Lease for 99 years, or lives of Elias Jenkins, sons and daughter Lewis Jenkins, Llewelyn Jenkins and Margaret Jenkins, for £50, yearly rent of 10s, 2 fat capons or 1s 8d in lieu, a day's mowing in hay harvest or 12d, a days reaping in corn harvest or 1s 4d, keeping a beast in winter, or 7s, heriot of the best beast of £4, suit of court and mill or 3s 4d, hauling one ton of timber with horses and oxen from Hyrola, Glynneath, to the bank of Neath or to the Gnoll or 10s, planting one hundred acorns or young oaks or 5s, and the payment of a moidore of 27s at the drawing up of the Lease Herbert Mackworth (as in 5), to Elias Jenkins of Llantwit-juxta-Neath, yeoman A messuage and lands called Blaen gwayn y Duffrin and Blaen y cwm gwenfrod, with meadows, ways and easements: in Llantwit-juxta-Neath; Covenants: timber and mineral rights to Herbert Mackworth; Elias Jenkins may sink pits for coal for his own use, not for sale. 15 Sep 1735. Signature and seal of Elias Jenkins). Endorsed; witnesses Richard Cole junior, Leyson Hopkins, Pleydel Courteen and Joseph Hopwood; memorandum of release from wintering beast or 7s, 22 Nov 1735

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      GB 216 D/D Gn 332
  • Dates of Creation
      22 Nov 1735
  • Language of Material
      English
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      1 parchment