Lease

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 133 EGR14/2/5/114
  • Dates of Creation
      10 Jan 1763
  • Physical Description
      Condition: affected by dampness and mould growth, parchment fragile.

Scope and Content

Lessee: Joseph Phethean of Dunham Massey gent.

Tenement no.: 24.

Property: a messuage and tenement in Bowdon called Astbury's late in the possession of John Sanders, and fields and parcels of land thereto belonging called the Higher Barn Field, the Lower Barn Field, the nearer Wheat Field, the further Wheat Field, the Orchard, the Crappocks Hill, the Long Meadow, the Old Meadow, the Nine Acre, the nearer, middle and further Rough Heys, the North Eye Brooks Field, the Intack on Bowdon Moss and Pixton's Nine Acre (14 a. 20 p.).

Rent: £2. Heriot: £3. Consideration: £30.

Clauses: consent for the lessee to take to his own use half of all poplars planted, the division to be made by arbitrators.

Surrendered lease: to Joseph Phethean, dated 1 September 1762.