| Title | Assignment of reversionary lease by 1. William Leygh of London gentleman to 2. John Sex of `Ryckmersworth' [Rickmansworth], county Hertford, yeoman and Agnes his wife, reciting that Thomas sometime Abbot of St Werburgh in Chester, leased to Christopher Ayer of Knipton, county Leicester, gentleman and Helen (also called Ellen) Fayrebarn of Weston widow, the manor of Weston, all houses, lands, customs, belonging with the herbage of the park, their `connyngrye', Blacke poole, Arneford, Bradford and all other pools, ayeways and waters belonging to the manor, as Richard Fayrbarn had occupied the same, from Michaelmas after 5 Feb 21 Henry VIII [1530] for 41 years, at rent of £16 19s 4d, and that the Abbot and convent on 4 October 30 Henry VIII [1538] granted the reversion from the end of the 41 year term for 61 years, at same rent, to William Leigh, and witnessing that the reversionary lease was assigned to 2 on condition that Sex shall save Leigh harmless from all payments and covenants in the 1538 lease and shall find Leigh and his wife (when he marries) during Leygh's life, meat and drink and 2 chambers with a chimney in one of them and a house of office thereto pertaining, a green coat in summer, a `fryze' coat in winter, a stable and the free keeping of 2 geldings, and that William shall have all the warrens, waters, connyngryes and grounds pertaining, both to the farm of Lynsters where Sex now lives and to the manor of Weston in which of those places or anywhere else where John and Agnes shall fortune to dwell, to fish, take fowls, conies, and to make the most profit of them, giving Sex one fish, one fowl and one cony in ten, and William is to have a dovecote at his pleasure, wood for his chamber and fire;
if any of the farm grounds are let William shall have first chance of them;
he shall have a featherbed and all things belonging, and all meet necessaries for his chamber, and one acre for his garden and orchard;
otherwise William shall have his old lease again, paying to Sex 20d for every week's board that then shall be unpaid.
Dated 7 March 2 Elizabeth
Endorsed with a memorandum that John Sex, as by virtue of a Statute of 31 Henry VIII. [1539] for the assuring of Abbey lands to the King, the lease dated 4 October 30 Henry VIII [1538] is void, has surrendered the premises to William Paget, Lord Paget of Beaudersert, to whom the inheritance and reversion appertain. 8 Dec 3 Elizabeth [1560] |