• Reference
    X268/65/1
  • Title
    Lease
  • Date free text
    21 Mar 1828
  • Production date
    From: 1828 To: 1828
  • Scope and Content
    i) William Fortescue, Smithfield Bars, London, surgeon Walter Landor, Rugely, Staffordshire, gentleman Thomas Burbidge Johnson, Dunchurch, Warwickshire, draper (devisees in trust under the will of John Fortescue, Ashby Street, Northampton Square, Middlesex, and Cheapside, London, merchant, deceased) ii) Edward Odell, Cranfield, yeoman i) lease to ii) … enclosed sward and arable (36 acres) at Wharley End, Cranfield, formerly in occupation of Samuel Eames, then of John Millard and then of ii), except timber growing on said ground and right of hunting over said land term - 14 years from 25 March next rent - £42 payable half yearly - £200 for every acre ploughed up without consent of i) various covenants as to husbandry if ii) dies before the 14 years are up, then property to be surrendered to i) signatures of all endorsed witnesses: James Clark, 10 Smithfield Bars Orlando Webb, solicitor's clerk, Rugeley Benjamin Johnson, draper, Dunchurch George Cooch, solicitor, Newport Pagnell
  • Level of description
    item