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RefNoKFE/4/129
AltRefNoFE 129
TitleLease for 12 years
Description1. Honourable Francis Needham of Waresley. 2. J. Alex. Walker late of Teynham, Kent now of Waresley, farmer. Pieces of land in Waresley and Gamlingay, 486 acres, with buildings (except reserved to lessor:- all timber and wood. gravel and brick earth-for which lessor will make 50/- deduction in rent for every acre worked sporting rights planting trees etc. -for which lessor will make 50/- deduction in rent) Rent:- £704 per year quarterly. Hedges not to be plashed when of less growth then 12 years and not more than one sixth to be cut down in any one year. Tenant to find wheat or rye straw for the thatching and clay fo claying and irons for repairing the gates and the usual allowance of beer for workmen during repairs. Tenant to carry 40 chaldrons of coals to the mansion house per year and also perform carriage for building and repair materials. Tenant to lay down to grass not less than 80 acres within first 7 years -penalty of £40 per acre. Crop rotation: Not more than 1/3 arable to be sown with wheat and rye. Not more than 1/4 arable to be sown with barley and oats. Not less than 1/6 arable to be sown with drilled beans or peas or tares well weeded by horses and hand hoeing. Not less than 1/6 arable to be clean summer fallow, or sown with turnips or coleseed. Not less than 1/6 arable to be sown with artificial grass. Condition in what crops are to left at end of lease: Not less than 1/6 to be sown with turnips or coleseed on land ploughed not less than 4 times and twice hoed. Not less than 1/6 to be sown with artificial grass of 1 year layer(?) Not less than to be sown 1/6 to be sown with artificial bean stubble. Lessor is to pay for crops left and hay stored. For the winter the tenant will have to buy hay to support his stock: the quantity to be bought is to be assessed by arbitration; a similar quantity is to be left on the premises at the end of the lease to be paid for by lessor according to the selling price and any remainder according to the feeding price. Tenant is to notify lessor when he sows Spring corn in last year of the lease so that lessor may sow other seed along with it if he wishes. Tenant to underdrain where nessecary with tile or wood supplied by lessor. Lessors may enter on yards and on fallow on which the turnips or coleseed crop has failed in June in last year of lease and on seeds of one years lease? on 1 September to prepare them. Tenant not to take 2 successive crops of white corn (wheat, rye, barley, oats). Tenant not mow pasture or meadow for 2 successive years without manuring. Lessor to erect, before 10 August 1814, a farm house granaries, barns, stables for not less than 16 horses. Lessor to compensate tenant for damage by game if it amunts to an acre. The land let is free from tithe (except 4acres in Gamlingay) but if the Vicar of Waresley refuses to let the tithes to Needham he will compensate the tenant.
Date11 September 1813
CreatorNameEarl of Feversham
RepositoryHuntingdonshire Archives
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