Copy of a Lease

The Revd. Benjamin Wilson of Wakefield, clerk, Thomas Norton, Richard Buxton, William Charnock and William Nevison, all of Wakefield, merchants, (trustees appointed for the disposal of the charity given to the poor clothworkers of Wakefield in the will of Ann Hutchinson, widow, deceased of the first part; John Taylor of Gate Fulford, esq., of the second part.
A messuage with a fold garth and grass garth in Gate Fulford; a meadow close in Gate Fulford, called the Ing Close, containing 8 acres 1 rood; 2 closes of land, formerly in one close, called Fishergate Closes (als. Fishergate Close), near York; several pieces of arable land, containing 18 acres , in Gate Fulford fields, described as follows: one land lying upon a flat called the Church Flat, containing 1 acre; 2 lands lying together upon a flat called the Three Roods to the Waterward, containing 1½ acres; a land lying upon a flat called the Fishergate Roods, containing 1 rood; a land lying upon a flat called the Greenhews (als. Spittle Butts), containing ½ acres; one other land upon the Greenhews, containing ½ acres; a land lying upon a flat called East Hawfield, containing 1 acre 1 rood; a gaire lying upon a flat called the Harpes, containing ½ acres; a land lying upon the same flat, containing 3 roods; a land lying upon a flat called the Imers, containing ½ acres; a land lying upon a flat called the Averills, containing 3 roods; 2 other lands lying together on the same flat, containing 3 acres; 6 lands lying together upon the same flat, containing 3 acres 3 roods; 4 lands lying together upon a flat called the Thornlands (als. Cross butts), containing 2 acres; a but (?) lying upon the same Furshott near the Cross called Cross butt; a land lying in the Damlands, containing 3 roods; another land in the Damlands, containing 3 roods, late in the tenure of John Taylor.
During the natural life of John Taylor.
£20 per annum; £2 4s. per annum (payable to the Crown).
John Taylor agrees to fence off and enclose with hedges the above lands according to the tenure of a recent enclosure by Act of Parliament.

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