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

Scope and Content

Parties 1. Rt. Hon. Rich Lord Ingram Viscount Irwin

2. William Ward of Holbeck, yeoman

Parcels 1 cottage and croft adjoining formerly belonging Sowden and late in possession of Joseph Alderson; 1 cottage, 4 & 1/2 yds. of land on which a barn had been built and a gardenstead, in Holbeck.

Term 21 years

Rent 40s. -d. a year

Seal,[original] black wax, appl. arm.

[counterpart the same

Witnesses: none to original to counterpart: Ro. Hopkinson, Wm. Croft.

Stamps 1s. -d.

Also Contract for above dated 7 Jun 1714 - lessee to have liberty to make bricks at bottom of the croft and to add another cottage.

Physical Characteristics and/or Technical Requirements

Paper 23 x 18 indented