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ECR 54 033 A

Reference code

ECR 54 033 A

Title

Eton, Buckinghamshire and other properties: Counterpart of indenture

Level

Item

Date

11 April 1514

Extent & medium

1 manuscript

Content description

Counterpart of indenture between Master Roger Lupton, Provost of Eton, and Joan Williams, of Eton, widow. By deed of 1 April 1508 the said Joan granted two tenements in Eton to Hugh Sterkey, esquire, and master William Cowper, and declared her intent concerning the same, by indenture of the same date, that the grantees should hold the premises to her use for her life and after her death to the use of the Provost and College of Eton. Not it is agreed that the Provost and College shall hold one of the tenements from the date of the present, that is to say the tenement that Edmund Mereward lately held of the said Joan, the bursars of the College paying yearly 13s 4d at the four usual terms by even portions. With right of re-entry if the rent is unpaid by the space of 15 days. The college to undertake all repairs and pay the quit rent on the same, and not to "medele chalenge ne clayme" the tenement in which the said Joan dwells.
Seal, round, 13mm, red wax, on doubled tag. W.
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