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D231 - Okeover family of Okeover - [12th-20th cent]
M - Deeds and estate records - [12th-20th cent]
E - Estate Papers
A - Derbyshire and Staffordshire Estate
2 - Swinscoe and Woodhouse Estate
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Archive Reference / Library Class No.
D231/M/E/206
Title
Tenancy agreement between Haughton Charles Okeover and Samuel Archer of Swinscoe farmer, by which Okeover has let to Archer on a year-to-year basis, several closes of land in Swinscoe namely Long Croft, New Long Croft and the Hill, 19 acres 3 roods 09 perches, at an annual rent of £40: an additional rent of £20 per acre for ploughing up the Hill: in the course of tillage not to take more than three crops of corn from off the said lands and shall during such tillage make a summer fallow for wheat or a fallow for turnips and shall not take more than one copy of corn or grain upon such land as shall be fallowed and shall lay down the same in a clean, husbandlike manner with 12 lbs. of good clover seed and other grasses and half a bushel of rye grass seeds upon every acre and keep the same in pasture unbroken for the two next years
26 Apr
Date
1847
Level
file
Repository
Derbyshire Record Office
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Okeover family of Okeover
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