| Description | Letters Patent of Queen Elizabeth granting a lease to John Gelderte for a tenement, a messuage, closes of land and a close of meadow called Shorteshawe in the vill and fields of Carleton, part of the lordship of Middleham in the Archdeaconry of Richmond, Yorkshire, and to Thomas Parkinson a close of land called Earle Orchard in the vill and fields of Richmond, part of the lordship of Richmond in the Archdeaconry of Richmond, Yorkshire, for a term of 40 years from the Feast of the Annunciation last past [25 Mar 1596], at the combined annual rents of 26s 4d 1 farthing from Gelderte and 13s 4d from Parkinson.
Given at Westminster 26 June 38 Eliz. I [1596].
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