| Title | Lease for 11 years by Elizabeth Taylor, widow, of Birkin (Yorks), to Robert Cockhill, farmer, of Birkin (Yorks), of a farm house with a barn and other buildings, with Moldy Close or Gileses Roods (5 acres 1 rood 16 perches), 15½
lands in the Short Burns, 4 lands in Long Burnes, 2 lands in Harnesh wall, 2 lands in Mearly, all now in tenure of Robert Cockhill, in Birkin (Yorks), at rent of £8 per annum, excepting all timber, mines and quarries, and if Robert ploughs any but common field lands in last 3 years of term, then to pay 40s per acre ploughed. |