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Also That a Lease bee made to
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John Watts
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of a Tenement he
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now or late inhabited in
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for one and
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Twenty yeares from Michmas 1695 att and under the old rent of 44s. and
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for a Fine of Fifty Guineas paid in hand and with usuall Covenants as in
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our other Leases and a particular Covenant to prevent any Ereccons in
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or over any part of the yard.
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Margtt. Walker
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Graunt
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Also That a Lease bee made to
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Margarett Walker
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Widdow
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of three
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Tenements in the said Parish of
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St. Thomas in Southwarke
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for one and
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Twenty yeares from Lady day 1697 when the old Lease thereof made to
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Richard Draper
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doth expire att the old rent of Fower pounds and Fine
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of Fifty pounds whereof Five and Twenty pounds to bee paid presently
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and the other Free and Twenty pounds residue on the Second day of
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November next.
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Hackney
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And wee having severall times viewed part of the lands att
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Hackney
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in the
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held of this Hospitall by Mr.
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Thomas Cooke
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Merchant
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by a Lease made to
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Thomas Plaier
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which expires att
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Lady day 1699 wee found that severall parcells of the said lands are
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very much to bee improved by being lett out for building and were of
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opinion to Lett the same out to such persons as would undertake to
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build in Separate and distinct Leases.
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Jno. Forman Graunt
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And therefore wee have treated with
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John Forman
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an
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undertenant
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of
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about Thirteen acres of the said lands on part whereof the former Tenant
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thereof under
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Thomas Plaier
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had built three small brick Tenements
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on assurance of renewall of the Lease when a new Lease should bee
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graunted by this house and agreed that in consideracon of the said
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John
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Forman
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his paying a Fine of Two hundred pounds Vizt. One hundred
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pounds in hand and the other One hundred pounds on the Six and
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Twentith day of October next and becoming bound to lay out Eight
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hundred pounds in building upon and improving the premisses (That
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is to say) Six hundred pounds in building two Substantiall brick houses and
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inclosing Gardens with brick walls on that peice of Ground containing
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two acres and a rood lying on the South side of a Messuage there in the
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occupacon of Bird Merchant and in laying out One hundred pounds
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in building one house on the ground Whereon an old Tenement or Cottage now
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Stands being on the Northside of the said Mr. Birds house and One hundred
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pounds in Addiconall buildings to the back parts of the said late three erected
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Tenements there shalbe a Lease made to the said
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John Forman
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of the said
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Thirteene acres of land and Tenements thereon for the terme of Fifty one
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yeares from Lady day 1699 aforesaid att and under the yearely rent of Ten
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pounds and with usuall Covenants and a speciall Covenant not to plow any
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of the said ground without leave of the Generall Court or Comittee by them
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appointed for the time being under pain or increase of rent for every acre so
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plowed without leave Five pounds P Annum But he is to have liberty to digg
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and take gravell out of any part of the said land to bee used only in the said
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intended buildings and not elswhere nor to bee sold so as the ground bee
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after filled us and levelled as before it was digged.
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trees to bee Sold.
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And wee are of opinion that the old and decaying trees Standing on the said
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lands particularly those neare the great house bee sold for the benefitt of the
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house and new ones planted in their places.
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