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ECR 43 013

Reference code

ECR 43 013

Title

Hanging Langford, Wiltshire: Counterpart of lease

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Item

Date

1 May 1649

Content description

Counterpart of lease, by the Provost and College, to John Rowden, of Hanging Langford, yeoman, upon surrender of the foregoing, of the manor or priory of Hanging Langford. From Michaelmas last for 21 years. Rent £5 19s 7d and 3 quarters 5 bushels and 1 peck of wheat and 7 quarters 2 bushels of malt or their money equivalent. And a lease to the same of a certain copyhold messuage or tenement, with an orchard, garden and parcel of meadow, containing 2 acres, in Hanging Langford, which Christopher Horte, of New Sarum, gentleman has surrendered. From Michaelmas last for 21 years. Rent 12d and 1 peck of wheat and 2 pecks of malt or their money equivalent.
Signature of lessee.
Witnesses: George Pretty, Robert Needler, William Barnsby.
Seal, red wax, on doubled tag, a bad impression. Perhaps armorial.
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