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Lease and Release: Bridgetown
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Lease for a year and Release by Edward Clopton of Clopton, esq., to John Middleton of Montham, co. Sussex, esq., and Nathaniel Mason of Stratford-upon-Avon, gent., of messuages and lands in Clopton in the tenures of Simon Ball (rent £37) Richard Salmon (rent £80) and Nathaniel Arnold (rent £46), a messuage called the Shoulder of Mutton and land called Harrington's Leys in Bridgetown in the tenure of George Hyron (rent £30) and two small inclosed grounds in Bridgetown in the tenure of Thomas Woolmer (rent £8) in trust for a jointure to Martha Clopton [daughter. of Thomas Middleton], his wife, with remainder to his right heirs. Witnesses: Thomas Mason and Richard Thomas.