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Old Stratford, Shottery, Welcombe, Wilmcote, etc.

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Lease from Leonard Court, junior of Shottery, yeoman, churchwarden of Old Stratford to Goodwin Zouch of Shottery, tanner, the other churchwarden, Isaac Court of Bishopton, yeoman, and John Buffery of Wilmcot, yeoman, the two Overseers of the Poor of Old Stratford, of three messuages etc. in Shottery for 21 years at a yearly rent of £8. 8s 0d, the same to be `converted into a workhouse for the imployment and maintenance of the poor'.