Lease and counterpart. (demise grant and to farm let).

Scope and Content

Parties 1. Edmond Clough, Owen Hodges, Thomas Allen and William Bennett by appointment of Gervis Lord Clifton.

2. George Hemsworth of Great Preston, gent.

Consideration: £400.

Parcels. Several meadow and pasture grounds as they lie enclosed commonly called Temple Pasture Stayner and Osmondthorpe part of the manor of Temple Newsom or Newsham.

Term: 3 lives.

Rent: £32. 11s. 8d. a year payable at Pentecost and St. Martin.

Covenant to distrain if rent unpaid for 20 days.

Appointment of Cuthbert Witham and Henry Hemsworth to give seisin on behalf of (1)

4 seal tags, 3 seals broken.

Signatures of Clough, Allen and Bennett.

Witnesses (endorsed) Nicholas Clough, Fran. Bellasse, Lionel Austwick, Marmaduke Bennett.

Memorandum of livery of seisin endorsed.

Physical Characteristics and/or Technical Requirements

Parchment 2 skins 20 x 12 indented.