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We endeavoured to agree with the said tenants to graunt Leases for buildings
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but they being neither willing nor able to under take it We took the Surrendered
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of their Leases on payment of their ground rents to Midsomer 1695.
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And we do further certifie that there being 4. Tenements in
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St. Thomas
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now or late in the tenures or occupacons of
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Elizabeth
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Burton
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Widdow Hodgkin
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Stephen Harris
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and
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Mary Pond
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all which were
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formerly lett at £10. P annum but three of them empty and those and the
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other in the occupacon of the said
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Stephen Harris
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not habitable We treated
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with
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George Davison
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and agreed to lett him have a Lease of the same fower
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tenements Except three foot at least which shalbe laid into the Streete at the
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South East corner of the said tenement now or late in the tenure of the
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said
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Elizabeth Burton
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and So to run bevell from thence in such manner
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as the front of the said intended to be demised premisses shalbe levell and
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even with the front of the house next adjoyning at the West end of the
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premisses And except liberty for the Governours of this Hospitall and their
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tenants to make use of all or any part of the wall of the said intended
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to be erected Tenement on the West parte thereof for and as a party
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wall paying for the same or so much thereof as Shalbe so used so
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much lawfull money of England as the President and Treasurer of the
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said Hospitall and two other Governours thereof for the time being shall
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order direct or appoint To hold for the terme of one and Forty yeares from
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Lady day 1696 at the yearely rent of Ten pounds paiable quarterly with
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a Covenant to build one house with brick at the West parte thereof not
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less then Eighteene foot by Thirty foot with Scantlings according to the
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Act of Parliament for Second rate buildings in the Citty of London And
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to make a brick wall ten foote high at least next the Streete where there
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shalbe no new building And not at any time after it is built to pile or
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fitt boards or other timber to jett or hang over the same Wall or any
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part thereof exceeding Six inches And with other Covenants usuall in other
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Leases of houses in the said parish. But the said
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Stephen Harris
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having a terme of Seaven Yeares in the said Tenements he inhabited we
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were forced to buy in that terme which cost £22.5s.10d otherwise we
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could not make any proffitt of the other three houses for all that terme.
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Isaac Fenthem
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John Fell
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Graunt
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Wee have also agreed with Isaac Fenthem to Lett him and
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John Fell
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our
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present tenants have a Lease of all the mines of Coale or Colleries lying or
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being or which shall or may be found within all and every or any of the
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wasts wast grounds comons and comon moores within the Manor of
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Tibshelfe
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in the County of
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Derby
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and liberty to dig search sinck trench and
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nine in and upon the lands belonging to the said Manor for the hading
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and taking up of coales allowing to the Hospitall in proporcon to the
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fine or incomb rent and terme then of come and unexpired as the
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tenants paid and pay to the said Hospitall for the use and benefitt of
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such tenant or tenants whose lands shalbe so broken up To hold for the
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terme of one and twenty yeares from Michmas 1697 when the Lease is
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being doth expire at the yearly rent of Fifteene pounds paiable half
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yearly and for a fine of One hundred and Fifty pounds to be paid as
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followd Vizt. Fifty pounds parcell thereof on or before Michmas 1696
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Fifty pounds more thereof on or before Christmas 1697 and Fifty pounds
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residue and in fall on or before Michmas 1698 and with a Covenant in the
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