ECR 53 035
Reference code
ECR 53 035
Title
Shipdham and East Bradenham, Norfolk: Counterpart of lease
Level
Item
Date
19 December 1857
Extent & medium
3 manuscripts
Content description
Counterpart of lease, by the Provost and College, to Wyrley Birch, for £1594 15s 6d and the surrender of the foregoing, of messuages or tenements, farms, lands and other hereditaments in Shipdham, occupied by John Cordy, Edmund Alpe, Susan Cordy, George Cordy, 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, occupied by Jonathan Abbott, 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, solicitor.
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, solicitor.
Seal, octagonal, 22 x 19mm, red wax, applied. Armorial, Birch impaling? Crest Birch.
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