Lease

Scope and Content

Lessee: John Royle of Carrington yeo.

Tenement no.: 24.

Property: a messuage and tenement in Carrington, heretofore in the possession of Joan Royle dec'd [mother of John Royle] and now occupied by John Royle, with fields and parcels of land thereto belonging called the Orchard, the Old Croft, the Hemp Croft, the Bottom, the Skeir Bank, the Folley alias the Pyeshaw Lane, the nearer and further Great Pyeshaws, the near and far Pyeshaws, the Moss (improved), the Rough (unimproved), the Ecclesmere, the Heatham alias the High Earth, the Acton Greave, the Heatley, the Half Acre alias the Brickiln Field, the Martland, the Carpitts, and the Margaretts Croft (15 a. 1 r.).

Rent: £4 18s. Heriot: £4. Consideration: £98.

Surrendered lease: to John Royle, dated 3 July 1777 [cf. counterpart EGR14/3/5/81].