Lease and Counterpart (demise lease grant bargain sell and to farm let)

Scope and Content

1. Sir Arthur Ingram of Temple-newsome

2. Richard Burton of Kirk Dighton, clerk, preacher and minister of God's word there.

Consideration: a certain sum of money

Parcels: all the manor &c. of Thorpe alias Thorpe Stapleton and closes [as before described]

Term: 40 years

Rent: 12d at Christmas if demanded

Covenants as to title and further assurances.

Witnesses: (endorsed) Robert Dyneley, W. Stanhope, Wm. Hunton, Wm. Nichols.

Signed and sealed by 1. and 2. [seal of 1. missing]

Cancelled.

Memo. on slip of paper, that £300 a year for 7 years was to be paid to Mr. Burton at `Wisentide and Martemas' at the George in Coney Street.