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Lease: High Street, Stratford-upon-Avon

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Lease dated 20 February 1687/8 (Old style) [1688] from the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of Stratford-upon-Avon, to Joseph Smith of Stratford, ironmonger, of a messuage in his own tenure in the High Street between a messuage of John Lacy on the south and a messuage in the tenure of Robert Fawdon on the north for 51 years for a fine of £40 and a yearly rent of 20 shillings and a couple of fat capons. Witnesses: Thomas Woolmer and Thomas Ainge.