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RefNoKFE/4/132
AltRefNoFE 132
TitleLease for 15 years
Description1. Francis Earl of Killmorey. 2. John Noble of Graffham, Huntingdonshire, farmer. Wood farm with 25a13p rent £252. Vicarage farm, Waresley -91a1r33p (the lease of this farm is subject to the present vicar, Christopher Wilson, living so long) £128. Covenants:-Timber reserved. £40 per acre for ploughing up pasture without permission. Abatement of 10% on the rent of arable to be made when the London Gazette shows that average prices of wheat is below 28/- per load of 5 bushels. Additional 10% on rent of arable to be paid when price is 45/- per load. Tenant to do repairs, mend hedges, thatch and clay; usual allowances of beer for workmen doing repairs; carriage and repairs materials. Carriage of 10 chaldrons of coals per year to mansion house. Crop system: not more than 1/4 to be sown as wheat. Not more than 1/6 to be sown with barley. Not more than 1/8 to be sown with oats. Not more than 1/8 to be sown with beans, peas and tares. Not more than 1/8 to be sown with turnips (to feed sheep) or fallow. Not more than 2 successive white corn crops to be taken. Flinders Piece, 20a5p belonging to Wood Farm to be liad down to pasture within first four years of lease. Lessor to allow sufficient underwood for any land that required underdraining. At end of term, 1/4 os to be left fallow, 1/4 in artificial grass seed. Guarantee against payment of tithes. Plan included.
Date19 June 1827
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CreatorNameEarl of Feversham
RepositoryHuntingdonshire Archives
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