Lease (Counterpart) (demise grant and to farm let)

Scope and Content

Parties 1. Thomas Ingram of Templenewsam esq.,

2. James Dawson of Austroppe, gent.,

Consideration: £90.

Parcels: messuage or tenement and 45 a. 1 r. of arable meadow and pasture ground, a little close called the Milne close an acre of meadow in the Dameing alias the Daneing in the manor of Temple Newsam except wood (save hedge wood) mines and quarries.

Term: 3 lives.

Rent: 53s. 4d. a year payable at Pentecost and St.Martin 2 capons at Pentecost and 2 hens at Christmas

Covenants; for re-entry if rent unpaid for 14 days for repair.

to carry 12 ruckles of coal annually from Halton pits to Templenewsam hall

to maintain the lands in good husbandlike manner

to pay rates and taxes.

for quiet enjoyment

Sig. James Dawson, seal tag.

Endorsements: 1. Witnesses: Christo.Ellison, Antho. Clarke, Edw.Thorpe.

2. Produced to Robert Hopkinson at the time of his examination at Leedsin Arthur Viscount Irwin v. William Lowther, (9 Oct. 1728).

3. Agreement between the parties that Dawson should bring up one hound and one hound whelp for use of Thomas Ingram.

Physical Characteristics and/or Technical Requirements

Parchment 23 x 15 indented.