CO/CH/5/1/31/5

CO/CH/5/1/31/5

Item

Counterpart of Lease from William Macdonald and the Dean and Chapter to Messrs Robert and George Short

5 Oct 1825

1 sheet

Counterpart of indenture made between the reverend William Macdonald Clerk, Canon Residentiary and Master Warden or Governor of the Choristers and the Dean and Chapter of the one part and Robert Short of New Sarum in the county of Wilts Grocer and George Short of the same city Grocer devisees of the premises hereinafter mentioned named in the last will and testament of George Short the Elder Grocer deceased of the other part. The said Warden and Dean and Chapter grant unto the said Robert Short and George Short a messuage or tenement with the houses and buildings belonging to it called or known by the sign of the vine in New Sarum in a certain place there called the Marketplace bounded on the east with the Marketplace, on the west with the river, on the north with the lands late of Samuel Eyre esquire and since of George Short deceased and on the south with the lands of the Mayor and Commonalty. The said premises are now in the occupation of Robert Short and George Short and are particularly delineated in the map in the margin of these presents. To have and to hold for 40 years. The annual rent was £10 to be paid at the two usual feasts of the year in equal portions. There is a coloured plan. Sealed and delivered being first duly stamped in the presence of William Hayward.

English

Material: parchment

Macdonald, William
Short, Robert
Short, George
Marketplace