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Counterpart Lease
PA279/5/10
30 Jun 1827
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Coventry Archives & Research Centre
Whereby Richard Hopkins (of Gloucester Place, Middlesex, esq. and general) lets to Job West (of Allesley, Warwickshire, farmer) (a) a messuage at "Hawkestie End" [Hawkes End], Allesley parish, "Home Close" (in two parts), "Cockshut Close" (against the messuage), "Long Croft" (adjoining Cockshut Close; in two parts), "Smiths Closes", "the Pingle" alias "George's Croft", "the Withy Beds" and "Town Field" (all occupied by Job West); (b) a barn and stable (formerly held by Humphrey Hasterley, now by J. West), three closes near them, a meadow (in two parts) adjoining two of the three closes, a wood near the barn, "the Oak Fields" (formerly six, now three) near the two meadows, and three closes called "Wall Hills" (altogether 47a. and let to West); and (c) 1a. 1r. 26p. close which Richard Hopkins bought from William Clark (farmed by West) and three pieces of newly-enclosed ground (2r. 25p.) beside Wall Hall [recte Hill] Lane, Allesley parish: the lease reserves timber and minerals and lasts from 6 Apr [1827] for fourteen years at £213/7/- per annum rent plus £10 per acre penalty for meadow-tillage (excepting the three Oak Fields), similar penalty for whatever is sown with named crops or cultivated contrary to covenants ut infra, re-entry after fourteen days of unpaid and unlawful subletting, fourfold crop-rotation, no pasturing of cattle during the term's final spring spreading of three cartloads of muck per ton of hay carried away, the final summer's fallow fields to be sown then with wheat, two arbitrators (one chosen by either party) to determine that crop's value (or a referee if they cannot agree), and the landlord to allow the tenant at most the market price for the final cover-crop.
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