ECR 53 033
ECR 53 033
Shipdham and East Bradenham, Norfolk: Counterpart of lease
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5 December 1850
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Counterpart of lease, by the Provost and College, to Wyrley Birch, for £1581 13s 9d 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, and all those 180 acres 1 rood 34 perches in Shipdham and East Bradenham, 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: Henry William Birch, of 68 Lincoln's Inn Fields.
Seal, octagonal, 22 x 19mm, red wax, applied. Armorial, Birch impaling? Crest Birch.
Signature of lessee.
Witness: Henry William Birch, of 68 Lincoln's Inn Fields.
Seal, octagonal, 22 x 19mm, red wax, applied. Armorial, Birch impaling? Crest Birch.
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