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D231 - Okeover family of Okeover - [12th-20th cent]
M - Deeds and estate records - [12th-20th cent]
E - Estate Papers
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Archive Reference / Library Class No.
D231/M/E/655-656
Title
Prestwold and other small Leicestershire estates: Lease and counterpart by Rowland Farmer Okeovwe of Oldbury to Henry and James Garner of a messuage, tenement or farm in Higham, Leicestershire., with all closes belonging for 21 years at an annual rent of £120: additional rent of £10 per acre for every acre in excess of 35 acres ploughed, every acre of meadow or pasture ploughed and every acre sown with woad, rape, hemp or flax: tenants to pay all taxes including the land tax and to erect all such new buildings as may be necessary: 10 qrs. [quarts] of well burnt lime and 8 waggon loads of good rotten dung to be laid on every acre of land broken up in the second year of ploughing: to be laid down again with every third crop using 14 lbs of clover seed and one strike of rye grass per acre: not to have any part of the premises in tillage more than 4 years together and not more than three years together without a summer fallow.
Date
1779
Level
file
Repository
Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator
Okeover family of Okeover
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