Lease for 13 years by Rev Thomas Wright of Birkin (Yorks) to Matthias Allen and John Allen his son, yeomen, of Toulston in parish of Newton Kyme (county Yorks.), of tenement in Birkin (Yorks), with lands named on back of lease, at rent of £94 10 s
Saving all timber, mines, quarries and hunting;
not to sub let or assign, or occupy any other person's lands within 6 miles of Birkin (Yorks);
to scour ditches every 3 years;
not to sell any hay, manure, dung or ashes on pain of 20 s a cart load, but to spread it on land;
not to plough or burn more than 80 acres in order to preserve present quantity of arable, on pain of £5 for every acre ploughed above 80 acres;
provision for replacement of ploughed up grass;
to make summer fallow of ¼
of arable each year;
to do 2 boon days each year and give 4 fowls at Christmas.
11 Apr 1783