Lease, North Leigh, Oxfordshire

In consideration of #110, Sir William Pope of Wroxton, Oxfordshire, leases to Thomas Bruckes of North Leigh, Oxfordshire, husbandman, and to Bruckes's wife Friswide a tenement and associated copyhold yardland in North Leigh, formerly in the tenure of the late Widow Townsend, reserving timber rights over oak, ash, and elm trees (the lessees may lop but may not top), for 99 years or three lives (those of the Bruckes and of Thomas's sister Elizabeth Bruckes), at an annual rent of 12s 2d. A heriot of the 'best good liveing or dead' is to be paid at the death of any of the three lives, and the lessees are to plant 3 oak, ash, or elm trees on the property each year. See Doc 3941. Indenture, with the mark and seal of Thomas Bruckes, witnessed by Martin ?Tustian, Henry Bates, and Antoni Lilfld [sic]. Seal wanting. Endorsed in a seventeenth-century hand: 'This ys void'.

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Presented by Lord Fairhaven, 9 April 1949

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