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Document Number:0501107
Title:Lease for a year
Date:03 February 1830
Price:£55.00
Condition:
Good. Clean and neatly folded.
Physical description:
Parchment : 1 sheet 43cm x 61cm with wax seal and duty stamps
Summary of contents
PARTIES
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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