• Reference
    SA15
  • Title
    Lease (12 years). Rent, covenants and agreements. Rent £30 payable at Mansion House at Hawnes
  • Date free text
    5 Feb 1778
  • Production date
    From: 1778 To: 1778
  • Scope and Content
    i) Henry Frederick Carteret, esquire (late Henry Frederick Thynne of Hawnes, nephew of Robert, Earl Granville, deceased) ii) George William Earl of Coventry; Thomas Lord Viscount Weymouth iii) Thomas Butcher of Clophill, yeoman ii) with consent of i) - iii) ... Great Humphry field and Little Pig hill "with the Freeboard under Oxley Wood" (20 acres 10 perches) ... Little Humphrey field and "the Freeboard under Oxley Wood" (17 acres 3 roods 23 perches) ... Little field (9 acres 16 perches) All above in occupation Horn and Young as tenants. (Timber reserved to i) and hunting etc.; iii) to pay all taxes, tithes and rates except land tax. Usual agricultural clauses - iii) to remove bushes impeding tillage except those necessary for repairs, not to sow more wheat than customary, in last year to leave 10 acres in "a proper Fallow so as to be sown with Wheat the next year" No witnesses or seals
  • Level of description
    item