Catalogue description Draft contract for a tenancy

Elizabeth Manser of Burwash, widow of Nicholas Manser, with John Hickes the elder of Burwash, butcher

EM's life interest in the moiety of Mottingsden Farm in Burwash, late NM deceased, where she lives

JH purchased the reversion and the other moiety from NM's nephew and heir Abraham Manser of London

EM may occupy the messuage and adjoining gardens, orchards, closes and green for life, and JH shall pasture two milch-cows for her on the land convenient to the messuage, pay her an annuity of £2 10s for life and pay all except militia and Parliamentary taxes; if EM leaves the messuage, JH to pay her an annuity of £12 10s for life; EM may run her hogs and geese on the land after harvest and have the benefit of gratten and acorns 1 Jan; JH he will store for her as much cordwood (at 7s for a 14-foot cord) and faggots at 5s a hundred as she shall require

JH may occupy the barn and land; JH to repair the messuage and fences, except those between the orchards and the land occupied by Stephen Batchellor;