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Lease, Avescott, Oxfordshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3948
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In consideration of #484, Sir Thomas Pope of Wroxton, Oxfordshire, leases to Alexander Maie [May] and Thomas Hinton, both of Avescott, Oxfordshire, yeomen, a farm called Putts or Pitlands, in Avescott, for 99 years or the lives of Maie's children Anthonie, Anne, and Alice Maie, at an annual rent of 40s. Detailed reservations of timber rights. Indenture, signed and sealed by May and Hinton, witnessed by Rice Jones, John Holland, and William Webbe (?).

Dates: 28 May 1633 (9 Charles I)
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Lease, Barnwell, Cambridgeshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3752
Scope and Contents In consideration of 5s, Joahana Swann of Cambridge, widow, John Swann [jnr] of Cambridge, milkman, and Edward Preston of Barnwell, victualler, lease three new tenements built to replace buildings destroyed by fire, and another tenement, the ground floor of which is used as a baker's shop, all on the Newmarket Road, and currently occupied by Messrs Rowell, Bradford, Walkin, Aves, Whyman, and Barrow, together with a further two tenements and a farm building with adjoining land in Brick Kiln...
Dates: 2 May 1828
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Lease, Bartlow, Cambridgeshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.852
Scope and Contents Indenture made between Samuel King, yeoman, of Ashdon, Essex, and Christopher Marshall the younger, citizen and dyer, of the parish of St. Saviour's, Southwark, London. Samuel King for £5 and a yearly peppercorn leases for 1000 years to Christopher Marshall three roods of arable land in Bartlow, Cambs., called Churchmeadowfeild, formerly belonging to Henry Flacke, then to Jeremy Goodwin, then to Henry Story, and so to Samuel King. Signed by Samuel King, his mark. Witnessed by R. Flacke, G....
Dates: 22 Nov. 1678
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Lease, Bruern, Oxfordshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3924
Scope and Contents Sir Thomas Pope Kt leases to Thomas Bridges esq of Cornbury, Oxfordshire, Sewell [Showell] Grange in Bruern, Oxfordshire, granted to Sir Thomas by the court of augmentations at an annual rent of #18 6s 2d, and currently occupied by Thomas Bridges and by Sir John Bridges Kt of Cuberley [Coberley], Gloucestershire. The term is 50 years from the following Michaelmas, and the annual rent #18 6s 2d for the first 7 years, and #18 19s 2d thereafter. Indenture, signed and sealed by Pope in the...
Dates: 9 June 1540 (32 Henry VIII)
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Lease by E. Wilson, Swavesey, Cambridgeshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.745
Dates: 1708
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Lease, C. Beales to Wragg, Little Shelford, Cambridgeshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.686
Dates: 1843
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Lease, Cambridge

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1872
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In consideration of 5s, John Bright of Histon, Cambridgeshire, yeoman, and Rebecca his wife, lease their moiety of a tenement in Walls Lane, Holy Trinity, Cambridge, late in the possession of James Bangle, deceased, for one year to Zachariah Mart of Cambridge, gent, at peppercorn rent, as first stage in process of lease and release. See also Doc 1873. Marks and seals of both Brights, witnessed by John Smith and C Martindale, duty stamp

Dates: 26 Dec. 1765 (6 George III)
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Lease, Cambridge

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1886
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In consideration of #225, John Forlow of Cambridge, common brewer and alderman, leases to William Jardine Purchas esq of Cambridge, his tenement in Post Office Yard, Cambridge, recently occupied by Forlow's late father, John, for 37.5 years from the previous Michaelmas, at an annual rent of #8. Signed and sealed by Forlow, witnessed by John Purchas and Peter Robinson, duty stamps. Endorsed: 'No 1'.

Dates: 18 Oct. 1790 (30 George III)
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Lease, Cambridge

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1890
Scope and Contents In consideration of #110, John Forlow of Cambridge, common brewer and alderman, leases to Richard Wallis of Cambridge, grocer, his 'new bricked building' in Post Office Yard, Cambridge, opposite the tenement occupied by William Jardine Purchas, for 37.25 years at an annual rent of #4. Signed and sealed by Forlow, witnessed by Peter Robinson and John Butcher, duty stamps. Endorsed with receipt for consideration money, same date and signatures. Further endorsed: 'No 2', and (in pencil):...
Dates: 1 Feb. 1791 (21 George III)
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Lease, Cambridge

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1896
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In consideration of #30, John Forlow of Cambridge, gent, leases the 'lower room' of a tenement in the parish of All Saints, Cambridge, currently a post office and in the occupation of a Mr Pentris [?Ventress], to John Hovell of Cambridge, sadler, for 28 years at peppercorn rent. Signed and sealed by Forlow, witnessed by Charles Caesar, duty stamps. Endorsed: 'No 5'.

Dates: 24 Mar. 1800 (40 George III)
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Lease, Cambridge

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1897
Scope and Contents John Newling esq, John Apsey, brazier, William Roberts esq, John Prentice, baker, Taylor Harwood, watchmaker, and John Smith, cabinet-maker, all of Cambridge, trustees of Mrs [Susannah] Forrester's charity estate, lease to John Forlow esq of Cambridge a dwelling house and connected properties in Post Office Yard and in an adjacent yard, opposite Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, for 40 years at an annual rent of #26. Forlow is to take out fire insurance for #300, and enters bond of #100 for...
Dates: 1 Nov. 1802 (43 George III)
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Lease, Cambridge

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1905
Scope and Contents The master, fellows and scholars of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, lease to Thomas Nutter of Cambridge, brewer, a new-built tenement on the north side of Walls Lane or Sussex Street, Cambridge, formerly part of the master's garden, for 40 years from 1825 at an annual rent of #10. Clause against unauthorised alienation. Sealed with college seal, duty stamps. Considerably amended in pencil. Endorsed: 'The House was built by / valuation of Mr Biggs and / Mr Hollingsworth at the / sum of...
Dates: 28 Feb. 1831 (1 William IV)
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Lease, Cambridge

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1916
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In consideration of 5s, Zachariah Mart of Cambridge, gent, and Ann his wife, lease a tenement in Preachers St, parish of St Andrew the Great, Cambridge, now or late in the possession of Thomas Bennet esq and Mrs Beard, widow, for one year to Harry Gilman of Cambridge, apothecary, at peppercorn rent, as first stage in process of lease and release. See also Doc 1917. Signed and sealed by Zachariah and Ann Mart, witnessed by John Smith and John Haggerstone, duty stamp.

Dates: 29 Aug. 1765 (5 George III)
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Lease, Cambridge

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1920
Scope and Contents In consideration of 5s, the Revd Adam Wall, senior fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, leases a tenement in Preachers St, parish of St Andrew the Great, Cambridge, late in the possession of Ann Galloway, spinster, for one year to John Ashton of St Ives, Huntingdonshire, linen-draper, and Godfrey Elam of Cambridge, baker, at peppercorn rent, as first stage in process of lease and release. See also Doc 1921. Signed and sealed by Adam Wall, witnessed by Thomas Lombe and Ed Randall, duty...
Dates: 28 Sep. 1790 (30 George III)
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Lease, Cambridge

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1922
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In consideration of 5s, John Ashton of St Ives, Huntingdonshire, linen-draper, leases a tenement in Preachers St, parish of St Andrew the Great, Cambridge, late in the possession of Godfrey Elam, for one year to Joseph Hart of Cambridge, linen-draper, at peppercorn rent, as first stage in process of lease and release. See also Doc 1923. Signed and sealed by John Ashton, witnessed by Ed Randall and William Clarke, duty stamps.

Dates: 28 Sep. 1792 (33 George III)
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Lease, Cambridge

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1930
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In consideration of 5s, Joseph Hart of Cambridge, gent, leases a tenement in Preachers St, parish of St Andrew the Great, Cambridge, now in the possession of Lydia Simmonds, widow, for one year to William Anderson of Cambridge, miller, at peppercorn rent, as first stage in process of lease and release. See also Doc 1931. Signed and sealed by Joseph Hart, witnessed by Ed Randall and William Clarke, duty stamps.

Dates: 12 Jan. 1794 (Possibly 1795?, 35 George III)
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Lease, Cambridge

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3724
Scope and Contents In consideration of 5s, Robert Day of Cambridge, brewer, (son, heir, and executor of the last will of Charles Day of Cambridge, brewer, deceased) leases three tenements in the parish of All Saints, Cambridge, currently occupied by Elizabeth Jennings, innholder, Stephen Murriall, barber, and Thomas Deans, capper, for one year to Daniel Love of Cambridge, brewer, at peppercorn rent as first stage in process of lease and release. The Sun Inn lies to the north of the property, the White Bear Inn...
Dates: 30 June 1697 (9 William III)
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Lease, Cambridge

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3727
Scope and Contents In consideration of 5s, John Brackenbury and Henry King of Cambridge, gents, Peter Carew esq of Cambridge, and Mary his wife, and Daniel Love of Cambridge, gent (son and heir of Daniel Love of Cambridge, brewer, by Martha his wife, both deceased), lease two tenements south of the Sun Inn in the parish of All Saints, Cambridge, for one year to Cornelius Austin of Cambridge, joiner, at peppercorn rent as first stage in process of lease and release. Austin is the current occupier of one...
Dates: 16 Jan. 1716 (Possibly 1717?, 3 George I)
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Lease, Cambridge etc.

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1925
Scope and Contents In consideration of 5s, William Anderson of Cambridge, mealman (only son and heir of John and Mary Anderson), leases a tenement in the parish of St Clement, Cambridge, a house and lands in Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire, now occupied by a Mr Bynge, a windmill and granary in Chesterton, and various freehold properties in the parish of St Botolph, Newnham, for one year to his sister Mary Anderson of Cambridge, at peppercorn rent, as first stage in process of lease and release. See also Doc 1926....
Dates: 19 Aug. 1793 (33 George III)
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Lease, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1416
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Edward Reresbe of Hatfield, Yorks., lets to Richard Roydon of Somersham, Hunts., Richard Carter of Colne, Hunts., and Robert Cawthorne of Alconbury, Hunts., certain property and fen land in Chatteris for a term of thirteen years. Witnessed by John Jackson, John Lack, and William Redmay.

Dates: 27 Oct. 1582
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Lease, Cheveley, Cambridgeshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1421
Scope and Contents Dame Ann Carleton of Cheveley and Sir John Cotton of Lanworth, Cambs. (i.e. Landwade) let to Thomas Salisberry of Cheveley certain property and lands in Cheveley for a term of twelve years. The lessors reserved the right to keep four hundred sheep, access to a dovehouse, and all timber. The lessee was to inhabit the premises and allow the lessors the use of half of them. None of the parties to keep more than a certain number of sheep upon the land. The lessee was to cut no timber. Witnessed...
Dates: 23 Mar. 1662 (Either 1662 or 1663?)
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Lease (copy), Great Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3767
Scope and Contents John Carter of Stapleford, Cambridgeshire, farmer, leases to Thomas Norman of Great Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire, farmer, a farmhouse with 44+ acres of arable land in Great Wilbraham, formerly in the occupation of Luke Norman deceased, father of Thomas, from Lady Day last for eight years at an annual rent of #41. Clauses regulating crop rotations. Carter undertakes any necessary repair work on the farm buildings. Copy of indenture, 3 pages, copy of mark and seal of Norman, witnessed by...
Dates: 23 May 1835
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Lease (copy), Haddenham, Cambridgeshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1942
Scope and Contents For an undisclosed consideration, Charles Plumptre DD, archdeacon of Ely and parson of the church of Haddenham, Cambridgeshire, leases to Evereld Hustler of Henrietta St, Cavendish Square, spinster the parsonage and rectory of Haddenham, with all appurtenances, for three lives (the future George III, then aged 15, Thomas Abney esq of the Inner Temple, aged 28, and John Gwyer, aged 17) at a yearly rent of #59 13s 4d. The lease requires payments of rent to be made on feast days 'according to...
Dates: 24 Dec. 1753 (27 George II)
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Lease (copy), Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1610
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George Brigham of Waterbeach lets to James Fromant of the same certain lands in Waterbeach for a term of six years. James Fromant is to have his equal proportion of folding of the flock if any is kept by George Brigham; if not he is to be abated five shillings of the yearly rent; James Fromant is to lay so much dung upon each acre. Two clauses of detailed agreement are added. Witnessed by Andrew Linton and Samuell Clements.

Dates: 16 Mar. 1669
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Lease, Cottenham, Cambridgeshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1630
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The Provost and Scholars of King's College, Cambridge, let to John Saintey of Cottenham certain lands in the same for a term of years. The timber is reserved for the use of the lessors. Part of the rent is to be paid in kind. The tenant is not to alienate the land.

Dates: 2 Dec. 1818
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Whittle, Frank, Sir, 1907 - 1996 (Knight, Air Commodore, aeronautical engineer) 6
Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell 5
Blake, William, 1757-1827 (engraver, artist, and poet) 5
British Overseas Airways Corporation 5
Clare College, Cambridge 5
Gow, Andrew Sydenham Farrar, 1886-1978 (Classical Scholar) 5
James, I, 1566-1625 (King of Great Britain and Ireland) 5
Keynes, John Neville, 1852-1949 (logician, economist and university administrator) 5
Lethbridge, Thomas Charles, 1901-1971 (archaeologist and parapsychologist) 5
Longmore, Laura, fl1948 - 1998 5
Macalister, Alexander, 1844-1899 (Professor of Anatomy and surgeon) 5
Madden, Sir Frederic, 1801-1873 (Knight, palaeographer and librarian) 5
Maxwell, James Clerk, 1831-1879 (Professor, scientist, physicist) 5
Minns, Sir Ellis Hovell, 1874-1953 (Knight, archaeologist, orientalist and linguist) 5
Newton, Alfred, 1829-1907 (zoologist) 5
Saunderson, Nicholas, 1682-1739 (mathematician) 5
Scholfield, Alwyn Faber, 1884-1969 (Cambridge University Librarian) 5
Smith, Sir (Walter Buchanan-, 1879-1944, Knight) 5
Soames, Mary, Dame, 1922 - 2014 (née Churchill, writer, wife of Baron Soames) 5
Stevenson, Anne, 1933-2020 (poet) 5
Stokes, Sir George Gabriel, 1819-1903 (1st Baronet and physicist) 5
Thomas, Harold Beken, 1888 - 1971 (colonial administrator and historian) 5
Welch, John Hope, 1942- (poet, publisher and teacher) 5
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626 (Viscount St Alban, lord chancellor, politician and philosopher) 4
Bartholomew, Augustus Theodore, 1882-1933 (librarian) 4
Bartlett, Sir Frederic Charles, 1886-1969 (Knight and psychologist) 4
Bateson, William, 1861-1926 (biologist) 4
Blunden, Edmund Charles, 1896-1974 (poet) 4
Cambridge University Press 4
Charles, II, 1630-1685 (King of Great Britain and Ireland) 4
Churchill College 4
Elizabeth, I, 1533-1603 (Queen of England and Ireland) 4
Elizabeth, II, 1926-2022 (Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) 4
Falconer, John, 1951 (Curator of photographs, British Library) 4
Foreign Office 4
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