BS1149

Lease, 13 years and (sheep walk) 3 years, 100 marks down and one red rose yearly: (i) William Hull of Overstondon [Upper Stondon], gentleman, Thomas Hull of Shefford, gentleman (ii) William Shotbolt of Yardley [Ardeley], Hertfordshire, gentleman, Cutlake Reyner of Meppershall, gentleman. A close of pasture called Dychfeildmeade close in Upper Stondon (inheritance of William Hull and Thomas Hull) and a newly enclosed close in the same parish adjoining Dychfeildmeade close north east. With conditions [details given]. Witnesses: Thomas Parys, scrivener, Thomas Goddsonn, Dennis Hynde, Thomas Cranfild the elder, John Stryng, Richard Lambe, and others

4 May 1578

From: 1578 To: 1578

Conditions: Also commons for six beasts or bullocks during the harvest and winter season, and sheepwalk at all times, in the common fields of Upper Stondon (not being now enclosed). Excepted and reserved unto William Hull and Thomas Hull: the two groves or spinneys of wood as they have been kept heretofore enclosed with trees etc thereon, and commons in the common fields for 20 ewes or supples yearly. Lessees may take the herbage in the two groves with horses, geldings or colds 'saving the spinney of wood and bushes from byting of cattle as much as in them lyeth.'

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Hull, William,
Hull, Thomas,
Shotbolt, William,
Reyner, Cutlake,
Parys, Thomas,
Goddsonn, Thomas,
Hynde, Dennis,
Cranfild, Thomas,
Stryng, John,
Lambe, Richard

agricultural leases, gentleman, field names, scrivener, Upper Stondon fields, Upper Stondon, SHEFFORD, Hertfordshire, Ardeley, MEPPERSHALL