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ECR 55 098

Reference code

ECR 55 098

Title

Property in Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and Crondal, Hampshire: Counterpart of lease

Level

Item

Date

1 March 1600

Extent & medium

1 manuscript

Content description

Counterpart of lease, by the Provost and College, to William Grove, Penn, husbandman, of their "springe or coppis" lying next to his dwelling house in Penn, containing 5 acres, and another "springe or coppis" lying next the church adjoining the field called Hill Mott field, containing 3 acres and all woods and underwoods growing thereupon, except 230 trees now marked and sealed, which are reserved to the lessors, to wit 150 trees in the greater "springe or coppis" and 80 trees in the lesser, with free ingress, egress and regress to cut and carry away the said trees, and except all young saplings of oak, ash, elm, and beech upon the premises as shall not exceed 10 inches in bigness, to be measured 1½ feet above the stem. From Michaelmas last 20 years. Rent 40s.
Mark of lessee.
Doubled tag for seal, which is missing.
Witnesses: Benjamin Owtred, Thomas Hoddison.
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