Lease, North Leigh, Oxfordshire

In consideration of #85 in hand, and of a further #25 to be paid at Michaelmas next, Sir William Pope of Wroxton, Oxfordshire, leases to Thomas Brucks of South More, Longworth, Berkshire, husbandman, to Brucks's sister Elizabeth Brucks, and to Edward Riggins, younger son of Edward Riggins of Marcham, Berkshire, a tenement with associated copyhold yardland in North Leigh, Oxfordshire, formerly in the tenure of Widow Townesend, deceased, for 99 years or their three lives at an annual rent of 12s 2d. Topping of oak, ash, and elm prohibited. Conditional prohibition of subletting. Specification of heriot. See Doc 3943. Indenture, with the mark and seal of Thomas Brucks, witnessed by John Wattson, Antony ?Lighfild, John Younge, and John Johnson. Endorsed in a seventeenth-century hand: 'This ys void'.

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Presented by Lord Fairhaven, 9 April 1949

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