ECR 29 063
Reference code
ECR 29 063
Title
Blakenham, Suffolk: Indenture of bargain and sale of woods
Level
Item
Date
15 May 1590
Content description
Indenture of bargain and sale, by the Provost and College, to John Veare for £95, of all those timber trees woods and underwoods standing in one wood called Highfield Wood and on the hills commonly called Kinges Mere Hills near the same wood in Blakenham on the water between the lands of Lord Wentworthe called Calfehaye on the south and the land of the manor of Claydon in part and the land of John Lee called Long Pitle on the north, abutting on the land of the manor of Claydon and the land of John Lee and the land sometime Houells at Hethen Churche Hill on the east and on the arable land of the demesnes of the manor of Blakenham and the land of Lord Wentworth in the tenure of John Hodson on the west. The grantee may cut down and transport all such timber for the space of 4 years from the date of the present, but is to leave so many standills and storers as by the statute for the preservation of woods ought to be left and sufficiently to fence the premises to preserve them from hurt according to the true intent of the statute. If the parcel of the woods growing on the east part of Kingesmere Hill next Cleydon Hall Bottome towards the north exceed the quantity of 2 acres the grantee is to acquit the grantor for the overplus thereof after the rate of £13 6s 8d the acre if he shall happen to sell the said overplus. Signature of grantee. Witnesses: Edmund Tomson and Benjamin Owtred, clerks of the bursars.
Seal, oval, 18 x 16mm, red wax, on doubled tag. Armorial: on a cross a crescent, a chief.
Seal, oval, 18 x 16mm, red wax, on doubled tag. Armorial: on a cross a crescent, a chief.
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