Lease, Fordham, Cambridgeshire

Thomas Mann, bricklayer, of Jermyn St., St. James's Square, Msex, for 5/- leases for one year to James Mann and John Mann, bricklayers, of Fordham, all that messuage formerly the estate of James and Catherine Leach, both deceased, and late of Stephen Isaacson, grocer, late of Fordham, deceased, and purchased by S.I. on 17 and 18 Oct. 1757, which premises are now in occupation of James Mann, John Shinn, and John Banyard, to enable James and John to convert use into possession. Signed by Thomas Mann, with seal attached. Witnessed by John Cosyn and Robert Pierson.

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

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