Lease for Lives

Scope and Content

Parties: (1) John Finney of Fulshaw, gent; (2) Isaac Sumner of Chorley, Wilmslow, weaver.

Lease by (1) to (2) of a cottage in Fulshaw, for three named lives, viz, (2), his wife, Ann, and Joseph Burgess of Duckinfield, husbandman. Rent: 3s 4d, plus 2 days reaping of corn and 10s heriot. Signatures of witnesses on dorse, and note of livery of seisin, 25 Dec 1711.