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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D231/M/E/49
TitleLeases, tenancy agreements: Tenancy agreement between Haughton Farmer Okeover and William Cooper of Okeover, farmer, by which Okeover has let to Cooper, on a year to year tenancy at an annual rent of £95, Lees House farm in the parish of Okeover and closes called Peachwood Lane, Peachwood Lees House, Meadow Lane Piece, Brentwood Flatts, Joan's Wood, Overwhite Meadow, Lower White Meadow, Middle White Meadow, Great Priest Close and barn and Little Priest Close 37 acres 3 roods 01 perch in Okeover and Mayfield: £10 per acre additional rent for every acre of Peach Wood, Burntwood Flatts, Joan's Wood and Middle White Meadow ploughed: not to take more than three crops of corn in the course of tillage and shall during such course of tillage make a summer fallow for wheat or turnips and shall not take more than two crops of corn or grain upon such lands as shall be fallowed for wheat and one crop of grain upon such land as shall be fallowed for turnips, and shall lay down the same in a clean husbandlike manner with 12 lbs of good clover and other grass seeds and hald a bushel of rye grass upon every acre and keep the same in pasture unbroken for two years 4 Apr
Date1825
Levelfile
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorOkeover family of Okeover
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