CO - Choir
- CO/VC - Vicars Choral and Lay Vicars
  - CO/VC/4 - Property
    - CO/VC/4/3 - Property Deeds
      - CO/VC/4/3/1 - Leases and Counterparts for a Messuage or Tenement in the Close (No 14)

CO/VC/4/3/1/10

Reference code

CO/VC/4/3/1/10

Level of description

Item

Title

Lease of a Messuage or Tenement and Garden Situated in the Close Salisbury from the Procurator and Commonalty of Vicars to the Reverend George Lewes Benson

Date

31 Aug 1848

Quantity & Format

1 sheet

Description

Lease between the Procurator and Commonalty of Vicars of the Cathedral Church of Sarum on the one part and the Reverend George Lewes Benson of the Close of Sarum Clerk on the other part. The said Procurator and Commonalty of Vicars lease to the said George Lewes Benson the messuage and tenement with the gardens and appurtenances within the Close fronting on the south to the King's highway within the Close which leads westward towards the Church and abuts on the north upon the walls of the Close, to have and to hold for 40 years. The annual rent was 20 shillings and the further yearly sum of 3 pounds for land tax to be paid at the 4 feasts of the year. The item was previously enclosed within CO/VC/4/3/1/11.

Language

English

Physical Characteristics

Material: parchment

Keywords

Benson, George Lewes
Benson, Edmund
The Close