Lease, Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 12 MS Doc.1072
  • Dates of Creation
      15 Feb. 1722
  • Language of Material
      English .
  • Physical Description
      1 item(s) vellum vellum

Scope and Content

Alice Rogers, widow, of Gt. Shelford, and Christopher her son, for 5/-, leases to Thomas Sell, yeoman, of Stableforth [Stapleford?] and Margaret his wife, half an acre of pasture in Gt. Shelford next the ground of William Kempe, S., abutting on Horningsey Way, N., and the other head on Crow Lane, to have and to hold...to convert use in to possession. Signed by Christopher Rogers and Alice Rogers, his wife, 2 seals. Witnessed by Anne Carrow and James King.

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Acquisition Information

Purchased from E. Williams, 37 Newtown Road, Hove, 8 May 1922

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