and maintain the capital messuage