| Description | Lease for 14 years: rent £632 p.a.
1. Charles Albert Darley of Burton Fields, esq., Willowby Wood of Holly Bank, near Burton upon Trent, [Staffs.], esq., and Clervaux Darley Chaytor of Spennithorne Hall, esq.
2. James Hodgson, Benjamin James Hodgson, and Michael Hodgson of Hesselton, parish of Patrick Brompton, farmers
Hallwith Farm and Little Moor Farm in Spennithorne, formerly occ. by George Robert Dennison; and 2 cottages in Spennithorne occ. by Matthew Dennison and David Raw; and 325ac. 0r. 15p. land, as specified in an accompanying schedule
Reserving to (1) all mines, minerals, marl, clay, brickearth, sand and gravel pits, slates, beds and strata of limestone etc., timber; the use of the limestone quarry and limekiln; and game. If (1) allow rabbits to get out of hand, then (2) after giving notice, may take them with ferrets and nets, and dig them out of their burrows
(2) also to pay £40 per acre of grass land converted to tillage; £5 per ton of turnips or other green or root crops (Except potatoes), or of hay, grass, corn in the straw, straw, stubble, manure or compost sold without the consent of (1)
Includes schedule of rules and regulations relating to the upkeep of the property and the system of agriculture to be followed
Signed by both parties |