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Whereby, in consideration of £10 now and £140 on [25 Mar 1635] payable at his house in Westcheap alias Cheapside, [St.] Mary le Bow parish, London, Edward Darlinge (of London, vintner) lets to Walter Blith (of Allesley, Warwickshire, yeoman) Foleshill Hall or Manor (successively occupied by [Sir] Francis Willoughby, Richard Bentley [silkman], Anne Bentley and now Christopher Stacy) with meadows (similarly held), pastures (once severally occupied by Edward Wall, Thomas Truman and Henry Norman but now by C. Stacy), an arable 3.25 yardland (occupied by Stacy) and Sydnall woodlands (excepting pasture for two bullocks or kine, with liberty to manage those beasts, and reserving trees and minerals, not spoiling crops to the value of 20/- per annum in getting the trees or minerals): to be held from [25 Mar 1635] for 21 years at £61 per annum; re-entry if rent fall forty days in arrears or the £140 be unpaid; the tenant will repair with rough timber (ideally permitted within three months of his applying to use it); if Walter Blith till Hall Close and Conigree Hill near the manorhouse without licence, he shall pay an additional 40/- per annum per acre; the premises may may only be assigned unlicensed to a wife or child(ren); W. Blith may enjoy firebote of pollards and lops, also hedgebote, stakebote [right of a tenant to take wood or thorns to erect palisades], ploughbote and cartbote; within three months of damage being caused by coal-extraction, Edward Darlinge shall pay compensation agreed by two arbitrators (one chosen by each side); the £140 is by way of entry-fine.