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ECR 02 048

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ECR 02 048

Title

Piddlehinton, Dorset: Indenture of lease of site of manor

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Item

Date

15 November 1821

Content description

Indenture of lease, for £120 and the surrender of former lease to Thomas Meggs of Piddlehinton, esquire, by the Provost and College to William Mayo, late of Steepleton, co. Dorset, gentleman, of the site of the manor of Piddlehinton, and a cottage with a garden, orchard and backside, excepting all timber on the premises, and all ash trees on the westdown and the water mills and brooks belonging to the same, for a rent of £4 9s 10d and 252 gallons of wheat and 324 gallons of malt or their money equivalent at the current rate of the Windsor market, together with £4 14s being the amount of the land tax redeemed by the lessors. The lessee to provide lodging for the lessors or their Officers for 2 days and 3 nights, not more than twice in one year, and to receive all rents of assise, fines, heriots and other profits of the courts of the manors of Piddlehinton and Charlton Parva, and account for the same to the College twice yearly. To hold for 20 years from Michaelmas last.
Seal of the College, red wax, papered, on doubled tag.
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