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RefNoKHAC5/5623/1/16
AltRefNo5623/1/16
TitleLease for twenty-one years
DescriptionBetween:
1) John Groome and Edmund Middleton, collectors for the Highways in and about the town of Ramsey
2) Thomas Hampshier of Ramsey, upholsterer
One little pightle and six short leyes adjoining the north side of the same lying in a little field called "Powles Croft" in Ramsey and now in the tenure of (2).
Which said pightle and leyes were given to the town of Ramsey by Joan Palmer, widow, to be let and the yearly rent thereof to be bestowed yearly towards the mending of the highways.
Paying to (1) and their successors in that office the sum of twenty shillings per annum at the two usual times of the year namely the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary [25 March] and the Feast of St Michael the Archangel [29 September] in equal portions.
If the rent is unpaid eight days after any of the feast days than (1) or their successors shall re-enter the said premises and retain and repossess the same to the use of the town of Ramsey, and expel (2) and his heirs utterly.
And (2) and his heirs promise that during the term of twenty-one years they shall not cut down or spoil any trees now growing in or upon any of the premises, nor "otherwyse lopp, topp, or shread any trees or quickset there, but at seasonable tymes, And, to be spent about the fensinge of the said Pightle, and not otherwayes."
Sealed subscribed and delivered on the 14 October 13 & 49 James I [1615] in the presence of John Hadden, Henrye Nettleton (X) and William Maney.
Paper; English
|Originally one pendant seal, now missing
Date14 October 1615
CreatorNameManor of Ramsey
RepositoryHuntingdonshire Archives
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