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In Pursuance of the Reference to Us by the said Last General Court
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We have Agreed with
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. our
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Tennant
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of the Demesnes of the
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Mannor of
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and
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Farnborrow
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in
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Kent
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(as Assignee of the
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Administrators of
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Littleygroom Kickley
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Deceased our late
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Tennant
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) That he
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shall Erect and Build at his own Charge a good and substantial new Brick
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House with a Barne and Stable and other necessary Out houses in the Field
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over against the Pound belonging to our said Mannor within Three Years
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from Lady Day One thousand seven hundred and Twenty Three And shall
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Lay out and Expend therein Four hundred pounds or upwards and keep the
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same in good Repaire during the said Terme and so Leave the same at the
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End thereof In Consideration whereof he is to have an Addition of Fourteen
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Years to his present Terme which will be thereby made up Five and Twenty
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years from Lady Day One thousand seven hundred and Twenty Three at a
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pepper corne P Ann for the First Two years And the old Rent of Forty
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pounds P Ann for the Remainder of the said Terme And he is to have the
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Trees lately felled in our Woods there Allowed him towards the said Building
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He paying the Charge of Felling.
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Saml. Sadler
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We have Agreed with Mr.
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Samuel Sadler
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of
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Hackney
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That he shall Held
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a Field called
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lying near
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Mare Street
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in
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Hackney
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aforesaid lately
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Held by Mr. Mackay for a Year certain from Lady Day 1723. And to Leave it
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then if the Hospital shall require it Or upon Six months Notice afterwards
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on either side He is to pay Ten Pounds P Ann as Rent for the said Field
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Tax Free And to pay Ten Shillings P Ann as an Acknowledgment for the
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Rails Standing before the said Dwelling House which are placed upo Part
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of this Field and for the Liberty of a Way out of
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Mare Street
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aforesaid to and
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from his Dwelling House.
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We have Ordered the Footway now and for some time past used
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through the
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near the
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Bowling Green House
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in
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Hackney
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leading to
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Hummerton
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to be Stopped up to prevent the great
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Damage and inconveniency arising thereby to this Hospitals Estate there
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And that that part of this Field which is Lett with the meeting House there
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be Fenced off from the Rest of the said Field with Rails or by a Ditch.
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Thos. Wilson
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We have Agreed That
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Thomas Wilson
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our
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Tennant
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of a Publick House
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called the
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Old Bird in hand
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in
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St. Thomas's Parish
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shall Hold the same
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from Lady Day 1723. At the Old Ground Rent of Four Pounds Eight Shilling
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</
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P Ann and the Additional Rent of Sixteen pounds P Ann in the whole
<
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</
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>
Twenty Pounds Eight shillings Tax Free Payable Quarterly He is to Quit
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</
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Possession on halfe a Years Warning.
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New Purchase
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Mrs.
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Elizabeth Howland
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having by her Will Left to this Hospital
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One thousand Pounds And
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Edward Colston
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Esqr
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. having by his Will Left
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to this Hospital Five hundred pounds under special Directions that those
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Sums should be Laid out in the purchase Freehold Lands Tenements and
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Hereditaments To be settled to the Use of the Poor in this Hospital And
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the said Five hundred pounds being expressly Ordered not to be paid till
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such Estate should be Agreed for by the Governors And We understanding
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That Mr. Treasurer had a Freehold Estate in Pater Noster Rowe late the
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Inheritance of
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John Merick
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Esqr
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. Consisting of Several Houses and Ground
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which in several parts Lay Contiguous to and intorwoven with other
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Houses and Ground antiently belonging to this Hospital lying in
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Pater Noster
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Rowe
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aforesaid and
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Newgate Market
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We caused the said Houses and Ground
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to be viewed and approving thereof Treated and Agreed with him for
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the
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