Reference
H/DE94
Title
Lease. 9 years. £175 per annum
Date free text
10 Sep 1750
Production date
From: 1750 To: 1750
Scope and Content
(i) Arthur Radcliffe, Devonshire Square, London, merchant
(ii) John Ravens, Lidlington, yeoman
--- messuage, Beckerings park, late in the occupation of John Denbigh, now (ii),
Dial close (8 acres 5 perches), Calves Pen (7 acres), Homewood (23 acres 1 rood 37 perches),
Ox. Close (5 acres 1 rood 22 perches), Broom Ground (7 acres 2 roods 4 perches), Upper Barn Ground
(5 acres 4 perches), Lower Barn Ground (9 acres 33 perches) Upper Gravel Pit Ground (5 acres 2 roods
28 perches) Lower Gravel Pit Ground (12 acres 32 perches), Moors Meadow (28 acres) the Warren
with the warren house, barn & garden (26 acres 37 perches) Lawrences Hill (10 acres 1 rood 36 perches),
Sheep-pen Grounds (11 acres), Lower Sandy Ground (6 acres 3 roods 11 perches), Upper Sandy Ground
(8 acres 2 roods 11 perches), Rye Ground (16 acres 8 perches), Upper Old Turnip Ground (14 acres
3 roods 36 perches), Lower Old Turnip Ground (8 acres 2 roods 10 perches), Steppingley Ground (13 acres
2 roods), the Slipe (6 acres 23 perches), Horse Chippings (14 acres 17 perches), Six Acres (6 acres
3 roods 25 perches), Greeners Ground (16 acres 30 perches), Seventeen Acres (18 acres 23 perches),
The Spinney (4 acres 1 rood 24 perches) Butler's Ground (12 acres 3 roods 10 perches), Thistley Ground
(34 acres 10 perches), Bushey Ground (18 acres 2 roods 14 perches), Pryor's Grove (3 acres 1 rood),
Pryor's Grove Meadow (13 acres), the Lawn (20 acres 16 perches)
in Ridgmont, Lidlington, Steppingley & Millbrook
excepting as H/DE93
(ii) to keep the premises in good repair and the land to be farmed in a husbandlike manner;
£10 per acre for pasture converted to tillage. (i) to allow firebote etc., as H/DE93, and (ii) may dig turf
on the moor for fuel not exceeding 2 acres during the term.
Usual covenants regarding cultivation.
No mention of payment of tithes.
(ii) not to assign the lease.
witnesses. Richard Tristram, Thomas Taylor.
10 Sep 1750
Level of description
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