ECR 53 003
Reference code
ECR 53 003
Title
Shipdham and East Bradenham, Norfolk: Indenture of lease
Level
Item
Date
29 August 1737
Extent & medium
1 manuscript
Content description
Indenture of lease, by Charles, Lord Lynn, Baron of Lynn Regis, to Alexander Paine, of Shipdham, yeoman, of a messuage and farm in Shipdham, late in the occupation of William Boulter, situated there or in neighbouring parishes, and a parcel of land in Shipdham commonly called Horse Row, containing 46 acres, late in the occupation of the said Boulter; except all timber, wood and underwood (bushes and thorns cut "at seasonable times and in an husbandlike and careful manner and used for the necessary fenceing stuff" being excepted from this reservation); also reserving free ingress, egress and regress for the lessor "with men, horses, carts and carriages as well for the viewing and repairing of the said premises and laying materials thereupon for that purpose as for the toping, loping, hewing, sawing, coutting down, stubbing up, converting, taking and carrying away any of the said wood, timber or underwood..., and also for fishing, fowleing, hawking and hunting". From 29 September next for 21 years. Rent £130 8s. The lessee not to take more than two crops of any corn or grain successively (turnips not to be accounted a crop) off any part of the premises "without sumertilling or laying down the same in an husbandlike manner and being so laid down that he the said Alexander Paine ... shall and will cause such land to lye one yeare before the breaking up the same again". The lessee shall "spend and consume all the hay, straw, stover and fodder which shall be renewing, growing, arising and increasing upon and from the said demised premises and every part thereof during the first twenty years of the term upon some part of the same premises, And the much, sullage, dung and compost thereof ariseing or from the cattle to be fed or foddered therwith shall and will in an husbandlike manner lay and bestow upon some part of the said premises (except the muck to be ariseing and made in the last year of the said term which shall be in a husbandlike manner left in the yards or upon some convenient part of the said premises turned up in heaps at proper and seasonable times in the last year" by the lessee), with provisions about the threshing and leaving of the corn in that last year. The lessor shall have the liberty of sowing clover or other grass seeds upon any of the demised lands which shall be sown with barley or oats in the last year. The lessee shal not "plow digg, break up or put in tilth any of the meadow grounds... otherwise than for draining the same in an husbandlike manner", upon paid of 40s for every acre so ploughed.
With penalties for the cutting of timber. The lessee to pay the tythes of the lord's closes.
Signature of lessee.
Witnesses: Edward Case, John Dodman.
Fragment of seal, red wax, applied.
Two endorsements:
(1) Agreement between Charles Lord Viscount Townshed, Baron of King's Lynn, formerly called Lord Lynn, and the said Paine that the latter may convert into tillage the Further Close and parts of Parkhill Close and Middle Close, with provisions as to crops and their sequence and manner of sowing. And a renewal of the lease from Michaelmas last for 21 years, at the same rent 15 October 1750. Signature of lessee. Witnesses: Thomas Fenn, William .... Hawys [?].
(2) In consideration that Viscount Townshend has given leave for the breaking up of some pasture land, agreement to provide all such good winter corn straw as shall from time to time during this lease be wanting for repairing buildings mentioned in the lease, without any allowance for the same. 8 July 1755.
Mark of Ann Payne, signature of Alexander Payne.
Witness: B Alders, junior.
With penalties for the cutting of timber. The lessee to pay the tythes of the lord's closes.
Signature of lessee.
Witnesses: Edward Case, John Dodman.
Fragment of seal, red wax, applied.
Two endorsements:
(1) Agreement between Charles Lord Viscount Townshed, Baron of King's Lynn, formerly called Lord Lynn, and the said Paine that the latter may convert into tillage the Further Close and parts of Parkhill Close and Middle Close, with provisions as to crops and their sequence and manner of sowing. And a renewal of the lease from Michaelmas last for 21 years, at the same rent 15 October 1750. Signature of lessee. Witnesses: Thomas Fenn, William .... Hawys [?].
(2) In consideration that Viscount Townshend has given leave for the breaking up of some pasture land, agreement to provide all such good winter corn straw as shall from time to time during this lease be wanting for repairing buildings mentioned in the lease, without any allowance for the same. 8 July 1755.
Mark of Ann Payne, signature of Alexander Payne.
Witness: B Alders, junior.
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