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Lease, North Leigh, Oxfordshire

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3941

Scope and Contents

In consideration of #85 in hand, and of a further #25 to be paid at Michaelmas next, Sir William Pope of Wroxton, Oxfordshire, leases to Thomas Brucks of South More, Longworth, Berkshire, husbandman, to Brucks's sister Elizabeth Brucks, and to Edward Riggins, younger son of Edward Riggins of Marcham, Berkshire, a tenement with associated copyhold yardland in North Leigh, Oxfordshire, formerly in the tenure of Widow Townesend, deceased, for 99 years or their three lives at an annual rent of 12s 2d. Topping of oak, ash, and elm prohibited. Conditional prohibition of subletting. Specification of heriot. See Doc 3943. Indenture, with the mark and seal of Thomas Brucks, witnessed by John Wattson, Antony ?Lighfild, John Younge, and John Johnson. Endorsed in a seventeenth-century hand: 'This ys void'.

Dates

  • Creation: 25 Mar. 1626 (1 Charles 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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