| Title | Hollinshead and associated families: Lease by Benjamin Joliffe of Corton Worcestershire esq., to Thomas Fernihough of Leek, yeoman, and Jonathan Myatt of Leek, maltser of a messuage, farm or tenement called the Barnfield in the parish of Leek now inhabited by John Hancock and closes called the Two Barnfields, Broom Flatts, two Cattslows, Birchall Croft, the Clewes, the Shields, Calf Croft, Tofts Meadow, two Well Snapes, Dry Snapes, Copes Whitfield and Cornhill Cross and all tithes : for 29 years at an annual rent of £83 : not to plough the Calf Croft or above a quarter part of the arable or "upp land" in any one year : nor shall he plough up any part of the premises for any longer than three years together : 40s per acre additional rent per acre for ploughing any land contrary to these covenants
16 Nov |