Lease: Hales Cottage, Buckland and Laverton, Gloucestershire

Description

Lease from the Right Honourable Thomas, Lord Viscount Weymouth, Baron Thynne of Warminster, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter to Joseph Hawkes of Buckland, blacksmith, of a cottage or dwelling house, blacksmith's shop, garden, backside and little plot of ground adjoining containing half an acre, called Hales Cottage then in the occupation of Joseph Hawkes and situate in Laverton and theretofore parcel of Martha Workman's tenement called Gardiners and Blissards and then held by virtue of a Lease dated the 29th September 1744 granted by the late Viscount Weymouth to Thomas Hawkes, father of the said Joseph Hawkes, for 99 years determinable with the lives of Thomas Hawkes and John Hawkes, except mines, quarries and timber, for the term, after the deceases of the said Thomas and John Hawkes, or other determination of the above rescinded Lease, of 99 years, if Joseph Hawkes then aged 34 should so long live, at a yearly rent of 2/- and the payment of 2/- as a heriot and Suit of Court. The consideration for the granting of that Lease being the payment of £5. Signed: Weymouth Seal missing. Witnesses: E. Thomas and F. Doudiet