CO/CH/5/1/36/20

CO/CH/5/1/36/20

Item

Counterpart of Lease from William Coxe and the Dean and Chapter to Mr Leonard Lawes

10 May 1808

1 sheet

Counterpart of indenture made between William Coxe Clerk and Master Warden or Governor of the Choristers and the Dean and Chapter owners and proprietors of the hereditaments hereinafter described of the one part and Leonard Lawes of Tilshead in the county of Wiltshire yeoman of the other part. The said Master and Dean and Chapter grant unto the said Leonard Lawes a messuage or tenement with the barns, stables, outhouses, garden and premises together with the several pieces or parcels of arable and pasture land in Tilshead containing by estimation 126 acres and 3 roods and now in the renting of Leonard Lawes as tenant to the Master and Dean and Chapter together with all houses, outhouses, edifices, ways, paths, passages, sheep, leases, advantages, hereditaments and appurtenances (except all trees, wood and underwood). To have and to hold for 12 years. The annual rent was £63 on the two usual feasts of the year in equal portions. Sealed and delivered, being first stamped, in the presence of Richard Tucker.

English

Material: parchment

Coxe, William
Lawes, Leonard
Tilshead