Lease, Bartlow, Cambridgeshire

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  • Reference
    • GB 12 MS Doc.852
  • Dates of Creation
    • 22 Nov. 1678
  • Language of Material
    • English .
  • Physical Description
    • 1 item(s) vellum vellum

Scope and Content

Indenture made between Samuel King, yeoman, of Ashdon, Essex, and Christopher Marshall the younger, citizen and dyer, of the parish of St. Saviour's, Southwark, London. Samuel King for £5 and a yearly peppercorn leases for 1000 years to Christopher Marshall three roods of arable land in Bartlow, Cambs., called Churchmeadowfeild, formerly belonging to Henry Flacke, then to Jeremy Goodwin, then to Henry Story, and so to Samuel King. Signed by Samuel King, his mark. Witnessed by R. Flacke, G. Flacke, and Henry Mathews (his mark).

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Acquisition Information

Purchased from H.R. Moulton, 151 Fleet Street, London, E.C. 4, 27 March 1922

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