H/WS277

Lease for 9 years - Rent £65 1. William Seeling of Kimpton, Herts., gent. 2. Francis Whitbread of Shillington, husbandman

17 Aug. 1705

From: 1705 To: 1705

Capital messuage in Upton End, and 93 acres arable, pasture and meadow, late occupied James Weedon. Covenants include : Repair by tenant, except the thatch on North side of malthouse, parcel of the messuage, which lessor promises to repair. Tenant will not, during 2 last years of the term, cross-crop or breach-crop any of the arable lands by sowing them with wheat, rye, barley or other tilth grain when the same should be sown with oats, peas, beans or vetches or other edge grain, or vice-versa (except the piece of land called Stocking, which he may cross-crop) Tenant may convert Bradmore Close to tillage, if he lays it back to pasture 2 years before the end of the lease.

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Seeling, William,
Whitbread, Francis,
Weedon, James

Shillington Upton End, Kimpton, SHILLINGTON, crops