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ECR 53 029

Reference code

ECR 53 029

Title

Shipdham and East Bradenham, Norfolk: Counterpart of lease

Level

Item

Date

19 December 1836

Extent & medium

3 manuscripts

Content description

Counterpart of lease, by the Provost and College, to Wyrley Birch, for £1999 19s and the surrender of the foregoing, 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.
Signature of lessee.
Witness: James Brown, clerk to Messrs Hoare, bankers, Fleet Street.
Seal, octagonal, 22 x 19mm, red wax, applied. Armorial, Birch impaling? Crest Birch.
PRUDENTIA SIMPLICITATE.
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