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Counterpart of Lease: Grey's Tenement and Smith's Shop, Buckland and Laverton, Gloucestershire

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Counterpart of a Lease from the Right Honourable Thomas, Lord Viscount Weymouth, Baron Thynne of Warminster, Lord of the Manor of Buckland and Laverton to Martha Workman of Laverton, widow, of a messuage with orchard and garden called Grey's Tenement also parcels of arable meadow and pasture lying in the Common fields of Laverton in the Parish of Buckland with all appurtenances in the tenure of Martha Workman; also a messuage with garden and backside called Smith's Shop in Laverton theretofore in the tenure of Thomas Hawkes, blacksmith and then recently converted into a Farmhouse, except all quarries and timber, for a term of 99 years if Francis Winnington of Broadway, Martha Workman, and Elizabeth Whitford should or any of them should so long live, at a yearly rent of £4 and £8 upon the dropping of any of the said lives as a heriot and Suit of Court at the Manor of Buckland and Laverton. Consideration for granting the said lease being the surrender of previous leases for lives and of £290. Signed Martha Workman. Seal of red wax bearing letters J.L.W. Witnesses: Elizabeth Whitford and Richard Bayzand