ECR 52 159
ECR 52 159
Asthall and Fulbrook, Oxfordshire: Counterpart of lease
Item
15 January 1900
Counterpart of lease, by the Provost and College, to Charles Clapton, of Kencott, farmer, of a farm in Asthall. From 29 September 1899 on a yearly tenancy. Rent £80 by quarterly
payments, and £40 for every acre of meadow pasture, down pasture, gorse or woodlands, which may be mutual consent of the parties be laid down to pasture or wood or which shall
without the written consent of the landlords or their agent be pared broken up or converted into tillage, free of all rates and taxes, the land tax and landlord’s property tax and tithe only
excepted, with interest at the rate of 4% on any sum the lessors may spend in erecting new buildings or altering present ones, and to be payable and recoverable as rent. A schedule describes the lands which amount to 144a 0r 12p.
Signature of lessee.
Witness: Thomas Walter, auctioneer and estate agent, Burford.
payments, and £40 for every acre of meadow pasture, down pasture, gorse or woodlands, which may be mutual consent of the parties be laid down to pasture or wood or which shall
without the written consent of the landlords or their agent be pared broken up or converted into tillage, free of all rates and taxes, the land tax and landlord’s property tax and tithe only
excepted, with interest at the rate of 4% on any sum the lessors may spend in erecting new buildings or altering present ones, and to be payable and recoverable as rent. A schedule describes the lands which amount to 144a 0r 12p.
Signature of lessee.
Witness: Thomas Walter, auctioneer and estate agent, Burford.
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