Counterpart Lease

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 133 EGR14/3/3/34
  • Dates of Creation
      14 Apr 1740
  • Physical Description
      Medium: parchment. Condition: severely affected by dampness and mould-growth causing extensive decay and weakening of parchment.

Scope and Content

Lessees: Charles Warburton and Joseph Blease, overseers of the poor in Bollington.

Tenement no.: 23.

Property: a cottage or tenement in Bollington now in the actual occupation of William Key.

Lives: Hardey Leather, son of George Leather of Bollington yeo; Samuel Berrey of Dunham Massey labourer; Alice Lowe, wife of John Lowe late of Bollington carpenter.

Rent: 6d. Heriot: 1s. Consideration: 10s.

Clauses: tree-planting clause struck out.

Surrendered lease: to Katherine Smith, date unspecified, [?EGR14/2/4/97].

Mark of Warburton.

Access Information

EGR14/3/3/34 cannot be made available to researchers because of its poor physical condition.