Lease: Alcester

Description

Lease from Francis, Lord Brooke, Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court, to Henry Harper of Aulcester, innholder, of a messuage and garden and one acre of meadow in the common meadow called Lench Meadow in Aulcester formerly in the occupation of Samuel House. To hold for ninty nine years or the lives of the said Henry, Margaret, his wife and Henry their younger son. Consideration: £22. Rent: 18s. Herriot 18s. Signed: Brooke. Seal armorial. Quarterly I and IV on a cross within a bordure engrailed 5 roundels. II Quarterly I and IV Barry of 6. II and IV a lion rampart. III Ermine on a canton a crescent. Ensigned with a Baron's coronet. Supporters two swans gorged. Witnesses: Benjamin Hubert and Joseph Woodhouse. Memorandum that the said Henry Harper, as tenant of the said premises, was to grind his corn at the mill of the said Francis, Lord Brooke called the Priory Mills in Aulcester. [James and The Bear Inn etc.]