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Lease: Hunningham

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Lease dated 26 January 1652/3 (Old style) [1653], from Jane Holte of Coventry (widow of William Holte late of Coventry, yeoman, deceased) and Joseph Holte of Coventry, clothier (son of the said William and Jane) to Edward Hale of Hunningham, yeoman, in consideration that Edward Hale had at his own costs built three bays of building upon the lands thereinafter demised, of a messuage, garden and orchard together with the aforesaid bays of building and a parcel of ground near to the said messuage situate in Hunningham, sometime the land of Henry Busbee and then in the occupation of Edward Hale, for a term of 21 years at a yearly rent of £5. Witnesses: John Brownell and Richard Page.