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Guild of the Holy Cross: Grants and leases

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Indenture of lease from William Fissher of Stratford upon Auen to Nicholas Bayly and Agnes his wife, of a messuage with a garden adjoining in Stratford in Swynnestrete, between a piece of land of the Gild of the Holy Cross on the east and another tenement of the said William Fissher on the west, the messuage containing on the street side 33 feet in breadth, and the garden in length from the side of the said messuage to a garden of the Gild of the Holy Cross and in breadth 33 feet, for 60 years at an annual rent of 12 pence: the grantee agreeing to build a house called `Insethowes' and a low chamber at the west end of the same house, the said William finding the great timber for them, and the said Nicholas and Agnes finding `stodys latten et claues vel virgas pro wyndyng parietarum, nec non stramen pro cooperacione eiusdem domus' and paying for the carriage of the straw and the carpenter's work Witnesses: John Burnham, `capitalis ballivus', John Mayel, junior, and Thomas Ballessale, `subballivi', John Colyer, Robert Thorne and others Dated at Stratford, Monday after the feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 14 Henry VI Seal of red wax, circular, defaced