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Lease, Showell, Oxfordshire

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3933

Scope and Contents

In consideration of #600 paid to Sir Edmond Anderson, chief justice of common pleas, William Pope esq of Oxford leases to Anthony Cope esq of Hanwell, Oxfordshire, Shoell Grange in Sho[w]ell, Oxfordshire, now or late in the occupation of Robert Payne, for 21 years from 1 May 1593, at an annual rent of #19. 1Indenture, signed and sealed by Cope, delivered to John Bayly to the use of Pope, witnessed by William Knyght, Robert Daye, and 'all the tenants of Wroxton'. Seventeenth-century endorsement of identification.

Dates

  • Creation: 10 May 1592 (34 Elizabeth I)

Conditions Governing Access

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Extent

1 item(s) (vellum) : vellum

Language of Materials

English

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Presented by Lord Fairhaven, 9 April 1949

Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Cambridge University Library Repository

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