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| Document Number: | 0501107 |  | ||||||||||||
| Title: | Lease for a year | |||||||||||||
| Date: | 03 February 1830 | |||||||||||||
| Price: | £55.00 | |||||||||||||
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| Good. Clean and neatly folded. | ||||||||||||||
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| Parchment : 1 sheet 43cm x 61cm with wax seal and duty stamps | ||||||||||||||
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William Butt of Ledbury, Herefordshire. Grocer. Rev Thomas Powell of the Parish of Tarrington, Herefordshire. SUBJECT Thomas Powell obtains a lease for William Butt at the rent of a peppercorn on a burgage plot in the town of Ledbury of about 40ft x 17ft. (Many medieval boroughs were laid out with a number of burgage plots in the main street or square. The town burghers would be the owners of the burgages). | ||||||||||||||
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