| Description | Indentures of lease by Sir Henry Puckering alias Newton of the Priory near Warwick, baronet, to John Hopkins of Birmingham, gent, of two water mills under one roof called the Priory Mill, with lean-to stable built at the end of a barn in the holding of John Pritchett nearby, and the other mill called the Frog Mill near the Priory Grove, with the streams and springs supplying them, and the laying of pipes in Priory Park (excepting the Priory House and its outhouses, gardens and orchards) using an engine or engines to provide a water supply for the town of Warwick, using water taken from the Frog Mill Pool, water from the Spring Pool, Malthouse Pool and Square Pool to be only used in emergencies via a little floodgate built to sink the water in those three pools by a foot, to be held from the Feast of the Annunciation [25 March] for a term of 500 years at the annual rent of £10, reciting the design of John Hopkins to furnish the inhabitants of Warwick with water and the agreement to build an engine or engines near the Frog Mill, in consideration of £200.
10 March 6 Will & Mary 1693 [by modern calendar 1694].
One indenture with seal for John Hopkins and endorsed as being a counterpart lease of the Priory Mills and the waters from the springs at Woodlows (5/3): the other with seal for H Puckering and endorsed with memorandum for receipt of £200 consideration money on 11 May 1694 (5/4). |