Scope and Contents
In consideration of an annual payment of one shilling (and a further shilling paid to the senior treasurer), the mayor, bailiffs, and burgesses of Cambridge grant to Thomas Leech of Cambridge, gardener, a Licence of free access to Jesus College Close by way of Garlick Fair Lane, and to 'make one small tunnell from the King's Ditch into his ground ... so as not to pervert the main current or stream'. Sealed with corporation seal, duty stamps.
Dates
- Creation: 29 June 1808 (48 George III)
Conditions Governing Access
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Extent
1 item(s) (vellum) : vellum
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Alan Keen, Ltd., London, July 1945
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
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