ECR 38 285

ECR 38 285

Property in Buckinghamshire: Counterpart of lease

Item

10 October 1595

Counterpart of lease, by the Provost and College to Bartholomew Hill, of Eton, wharfinger, upon surrender of a lease to Richard Hill, the lessee's father, deceased, of a wharf and wharf close called the Playing Leaze wharfe, together with a little cottage built thereon called the wharf howse, and with all those their Rodd Eightes and Torres set in the Thames near Eton parcel of the Eightes and Torres belonging to their water or weir called Bullockes locke alias Bullox waire, that is all between the weir house set in the Thames to the south and a close of the queen belonging to Upton farm and a close of Christopher Barkers, esquire, called Gaine crofte to the north, with freedom to carry and recarry upon the water of the Thames with boat or otherwise and to tie boats there on the water, together with the fishing of Bullockes locke from a mound stone laid at the time of the division thereof as far as the water of the College stretches to south and west, the premises being in the parishes of Eton and Upton, and late in the tenure of Richard Hill and Nicholas Butler, deceased. From Michaelmas last for 21 years. Rent 40s and 3 bushels of wheat and 3 quarters 4 bushels of malt or their money equivalent.
Signature of lessee.
Witness: Benjamin Owtred, bursar's clerk.
Seal, round, 12mm, brownish red wax, on doubled tag. A device.