Catalogue description Lease (copy), for 7 yrs. from Michaelmas 1860. Yearly rent £180.   (i) Eliz. Maria...

Lease (copy), for 7 yrs. from Michaelmas 1860. Yearly rent £180.

(i) Eliz. Maria Bluett, Bath, widow.

(ii) Eliz. Trehane, widow merchants in copartnership at Halton Quay under firm of Perry Spear and Company.

John Soper Perry merchants in copartnership at Halton Quay under firm of Perry Spear and Company.

John Perry merchants in copartnership at Halton Quay under firm of Perry Spear and Company.

Philip Spear merchants in copartnership at Halton Quay under firm of Perry Spear and Company.

John Lark merchants in copartnership at Halton Quay under firm of Perry Spear and Company.

- Halton Quay (house and offices, cottages, gardens, granary storehouses, malthouse, coal timber and ore yards, limekilns, quay dues of (i). And 100 cloth yards of beach outside part of Chapple ten. nearest to Halton Quay. Lands and orchards usually held with Halton Quay, St. Dominic (schedule of tithe nos given).

(Liberty to (i) and others and their tenants having reversion of Chapel tenement, Dairy Mill ten., Burcombe farm, Halton, barton and Green bank tenement of access to Halton Quay for fetching manure and shipping produce. Timber, saplings, Coppice woods and plantations reserved. Also all quarries, mines and minerals Game, including fishing reserved. Extra rent of £20 for every acre tilled which had not been tilled during previous ten years and £5 for every acre tilled contrary to covenants. (ii) to perform parish offices, pay tithe rent charge, poor rates, church rates, land tax, highway rates. (ii) to repair everything externally and internally. Cherry orchards and gardens to be kept fully planted with cherry and apple trees and they to be protected. (ii) not to take 2 successive crops of corn or grain Arable to be cultivated according to four years course, i.e. each year ¼ down to wheat, beans, peas, mangold wurzells or potatoes; ¼ turnips, rape or vetches; ¼ in barley or oats seeded out; ¼ in clover, trefoil or young grass. (ii) to plant every crop of winter corn or grain, beans, peas, mangold wurtzel or potatoes on land broken from grass of one years lying and dress each acre of these (except potatoes) with 40 double Winchester bushels of good lime or 40 tons of good rotten dung. For potatoes with 50 tons of good Plymouth or other foreign dung. After such crop (ii) to summer till the land and sow thereon good swedish or other turnip seed, rape seed or veitches. After this crop (ii) to take a crop of lent or summer corn and with this lay the land down with sound grass seeds for 1 years from 1st of August after grass seed sown, No meadow or pasture to be mowed more than once a year. Meadow to be guttered and watered or if incapable of this, meadows to be mowed and orchards every 2 years to be manured with 20 tons of good rotten stable dung. Every 2 years pasture lands not mown to be manured with ten tons of good rotten stable or stall dung. Farm to be fully stocked with cattle 'and shall not take in any cattle to keep'. (ii) not to plant. Farm not to be sown with mustard, hemp or flax seed without written consent of (i). Turnips, mangold wurtzel, hay reed to be used on premises (except what is used for thatching) also straw, chaff, clover, haulin, calder and any green crop. Also dung and compost accumulated during first six years of term. (ii) not to underlet or assign except cottages and gardens nor let any grass without written consent of (i). (i) to be allowed to sow clover and grass seeds with the spring corn to be sown in last year, (ii) to sow this and harrow in gratis giving ten days notice of spring sowing and (ii) not to depasture young clover and grass after 29 September in last year. In last year (ii) to deliver to (i) ¼ of arable in due course for wheat. Hay, straw, reed and calder to be left on the premises for (i). (i) to pay half cost of lime used for manuring wheat grown in the last year and half of cost of carriage. (ii) to give 3 years notice of desire to end tenancy. Re-entry after arrears of 21 days etc. (Schedule of flds, with tithe nos., land use and acreage. Attached: agreement of (i) and (ii) for lease 1864. (ii) gave notice of quitting (27 September 1861) on 29 Sept. 1864. Accepted by (i)'s agent and land steward, Ric. Bowerman. (ii) to become yearly tenants for same premises from 29 September 1864 at yearly rent of £180. Same covenants as in lease applicable.

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