Lease and Counterpart: Hales Cottage, Buckland and Laverton, Gloucestershire

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Lease and Counterpart from the Most Honourable Thomas, Marquis of Bath, Viscount Weymouth, Baron Thynne of Warminster, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter to Joseph Hawkes of Laverton in the Parish of Buckland, blacksmith, of a Cottage or dwelling house blacksmith's shop garden and little plot of ground adjoining containing half an acre called Hales Cottage then in the occupation of Joseph Hawkes, situate and being in Laverton in the Parish of Buckland, formerly a parcel of Martha Workman's tenement called Gardiners and Blissards, except mines quarries and timber, for a term of 99 years then following, if Joseph Hawkes and Thomas Hawkes (son of the said Joseph Hawkes aged 18 years) or either of them should so long live at a yearly rent of 2/- and payment of 2/- as a heriot upon the dropping of the said lives also Suit of Court. The consideration for the granting of that Lease being the surrender of a former Lease by the said Viscount to Joseph Hawkes of the premises and also of £5 paid by Joseph Hawkes. Lease signed: Bath. Seal of red wax. Witnesses: James Knight and Thomas Davis. Counterpart signed Joseph: Hawkes. Seal of red wax. Witnesses: W. Jones and John Bayzand