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ECR 55 099

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ECR 55 099

Title

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

Level

Item

Date

18 December 1616

Extent & medium

1 manuscript

Content description

Counterpart of lease, by the Provost and College, to George Dorsett, Penn, husbandman, upon surrender of a lease to William Grove, 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.
Traces of seal, red wax, on doubled tag.
Witnesses: Benjamin Owtred, Thomas Dickinson, John Streete.
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