Lease (demise grant and to farm let)

Scope and Content

Parties 1. Lady Margaret Countess of Lennox widow.

2. John Harteley of Haulton, husbandman

Witnessed that Thomas Fowler of Hacknay esq. in virtue of a Commission given him by 1. and in consideration of the surrender of a lease and payment of £4. 5s. 0. in the name of a fine or gressome demised to 2. the following parcels:

Parcels half a tenement of the yearly rent of 4s. 6d. in occupation of 2. in the towne and fyeldes of Haulton in the lordship of Templenewsham.

Term 21 years

Rent 4s. 6d. a year

Covenants for re-entry if rent unpaid for 14 days; for repair; lessee to grow 6 young ashes, okes or elmes yearly

Sig. T.Fowler, seal, red wax on tag - broken.

Endorsements: Witnesses: Roger ...

Wyllm.Swift, Lawrence Whythay, Thomas Canbye

1707 Wm.Broadbent.

Physical Characteristics and/or Technical Requirements

Parchment (repaired) 17 x 9 indented