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ECR 43 014

Reference code

ECR 43 014

Title

Hanging Langford, Wiltshire: Counterpart of lease

Level

Item

Date

28 November 1659

Content description

Counterpart of lease, by the Provost and College, to Richard Rowden and Joell Rowden, of Hanging Langford, yeomen, upon surrender of the foregoing, of the manor or priory of Hanging Langford. From Michaelmas 1658 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 1658 for 21 years. Rent 12d and 1 peck of wheat and 2 pecks of malt or their money equivalent.
Signature of lessee.
Witnesses: Henry James, John Hollenshed.
Two seals, red wax, on doubled tags.
(1) Round, 11mm. R R with foliage (Richard Rowden).
(2) A bad impression.
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