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ECR 38 231

Reference code

ECR 38 231

Title

Property in Buckinghamshire: Counterpart of lease

Level

Item

Date

30 October 1611

Content description

Counterpart of lease, by the Provost and College to William Burnham, citizen and skinner of London, upon surrender of the foregoing, of a close of meadow in Eton between the queen's stables on the south and a close of Andrew Wyndesor on the north; a weir with an eight and a house thereon, together with all Rodd aightes or torres in the Thames near Eton, parcel of the aightes and torres belonging to the water called Bullocke's Lock or Bullock's Wayer, that is to say all those rodd aightes or torres adjoining the house aight, on the north part whereof runneth a part of the Thames and likewise on the south runneth another part of the Thames, and also all waters, with fishing in the same, belonging to the said lock or weir, from a mound stone laid and fastened by the bank side upon the ground called the wharf close so far to the east down stream as the College waters stretch. From Michaelmas last for 21 years. Rent 33s 4d and 4 bushels of wheat and 2 quarters 5½ bushels of malt or their money equivalent.
Signature of lessee.
Witnesses: William Jumper, John Enderby, Thomas Dickinson.
Traces of seal, red wax, on doubled tag.
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