| Title | Oldbury: Lease and counterpart by Haughton Farmer Okeover of Okeover, esq., to William Breton, esq, of the capital messuage called Oldbury Hall (with furniture) and several closes late in the occupation of Francis George Smyth in Oldbury and Hartshill, 129 acres 3 roods 31 perches. for 21 years at an annual rent of £100 for the house and £170 for the land: additional rent of £10 per acre for every acre of meadow ploughed or used for gardening, and closes called Hall Croft, Lawrence Close, Hill Side, First Mill Field, Middle Mill Field and the residue of the upland that shall be moved other than once in two years, and for every acre of ploughland sown with hemp, flax or woad; also not to use in tillage the Third Mill Field, Far Steep Hills, Near Steep Hills, Mink Close, Yew Tree Close, Ironstone Close, Stonepit Close and Eight Leys Close for more than thre crops at one course for tillage without laying the same down with 12 lbs of clover, ½ strike of rye grass seed on each acre, and during such tillage to make a summar fallow, ploughing the same thre times, and if turnips own therein, to eat the turnips and the premises with sheep and cattle; not to mow the clover and rye grass after the second year but graze the same until used again.
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