Title | Leases, tenancy agreements etc: Tenancy agreement between Edward Walhouse Okeover and Thomas Swinscow of Pinchley Okeover: year to year tenancy at an annual rent of £95: messuage, dwelling house or tenement called Pinchley and 112 acres 2 roods 00 perch of land: spread and consume upon some part of the premises all the hay, straw and fodder, dung, compost and manure, raised and gathered upon the said premises: not to cut crop or lop any timber: not to plough or break up more than 15 acres in any one year: not keep in tillage any part thereof more than three successive years, in one of which three years the same to be made and lie in summer fallow and also shall and will sow such land with 12 lbs. of clover seeds at the least or a proper quantity of other proper grass seeds in the third and last years tillage in order to lie for mowing and pasture: tenant pays the land tax. [These are the standard Okeover husbandry covenants and are repeated in all the subsequent tenancy agreements] 21 Mar |