Draft Lease: Wood Street, Stratford-upon-Avon

Description

Draft lease by Other Archer, Earl of Plymouth and Mary Countess of Plymouth, his wife to Benjamin Ward of Stratford-upon-Avon, coach proprietor, of four cottages and gardens in Wood Street, abutting on the South to Wood Street, on the North to Meer Pool Lane [Meer Street] and on the West to Stone Cross Stree [Rother Street?], for the term of the lives of Benjamin Ward (aged 41 years), Joseph Ward (27 years) and William Gibbs of the Golden Lion, Stratford-upon-Avon, innholder (26 years) at a yearly rent of 13s 4d.