Reference
X98/1
Title
Bromham Rectory mortgage.
Date free text
25 Apr 1705
Production date
From: 1701 To: 1705
Scope and Content
Mortgage for £300
Edmund Waller of Gregories in the parish of Beconsfield, Buckinghamshire and Theophila his wife. to Joseph Gronous of St Paul's Covent Garden, vintner; the remainder of a term of years of a lease of the rectory of Bromham, Bedfordshire, all the tithe of corn, grain, hay and wood belonging thereto, and the grange and lands appertaining to the said rectory in Bromham, Stagsden and Stevington, excepting the advowson of the vicarage of Bromham, reciting the original lease for 10 years of the same, dated 22 December 1701, between the Provost Royal and the College known as King's College of the Blessed Mary of Eaton [Eton] and the said Edmund and Theophila Waller and Henry Fleetwood of Lichfield and Mary his wife, for the annual rent of £4..13s..4d, and three quarters, four bushels and five pecks of barley malt (or as much money as they would fetch in Windsor market) and twenty fat wether sheep (or if these failed to be approved by the Bursar's slaughterman, the sum of £12) to be delivered in the pasture known as Playings Leasures and also forty shillings to be paid to the king on behalf of the college; reciting also the subsequent assignment dated 14 April 1705 of their share in the lease by Henry and Mary Fleetwood to Edmund Waller and Theophila his wife. The said lease being free of any other obligations save a lease for eleven years to Joseph Mann of Bromham
witnessed: Nathaniel Trayton, William Purcell
Level of description
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