ECR 48 006
Reference code
ECR 48 006
Title
Mapledurham, Oxfordshire: Copy of lease
Level
Item
Date
20 August 1618
Extent & medium
13 folios
Content description
Copy of lease, by Sir Richard Blounte, of Mapledurham, Knight, to Richard Blounte, one of his younger sons, of the Miller's House in Mapledurham, with orchard and garden belonging and a close of pasture adjoining, and those closes of arable, lying above the hill, called Spelmers, and the water mill and the fishing and other profits of the mill stream from a place called Hardwicke to the mill and thence to the west end of the church paiell (pale), and from Burge Locke to the end of certain pieces of ground compassed on every side by the water called the Greate Aights, together with the said Aights and all the Aight lying between them and the lock aforesaid, also that little close or pasture adjoining the mill called the Chalkinge Place, and a meadow called the Mill Gore, and 1½ acres in the Ley Feilde over against the house of widow Howses, and 3 parcels of arable in the Hen Feilde containing 2 acres all which premises were lately in the tenure of Robert Birde, deceased, and are now in the tenures of ... Franklyn and Anthony Walles; and common and common of pasture in the fields and commonable places. From Michaelmas 1631, for 99 years. Rent 40s. Lease also of a messuage in Mapledurham, now or late in the tenure of Lawrence Tovey, from the expiry of Tovey's copyhold thereof for 99 years. Rent 31s 4d.
This lease to be included in a fine to be levied, embracing leases also to Henry and William Blounte, Richard's brothers.
Witnesses: George Browne, Francis Austin, Gabriel Cox, the younger, Thomas Taylor.
A schedule, sewn onto the sixth folio, contains a question by William Day concerning the rights of the tenant of the second property in the matter of felling timber, with an opinion by Robert Atkyns.
This lease to be included in a fine to be levied, embracing leases also to Henry and William Blounte, Richard's brothers.
Witnesses: George Browne, Francis Austin, Gabriel Cox, the younger, Thomas Taylor.
A schedule, sewn onto the sixth folio, contains a question by William Day concerning the rights of the tenant of the second property in the matter of felling timber, with an opinion by Robert Atkyns.
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