Copy agreement for the Lease of Chilworth Manor Farm, 1853
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Copy agreement for the Lease of Chilworth Manor Farm, 1853[1].
Abstract/description
Copy agreement for the Lease of Chilworth Manor Farm entered into between Mr Samuel Brown on the first part, and John Brown Willis Fleming, Esq. on the second part, in the hand of John Brown Willis Fleming. 16 Apr 1853.
Transcription
Memorandum of agreement made & entered into between Mr Samuel Brown on the one Part & John Fleming Esqr. on the other Part.
That is to say John Fleming agrees to let & Mr Brown agrees to take all that Farm known as the Manor Farm situate at Chilworth & now in the occupation of the said John Fleming, together with the Farm House Buildings & Lands attached thereto, for a term of seven years from Michaelmas last past at the yearly rent of one hundred pounds, such rent to commence from the Twenty Ninth day of September last. Mr Brown is to pay for no acts of husbandry except all seeds sown as is usual, & to pay all rates, taxes, & other outgoings paid by John Fleming since Michaelmas last. Mr Brown is to take possession of the land on Monday next the eighteenth day of April, & to have possession of the House on the 1st Day of May next.
The lease to be forthwith drawn up, and to contain all the Covenants contained in the [Leases] of the Fleming Estates, and Mr Brown is to pay for the Lease and Counterpart.
Mr Brown to have the use of the Stables where Mr Fleming’s horses now stand, till he is provided with stable accommodation at the Farm.
Dated this 16th day of April 1853
John Fleming
