DocRefNo | DR0258/79 |
Level | Item |
Title | Lease for 1,000 years from Robert Westley, late of Rugby, now of London, gent., to Joseph Richardson, innholder, and William Treen the elder, yeoman, (churchwardens of Rugby), John Ladbrooke, farmer, and James Purshehouse, farrier, (overseers of the poor), Joshua Cooch, grocer, Robert Catherwood, glover, Edward Boddington the younger, grazier, William Cave the younger, cordwainer, and Robert Webb and John Sparrow, barbers, (all of Rugby acting as trustees for and on behalf of the parishioners), of a piece of garden ground with the shop or building thereupon "situate upon the waste in Rugby" late in the occupation of RW and adjoining [ ] lately fenced and taken out of the waste ground of Alexander Hume esq. (lord of the manor of Rugby). To be held in trust for the use and behoof of the parishioners of Rugby |
Date | 1784 |
Description | Consideration: £3 15s. (with an annual rent of 1 pepper corn to RW and 4s. to the lord of the manor), 9 June 1784. N.B. The churchwardens and overseers were acting with the direction and appointment of Cooch etc. and the other parishioners in accordance with a vestry meeting where they also agreed with RW for the "absolute purchase" of the Shop and Garden Ground for £3 15s." to the intent that [it] may be settled to and for the uses.... specified." |