Lease

by Sir John Pilkington of Westwood, co. Worcester, to William Higgon, for three lives (those of the sons John, William, and George), at an annual rent of £7, with an additional 1/6 in lieu of the traditional "services;" agreement to maintain buildings and to manure land, also to grind all corn at the nearest mill of Sir John Pakington's.

Over twenty years later, on 25 September 1761, Pentre Dafydd was with many other lands of the Pakington possessions, put up for auction at Haverfordwest, and was bought by John Higgon of Beaumaris for £210; but before the contract could be fully fructified, sir John died, and his brother Sir Herbert Perrot Pakington succeeded to his estate, with the result that the lease of possession followed by a full release to John Higgon were not completed before 2 & 3 May, 1763. Even then the documents were not valid without the comprehensive story of the financial commitments of the two brothers Pakington, necessitating the signature as witnesses of an official from the Six Clerks' office in Chnacery Lane, and another from the Exchequer Office at Lincoln's Inn. Even then, matters were not altogether satisfactory - see DIN/109.

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DIN/109.