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Counterpart of Lease: White's Farm, Laverton, Gloucestershire

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Counterpart of a Lease from the Most Honourable Marquis of Bath, Viscount Weymouth, Baron Thynne of Warminster to Joseph Hawkes of Laverton in the Parish of Buckland, smith, of an old decayed dwelling house in Laverton formerly used as a farm house and called White's Farm house and orchard adjoining containing half an acre and then in the occupation of Joseph Hawkes, except mines quarries and timber, for a term of 99 years then following if John Hawkes, Jane Hawkes and Joseph Hawkes (children of the said Joseph Hawkes Senior) or any of them should so long live, at a yearly rent of £2 and the payment of £2 as a heriot for the dropping of any of the said lives also Suit of Court. The consideration for the granting of that Lease being the payment of 5/- by the said Joseph Hawkes Senior. Signed: Joseph Hawkes. Seal of red wax. Witnesses: John Bayzand and Robert Cotterell