Lease, Showell, Oxfordshire

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 12 MS Doc.3933
  • Dates of Creation
      10 May 1592 (34 Elizabeth I)
  • Language of Material
      English .
  • Physical Description
      1 item(s) vellum vellum

Scope and Content

In consideration of #600 paid to Sir Edmond Anderson, chief justice of common pleas, William Pope esq of Oxford leases to Anthony Cope esq of Hanwell, Oxfordshire, Shoell Grange in Sho[w]ell, Oxfordshire, now or late in the occupation of Robert Payne, for 21 years from 1 May 1593, at an annual rent of #19. 1Indenture, signed and sealed by Cope, delivered to John Bayly to the use of Pope, witnessed by William Knyght, Robert Daye, and 'all the tenants of Wroxton'. Seventeenth-century endorsement of identification.

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Acquisition Information

Presented by Lord Fairhaven, 9 April 1949

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