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Document Number:0503082
Title:Lease for a year
Date:01 January 1760
Price:£42.00
Condition:
Poor. This document has two tears in the top edge, the longest of them is 11cm long. No paper is missing and it is entirely legible.
Physical description:
Parchment : 1 sheet 30cm x 56cm with wax seal and escutcheoned revenue stamp.
Summary of contents
Parties
Joseph Russell of Lymington, Hampshire, Mariner.
Samuell Shepard of Lymington, Hampshire, Gentleman.

Subject:
Joseph Russell is giving a lease for a year to Samuell Shepard on a close of arable pasture ground known as Flashards, totalling 2 acres in Lymington, at a rent of a peppercorn. Included in the property is a 'Road' or 'Gateway' leading to it at the South and which is 55ft x 19ft.
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