In consideration of an annual payment of one shilling (and a further shilling paid to the senior treasurer), the mayor, bailiffs, and burgesses of Cambridge grant to Thomas Leech of Cambridge, gardener, a Licence of free access to Jesus College Close by way of Garlick Fair Lane, and to 'make one small tunnell from the King's Ditch into his ground ... so as not to pervert the main current or stream'. Sealed with corporation seal, duty stamps.
License, Cambridge
This material is held atCambridge University Library
- Reference
- GB 12 MS Doc.3737
- Dates of Creation
- 29 June 1808 (48 George III)
- Language of Material
- English .
- Physical Description
- 1 item(s) vellum vellum
Scope and Content
Access Information
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Acquisition Information
Purchased from Alan Keen, Ltd., London, July 1945
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