Scope and Content
MS copy transcription titled 'copy Indenture from Lady Jane Cheyney'
3 folios (6 pages: dorse of 3rd sheet is un-used 19th Cinvoice for Gunn & Wildman, late Hugh Gunn, of Luton, manufacturer and warehouseman; no other clue is given as to the transcriber/compiler)
Folio 1r/v: transcription of P8/25/1
Folios 2r/v and 3r/v: transcription of Indenture of Demise and Grant for 12 years.
Calendar based on thr transcription follows:
Parties
(i) Francis Astrey of Harlington Woodend in the Parish of Harlington, esq., Thomas Pottr, gent, Theodore Potts, George Reeve the elder, George Reeve the younger, Thomas Reeve, James Matthew, William White, Renold Hatchell (else 'Hatchet(t)'), Francis Carrington, George Shaw, William Dear (e) man, Henry Priestley and William Steven(s), all of Toddington, yeoman.
Recitals: none
Operative part
Demise (operative words 'demise, grant betake and to farm let') by (i) (for divers good causes and considerations) to (ii) of:
(a) their 19 and a half acres of arable land, meadow, 'headings' (elsewhere @heads'), and leys, late in the tenure or occupation of Edward Carvill and now in the tenure or occupation of (ii).
(b) all profits, commons and commodities belonging and appertaining thereto. Except and always reserving, out of this demise and grant, to (i):
(c) All and all manner of tees with their lopps and topps, hedged, and bushes now standing and growing in or upon (a) together with free ingress, 'exgress', and regress into and upon (a) at all convenient times during the continuance of the demise for the felling, cutting, carting and carrying away of the same.
Hebendum: to (ii) from the feast of St Michael the Archangel last past for 12 years.
Reddendum: £6 16s. 8 d. annualy unto (i) at or in the N.W. porch of the parish church of Toddington at the two usual feasts or terms in the year (i.e. the Annunciation of Our blessed Virgin Mary and the feast of St. Michael the Archangel) by even and equal portions or within four days next after any of the feast days, it being lawful for (i) wholly to re-enter and repossess (a), and remove and put out (ii), in the event of the rent or any part thereof being behind or unpaid by the space of 15 days next after any of the feast days.
Covenants (operative words in each case @covenant, promise and grant') as follows:
- (ii) annaully, well and sufficiently, to muck, dung and soil either by folding of sheep or with dung carried by cart, rags, malt dust, culverdung or other hearty compost all the arable land demised which lies in the tilth fields of Toddington or Fancott.
-(ii) to pay and discharge all levies, taxes and payments for the highways, church and collection for the poor, for and in respect of (a) that if (ii) shall at any time during the term ear, plough, dig, or break up or convert into tillage any of the leys lying in Warmark or any of the ancient meadow ground sward or headings to the arable land or leys, then for every acre so eared etc. He shall pay (i) £5 and so after the same rate per acre for a greater or lesser quantity of ground over and over the rent.
- (ii) at the feast of the Annunciation of the B.V.M in the last year of the said term to yield up to (i) all the arable lands, leys and meadow ground which that year shall lie or be in the fallowfields of Toddington and Fancot together witht the sheep commons belonging to the same.
-(i) with (ii) for his peaceable and quiet occupation and possesion of (a) sans let, suit, trouble, denial, interruption or disturbance of them.
Dorse: sealed and delivered in he presence of William Pryor, James Anthony and Henry Ward[?]; and inscribed, inter alia, 'Francis White his leese'.