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ECR 32 005

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ECR 32 005

Title

Creeting, Suffolk: Indenture of lease

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Item

Date

10 May 1609

Content description

Indenture of lease, by the Provost and College, to John Ryvers, of Creeting St Marie, yeoman, upon surrender of the foregoing lease which had been assigned to him, of two mills in Creeting, one being called "the haute mylle" and the other "the fullinge mylne", with certain meadows and hams adjoining. From Lady day last for 21 years. Rent £6 8s 10½d and 4 quearters 6 bushels of wheat and 6 quarters 4 bushels 2 pecks 1 gallon of malt or their money equivalent.
Signature of lessee.
Witnesses: Benjamin Owtred, public notary, Edmund Poole.
Seal, round, 13mm, red wax, on doubled tag. A fleur de lys.
Endorsement that the meadows and hams and marshes are as follows:
one long meadow lying on the west side of the river containing 7 acres.
one meadow called the marsh wherein is a tynt containing 8 acres.
4 hams whereof 2 lie adjoining the hawlt mill, the other 2 adjoining the fulling mill, containing in all 3 acres.
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