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D1199 - Cavendish estate lease, Little Longstone 1725, with twentieth-century transcript - 1725-20th cent

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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D1199/1
Title	Lease by William Duke of Devonshire, to John Pidcock of Little Longstone, husbandman, in consideration of £5 18s, of a messuage or cottage at Little Longstone, with closes called the Two New Closes and the Annyseeds, with 2 beastgates in the Hay, reserving to the Duke, all timber, lead and copper mines and delphs and quarries of coal, ironstone and slate - for 21 years at £5 18s p.a. - Pidcock to lay all the dung and compost made from the hay and straw grown upon the premises, upon some fit part of the same, without carrying off or selling any - if Pidcock shall, during the last 3 years of the term, plough up more than 6a of the lands, he shall pay the Duke 40s per acre - Pidcock to plant every year, in the most fit and void places in the hedgerows and ditches of the premises, at least 4 plants of oak, ash or elm and 100 quickset - Pidcock to grind, dry and shull all his corn, malt, oats and grain at the Duke's mill and malt kilns at Little Longstone, paying the customary toll therefore, and to forfeit 5s for every default - Pidcock to do suit to the Duke's court leet and court baron held for the manor, upon reasonable sums. 14 November
Date	1725
Level	File
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator	Unidentified

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