Lease: Alcester

Description

Lease from Francis, Lord Brooke, Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court, to Henry Harper of Aulcester, innholder, of a messuage called the Bear Inn formerly in the occupation of Samuel Cole and Thomas Cole, and three messuages adjoining the said Inn in the occupation of John Pattison, John Gibbs and Anne Gilson in Aulcester. To hold from 25 December next for ninty nine years or the lives of the said Henry, Margaret, his wife and Henry their younger son. Consideration: £110. Rent: £1. 16. 0. Herriot: 20/- Signed: Brooke. Seal. Armorial. Witnesses: Benjamin Hubert and Joseph Woodhouse. Memorandum that Henry Harper, as tenant of the said premises, was to grind his corn at the mill of the said Francis, Lord Brooke called the Priory Mills in Aulcester. [James and The Bear Inn]