1. Downing College
2. Martin Annesley of Reading, Berks., Esq., (the Receiver appointed by the High Court of Chancery of the rents and profits of the Real Estates devised by the will of Sir George Downing for founding said College)
3. James King of Tadlow, Cambridge, Farmer
LEASE for 12 years of messuage, tenement or farm house with barns, stables, outhouses, yards, gardens and appurtenances, and also the several pieces of arable meadow and pasture land called and containing as follows: China Close arable of c. 5 acres, 34 perches, Clopton Close arable of 9 acres, 25 perches, The Eight Acres arable of c. 9 acres, 30 perches, The Four Acres Meadow of c. 3 acres, 3 roods, 25 perches, The Ten Acre arable of c. 10 acres, 28 perches, Drift Way pasture of 2 acres, 37 perches, Sheep Walk arable of 11 acres, 1 rood and 20 perches, Saint Foin Close arable of c. 11 acres, Rough Close arable of c. 10 acres, 3 roods, 31 perches, Eight Acres arable of 7 acres, 2 roods, Eight Acres Meadow of 8 acres, 2 roods, 33 perches, The Three Acre meadow of 3 acres, 17 perches, Gads White Close pasture of 12 acres, 3 roods, 30 perches, Masters and Dovehouse Close pasture of c. 10 acres, 3 roods, 20 perches, Orchard Close pasture of 8 acres, 2 roods, 14 perches, Fowlk Close pasture of 14 acres, 23 perches, Sheep Walk arable of 11 acres, 3 roods, 35 perches, Twelve Acres arable of 12 acres, 10 perches, Ten Acres arable of 9 acres, 3 roods, 16 perches, Lower Ground arable of 13 acres, 12 perches, 16 acres arable of 16 acres, 4 roods, 16 perches, Cuckow Pin arable of 4 acres, 1 rood, 34 perches, Backside Field arable of 21 acres, 1 rood, 20 perches; all which last mentioned eleven pieces of land are situate in Tadlow and commonly known as Stocks Farm;
various pieces of land [listed] situate in p.s of Croydon and Tadlow called China Dairy and Tiltons Farm, containing in all 493 acres, 1 rood, 29 perches, as comprised in the recited indenture of lease of 14 [12?] Feb 1813;
messuage, tenement or farm house with yards etc and appurtenances plus land, containing in all 120 acres, 1 rood and 3 perches, in p. Croydon, late in tenure of John Simpson, now in that of said James King.
Rent: £680 pa to Downing College; £40 pa to Receiver Martin Annesley for every acre over one half of a meadow or pasture which is mown in any year; a further yearly rent of £40 for every acre of pasture or meadow mown more than once a year or 2 years in succession, or which are ploughed or converted to tillage without direction of Chancery.
Various proviso clauses and exception of timber rights.
With Counterpart