Lease (counterpart) (demise lease set and to farm let)

Scope and Content

1. Edward Viscount Irwin

2. Walter Rosse of Halton carpenter

Consideration: payment of rent &c.

Property: a house or tenement in which 2. lived, being one fourth part of a certain messuage in Halton with garth (1 r.) an Ox close (2 a.), part of a deane (1 r. 20 per.), several pieces of arable dispersedly in the open fields of Halton and a cottage and appurtenances in Halton.

except (as before)

Term 21 years

Rent £2. 5s. 3d. a year payable at Pentecost and St. Martin's, £5 a year for every acre converted into tillage during the 3 last years of the term, 1 capon at Pentecost and 1 hen on 1st Jan.

Covenants as No. WYL100/HA/A/12 but to plant 6 trees and carry one ruckle of coal.

Mark of 2. seal, red wax appl. on tag, arm.

Endorsements: Witnesses: W. Lockwood, Oba Nicholson, Jo. Roades.

Memo. `renewed to Chr. Knipe with a cottage on the waste.'

`date alease the same date as Wm. Irishes...at a rent of £2. 12s. 0d. to Chr. Knipe of Halton carpenter.'

Physical Characteristics and/or Technical Requirements

Parchment 30 x 23 indented