West Sussex RO: Add Mss 5487
Additional manuscripts Walderton estate
Lease for 3 years from the following Michaelmas at annual rent of £141 Sarah Peckham of Wandsworth (co. Surr.), wid., to Thomas Painter of Walderton in Stoughton, yeo
Messuage, farm, barns, stables, outhouses, orchards, gardens, and backsides, and the arable meadow and pasture lands (360a.) belonging; and messuage, farm, barns, stables, outhouses, orchards, gardens and backsides, and the arable, meadow and pasture lands belonging, called [...] Jenmans: all late in occ. of Matthew Catchlove, decd., and now in the tenure of his widow, in Stoughton and Up Marden
Reserving to the lessor all timber with liberty of ingress etc. to cut down and carry away the same
The lessee to pay an additional rent of £5 for every acre ploughed up or converted into tillage
Covenant by the lessee to keep the buildings and all the tiling, thatching, covering, gates, pales, bars, posts, rails, hedges, ditches, fences, etc., in repair; to lay in the barns and upon the property all corn, hay, fodder, etc. to grow upon the property, and all soil, dung and compost; and to leave 123a. unploughed in the last year, and harrow into the ground such clover or other seeds as the lessor shall in the second year sow in these 123a. amongst such barley and oats as shall be sown by the lessee. Mark and seal (b)
Witnesses - John Moody Thomas Brett