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ECR 43 037

Reference code

ECR 43 037

Title

Hanging Langford, Wiltshire: Counterpart of lease

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Item

Date

17 October 1839

Content description

Counterpart of lease, by the Provost and College to William Wyndam, of Dinton House, co. Wilts esquire, for £213 18s, and the surrender of the foregoing, of the moiety of the manor of Hanging Langford. From Old Michaelmas last for 20 years. Rents £5 19s 7d and 263 gallons 1 quart of wheat and 522 gallons of malt or their money equivalent, for the site of the manor of Hanging Longford, and 12d and 2 gallons 1 quart of wheat and 4 gallons 2 quarts of malt or their money equivalent, for the copyhold tenement, together with £9 1s 4d in consideration of the redemption of land tax.
Signature of lessee.
Witness: C Nicholson.
Seal, red wax, applied. A lion's head, erased, within a round arch.

Endorsed with a memorandum the Bursar by letter dated 14 February 1840 promised that a more accurate description of the property should be introduced in any future lease as it appears from the College documents that the moiety of the water mill ceased to be in existence before the year 1776.
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