Lease indenture, Whittlesford, Cambridgeshire

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 12 MS Doc.443
  • Dates of Creation
      6 Nov. 1599
  • Language of Material
      English .
  • Physical Description
      1 item(s) vellum vellum

Scope and Content

Whereas Gyles Ascham of Cambridge and Thomas Ascham of Walthamstow, Essex, are seised of the rectory of Whittlesford and the lands appertaining for life by conveyance from the Queen by Letters Patent dated 6 July 1583; Gyles Ascham lets to Robert Simond of Whittlesford, the elder, and Robert Simond his son and heir the rectory and lands for a term of sixty years, if Gyles and Thomas live so long, at a peppercorn rent. Witnesses: Robert Ewyne, Andrew Byre.

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Acquisition Information

Purchased from G. David, Cambridge ('Lot 607'), 9 May 1917

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Related Material

cf. B. F. C. Atkinson, 'Whittlesford Rectory and the Askham Family', Cambridgeshire Antiquarian Society Proceedings 32 (1932), pp. 47-50