| Title | Counterpart lease by Rev George Henry Ray of Finghall Rectory, Yorkshire, clerk, to Henry Hale West of the Marlpool, colliery proprietor, of the Combe Coal underlying 70 acres of land in Heanor (plan inset), to be worked by two shafts in the corner of the close known as the Big Common Piece numbered 556;
coal not to be worked within 20 yards of any building on the Ray property or within 60 yards laterally of the mansion house;
to make use of the old shaft at Tagg Hill as a ventilating shaft;
not to erect a chimney or similar erection over the old shaft;
to make use of parcels 556 and 557 for all purposes usual in mining operations: to be a single pit-heap on the same site as the present one;
no coke to be burnt;
for 16 years;
£4 per acre rent for the use of 556 and 557, £200 per acre of Hard Coal worked, £10 per acre for any coal worked by outstroke, and £80 per acre of Combe Coal worked: to draw up a plan at his colliery office on a scale of not less than 2 chains to 1 inch to show the direction and state of the workings at any time, 30 April |