BS984

Lease and Bond (draft). Lease for 6 years, £18: Thomas Shele, clerk and parson of Higham Gobion, to John Brace of Hexton, Hertfordshire, maltman. The parsonage of Higham Gobion with appurtenances. Various covenants [details given]. Bond, 40 marks. John and Thomas Brace of Hexton, maltmen, and William Impie of Hexton, weaver, to Thomas Shele, clerk. For performance of covenants in foregoing. On dorse: 'certain notes of such land, pasture and meadow as belonged to the parsonage of Higham Gobion amounting to 28 or 30 acres' [but no such notes appear].

20 Sep 1554

From: 1554 To: 1554

Details given: Excepted: the new parlour and old parlour and small chamber next the churchyard and the study; Thomas Shele to occupy the same at his pleasure. John shall bear all charges for bread, wine and wax for the priest to sing and minister withal; he shall keep and find an honest priest to serve the cure of the parish of Higham for the exoneration of Thomas; he shall not fell, lop, top or crop any trees or wood in or about the parsonage. Thomas shall have convenient room for all his boards, timber etc in such places as they now lie in. John shall keep and leave in good repair houses, hedges and fences, and walls in thatching and daubing; he shall lay up yearly his tithe in the barn; and shall repair any damage by his servants, children, assignees or any of his household or cattle. John shall find and keep Thomas an horse with good hay and litter in winter and grass in summer if he dwell in the parsonage, or else provide him a good and easy horse to ride to and from the parsonage once or twice a year and so in the county so long as he is abiding in the county; he shall inhabit the parsonage and alienate no part without consent. If Thomas Wodewarde of Barton be minded to have the tithe of Faldo belonging to the parsonage for a whole year he shall have it, paying to John £6 on his days of payment. Provided that if Thomas Shele be minded to serve the cure of the parish then John shall pay him as good a wage as he would pay any other curate.

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Shele, Thomas,
Brace, John,
Brace, Thomas,
Impie, William,
Wodewarde, Thomas

agricultural leases, deeds, clerks, parsonages, maltman, weavers, curates, tithes, HIGHAM GOBION, Hexton, Barton, Faldo