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Transferred to Reading University Library. This is a lease made on October 13th 1749 between Robert Chaundler of Crondall, Hampshire, and John Hall. It is written on one side of foolscap paper in the contemporary legal hand. The tenant was to lease three quarters of an acre of land for the growing of hops. The occupation of the tenant is listed as 'cordwainer' - a worker in fine leather and a shoemaker. This lease reflects the period when craftsmen plied their trade within the village, and also carried on some agricultural pursuit to supplement their income.

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MERL 'Catalogue index' card – ‘… // DATE ACQUIRED: // GROUP: // NEGATIVE: // PERIOD: // PLACE OF ORIGIN: // NUMBER: // DESCRIPTION: …‘ Read in conjunction with 52/112 and 52/114 it forms a picture of the letting out of a newly enclosed field. //, MERL miscellaneous note - AN AGREEMENT made this Thirteenth Day of October in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand seven Hundred and forty nine BETWEEN Robert Chaundler of Crondall in the County of Southampton Yeoman of the one Part AND John Hall of the same place Cordwainer of the other Part as follow's. // The said Robert Chaundler for an in Consideration of the Payment of the yearly Rent and of the performance of theAgreements herinafter mention'd HATH Let unto the said John Hall ALL that piece or parcel of Land containing by Estimation three quarters of an Acre (more or less) being part of a field called Bagmoor adjoining on one side to the Garden of Thomas Cranston and on the otherside to the Hopground in the Occupation of John Winn to plant the same with Hops TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the aforesaid piece and parcel of Land with the Appurtenances unto the said John Hall his Executors and Administrators from the feast Day of St. Michael the Arch Angel last part before the Date hereof for by and to be compleat and Ended YIELDING and Paying therefore Yearly and every Year During all the said Term unto the said Robert Chaundler his Heirs or Assigns the Yearly Rent or Sum of One Pound sixteen Shillings and three pence of lawful money of Great Britain on the feast day of St. Michael the arch Angel AND the said John Hall Doth hereby Agree and Promise to Pay or cause to be Paid unto the said Robert Chaundler his Heirs or Assigns the aforesaid Yearly Rent or Sum of One Pound sixteen shillings and three Pence at the time before mention'd for the payment thereof AND also shall and will keep up and maintain on good Repair all the Fences belonging to the said piece of Land AND the said Robert Chaundler Doth also Agree that if the said John Hall shall be willing to leave the said piece of Land and Desire to be quit from this Agreement before the Expiration of the said Term of Twenty one years He shall and may have free Liberty to leave and quit the same at any time only giving one Years Notice thereof in writing and leave the same planted with Hops in husbandlike manner whensoever he leave's it either before or at the Expiration of the said Term IN WITNESS whereof the Parties abovemention'd have here set their Hands the Day and Year abovesaid. // The Mark of John X Hall // Witness to the above written Agreement. // William Chutter / J. Bifield, // (Endorsed:-) An Agreement John Hall to // Mr. Chaundler. October the // 13th: 1749 // £1 - 16 - 3 //

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