Draft Lease: Alveston Hill and Alveston Pasture

Description

Draft of a Lease from Thomas Wheatley Hiron of Warwick, surgeon, to William Gibbs of Alveston Hill, farmer, of a messuage and lands called Alveston Hill, and other lands called Alveston Pasture, reserving timber, mining, hunting and surveying rights. To hold for 21 years from 29th of September last paying an annual rent of £382 and also £50 for every acre converted to tillage and £20 for every acre sown with flax, hemp, woad etc. Clauses concerning taxes maintenance and crops. Schedule of acreage (field names). Endorsed for the approval of Messrs. Hobbes and Slatter. Draft approved 5 October 1861 by Hobbes and Slatter, on behalf of the Lessee. [Hiron]