ECR 53 026
Reference code
ECR 53 026
Title
Shipdham and East Bradenham, Norfolk: Indenture of lease
Level
Item
Date
7 December 1827
Extent & medium
4 manuscripts
Content description
Indenture of lease, by the Provost and College, for £1800 and the surrender of the remainder of a term of 20 years by virtue of a lease to the Rev. Thomas Lane Freer, clerk, of the manor of East Wretham exchanged by virtue of an Act of 6 George IV with Wyrley Birch of Wretham Hall, esquire, to the said Birch of messuages or tenements, farms, lands and other hereditaments in Shipdham containing 878 acres 2 roods 33 perches commonly called Park Farm, now in the occupation of Samuel Lock, Fuller Peck, John Cordy and Matthew Yull, and all those 180 acres 1 rood 34 perches in Shipdham and East Bradenham in the occupation of Hugh Boughen, reserving unto the lessors all manner of timber trees, with liberty of ingress, egress and regress, as well for felling and carrying the same as for viewing the premises. From old Michaelmas day last for 20 years. Rent £37 9s 3d and 1467 gallons of wheat and 1458 gallons of malt or their money equivalent, and an additional yearly rent of £40. The lessee to provide entertainment for the lessors or their servants coming to the College business for two days and three nights once a year. The lessee within three years to make a true and perfect terrier or book of survey. A schedule sets out the property, giving occupiers, names of fields and acreage.
Doubled tag for the College seal, which has been cut away.
Doubled tag for the College seal, which has been cut away.
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