Agreemt: with
John Smith< no role > Esqr }

In Pursuance of the Reference to Us by the said Last General Court
We have Agreed with John Smith< no role > Esqr . our Tennant of the Demesnes of the
Mannor of Crofton in Orpington and Farnborrow in Kent (as Assignee of the
Administrators of Littleygroom Kickley< no role > Deceased our late Tennant ) That he
shall Erect and Build at his own Charge a good and substantial new Brick
House with a Barne and Stable and other necessary Out houses in the Field
over against the Pound belonging to our said Mannor within Three Years
from Lady Day One thousand seven hundred and Twenty Three And shall
Lay out and Expend therein Four hundred pounds or upwards and keep the
same in good Repaire during the said Terme and so Leave the same at the
End thereof In Consideration whereof he is to have an Addition of Fourteen
Years to his present Terme which will be thereby made up Five and Twenty
years from Lady Day One thousand seven hundred and Twenty Three at a
pepper corne P Ann for the First Two years And the old Rent of Forty
pounds P Ann for the Remainder of the said Terme And he is to have the
Trees lately felled in our Woods there Allowed him towards the said Building
He paying the Charge of Felling.

Agreemt. with
Saml. Sadler< no role > }

We have Agreed with Mr. Samuel Sadler< no role > of Hackney That he shall Held
a Field called Eastfield lying near Mare Street in Hackney aforesaid lately
Held by Mr. Mackay for a Year certain from Lady Day 1723. And to Leave it
then if the Hospital shall require it Or upon Six months Notice afterwards
on either side He is to pay Ten Pounds P Ann as Rent for the said Field
Tax Free And to pay Ten Shillings P Ann as an Acknowledgment for the
Rails Standing before the said Dwelling House which are placed upo Part
of this Field and for the Liberty of a Way out of Mare Street aforesaid to and
from his Dwelling House.

We have Ordered the Footway now and for some time past used
through the Old Gravell Pit Field near the Bowling Green House in
Hackney leading to Hummerton to be Stopped up to prevent the great
Damage and inconveniency arising thereby to this Hospitals Estate there
And that that part of this Field which is Lett with the meeting House there
be Fenced off from the Rest of the said Field with Rails or by a Ditch.

Agreemt. with
Thos. Wilson< no role >

We have Agreed That Thomas Wilson< no role > our Tennant of a Publick House
called the Old Bird in hand in St. Thomas's Parish shall Hold the same
from Lady Day 1723. At the Old Ground Rent of Four Pounds Eight Shilling
P Ann and the Additional Rent of Sixteen pounds P Ann in the whole
Twenty Pounds Eight shillings Tax Free Payable Quarterly He is to Quit
Possession on halfe a Years Warning.

New Purchase

Mrs. Elizabeth Howland< no role > having by her Will Left to this Hospital
One thousand Pounds And Edward Colston< no role > Esqr . having by his Will Left
to this Hospital Five hundred pounds under special Directions that those
Sums should be Laid out in the purchase Freehold Lands Tenements and
Hereditaments To be settled to the Use of the Poor in this Hospital And
the said Five hundred pounds being expressly Ordered not to be paid till
such Estate should be Agreed for by the Governors And We understanding
That Mr. Treasurer had a Freehold Estate in Pater Noster Rowe late the
Inheritance of John Merick< no role > Esqr . Consisting of Several Houses and Ground
which in several parts Lay Contiguous to and intorwoven with other
Houses and Ground antiently belonging to this Hospital lying in Pater Noster
Rowe aforesaid and Newgate Market We caused the said Houses and Ground
to be viewed and approving thereof Treated and Agreed with him for
the