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