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RefNoKFE/6/333
AltRefNoFE 333
TitleTetworth (and Wistow) leases: Lease for 12 years
Description1. J.Peldley of Tetworth, Esq. 2. Thomas Burgis of Potton, Bedfordshire, yeoman. Messuage or farmhouse near Tetworth Green. Home Close andjoining (5.5acres) Great Cannons Close, 209acres. Wateryards Close, 6acres. Dennys Close, 2acres. Home Sand Field Close net Ash Lane 11.5acres. Nawley Close, 3acres. 208acres arable leys meadow in open fields. Right of grazing 12 cows in the cow pasture. Close from 1 May to St. Simon and St. Jude, and sheep from St. Simon and St. Jude to Lady Day. All occupied 1 ahd H. Fage. Except: Little piece of ground lately taken out and fenced from Wateryard. Cowgrove occupied 1. Furze Ley. Furze Leys Close alias Field Close adjoinig Furze Leys. Land and Leys in Netherfield alias Lawfield between Furze Close and hedges and ditch of Mr. Lane's Closes. Lands and leys in further part of Netherfield and Middle Field. All timber. Rents: £60 per year payable half-yearly to 1, as Lord of manor of Everton-cum-Tetworth. 2 couple of good fat capons at Christmas. £5 per year for every acre of meadow, pasture or ancient sward or ley ground (except Great Cannons Close so as to take five crops thereof) converted to tillage. Covenants: 1. is to build dovecot near barns, to pave hall floor in messuage, to make a cellar or buttery, to set down a pump near the messuage, to plant ground between messuage and mote with fruit trees 2. is to keep property in repair, to pay usual taxes, to keep land in good heart and use all dung and straw etc. produced upon the property and not to sell any except to 1 or unless he finds for every load of straw one shilling worth of good dung or compost. Not to cross crop or third crop or sow it above 2 years or alter the seasons of the arable land, but leasve a third part fallow according to the seasons. To lay down and spread 3acres milehills and outhills in pasture and mowing grounds and to keep down there already rased under penalty of 40s for every acre not so laid down. To plant 50 willow, sallows or poplars about the ponds water courses or ditches. Not to cut down any trees: penalty £10 for every oak and £5 for every other tree or 5 pole of quick or furze hedge: nor to top any tree: penalty 40s for each topped. Not to convert Great Cannons to tillage, except to have 5 crops of it in first 9 years and to sow clover and ryegrass with 5th crop. Endorsements: 1) The land between Furze Leys Close and Mr. Lane's hedges and ditches reserved to 1 is to extend only as far as the hedge that 1 has set down next to Mr. Lanes hedges and ditches a driftway to the Cow pasture having been left between hedges of 1 and those of Mr. Lane. 2) 1 is not to enclose any more common fields except the six acre piece next Weavely Land. 3) 1 is to put messuage into tenantable repair before 2 is obliged to kep it so.
Date12 March 1712/3
CreatorNameEarl of Feversham
RepositoryHuntingdonshire Archives
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