Lease and Counterpart Lease

Scope and Content

Lessee: John Warburton of Bowdon and of Manchester salt dealer.

Tenement nos.: 1A, 2B1, 6 & 9.

Property: 3 cottages or dwelling-houses and a smithy in Bowdon now in the occupation of Samuel Pearson, James Lightfoot and Thomas Goolden as undertenants, with the use of the threshing bay and fold in common with John Hall, and half of the croft adjoining Okell's, now a garden occupied by Samuel Pearson; also fields and parcels of land in Bowdon called the Well Croft on the Downs, the Lower or Further Coe Field, the Black Field, the Little White Leach, the Higher and Lower Great White Leaches and the Further Bow Hey (9 a. 3 r. 13 p.); also 2 cottages or dwelling-houses on Bowdon Downs now occupied by Peter Shaw and Mrs Jones as undertenants, and fields thereto belonging (but now in the actual occupation of Warburton) called the two loonts in the Church Field and Jones's High Knowle Field (4 a. 1 r. 18 p.); also a messuage and tenement in Bowdon called Pearson's now in the actual occupation of Warburton, with an undivided moiety of the fold-yard in common with John Hall, and fields thereto belonging called the Croft or Well Croft, the Higher or Nearer Coe Field, the Nearer Lowe, the Further Lowe, the Higher Knowle Field and the Moss Croft (6 a. 1 r. 17 p.); also 2 cottages or dwelling-houses in Bowdon late in the holding of Nathan Dunstar dec'd and now in the occupation of Henry Harrop and Isaac Worthington as undertenants, and a croft thereto belonging (32 p.), now in the occupation of Charles Walmsley as undertenant; also a newly erected cottage standing on the said croft, now in the occupation of Charles Walmesley as undertenant.

Rent: £10 6s. Heriot: £5. Consideration: £247.

Surrendered lease: to William Warburton, dated 12 August 1812 [cf. counterpart EGR14/5/7/10].

Enclosed within the lease is a sheet of paper containing "observations that will apply to John Warburton's lease".