| Title | Ansley: Lease by John Ludford of Ansley Hall, doctor of Laws, to Haughton Farmer Okeover, of Okeover, Staffordshire, esq., of all those several mines, delphs, beds of coal called the Ryder, Seven Foot and Ell Coal now being under the commons or waste lands of Ansley, with full licence to sink pits and shafts, to dig and win coal, draw levels and make soughs, erect engines and such other buildings as may be necessary and useful: for 21 years at a rent of 1s per ton for all the large and 6d per ton for all the small coal got from the lands of John Ludford: if any of the coal dug during the said term is sold at above 10s 6d per ton for large and 7s 6d per ton for small, then an additional rent of half of the advance in price over and above the 1s and 6d per ton: not to dig for coal under John Ludford's park and to get all the coal in a level if possible; to fill in all shafts from the bottom when worked out and if left open for air to be well protected
1 May |