Guild of the Holy Cross: Grants and leases

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Counterpart of lease, indented, from Olifer Lyghttefoott, master of the Gild of the Holy Cross etc. of Stretteford upon Auen, with the assent of John Edwarddes, William Phillippes Thomas Taylour, Phillipp Kyngges, Henry Munkyn, Richard Roberttes and Richard Lyghttefoott, aldermen of the said Gild, to John Wootton, of a tenement in Shepestrett in the said town between a tenement of master Welche in which Robert Symons then dwelt and another tenement of the said master Welche in which William Knyghtteley then dwelt; to hold the said tenement together with a barn of 3 bays next Bankecroft for 41 years at an annual rent of 17 shillings Dated in the Gildhall, 22 March, 12 Henry VIII Seal of red wax, circular, broken. A hawk in flight