| Description | Counterpart indenture of lease by Sir Thomas Puckering of the Priory in or near Warwick, knight and baronet, and his trustees William Vyner, gent, George Weale, gent, Humphrey Kerby, gent, William Harmar, woollen draper, and Roger Edes, apothecary, all of the town of Warwick, of the 1st part, to Anthony Jackman of the town of Warwick, tailor, of the 2nd part, of a tenement in Warwick in the Rother Cheaping (the middle one of three newly built tenements), to be held for a term of 21 years [no annual rent stated], provided Jackman takes on Robert Spencer, son of Oliver Spencer, as his first apprentice for 7 years, and then two other apprentices in turn for further periods of 7 years, as nominated by Sir Thomas or, after his death, by his daughter Jane, and teaches and instructs them in his trade as a tailor: it is recited that Sir Thomas by a deed of feoffment of 20 Apr 9 Chas [1633] had conveyed to the trustees as above (also including Thomas Gibbs, esquire, since deceased) three messuages, one in the Walditch and two in Rother Chippinge (where Frances Shore and Alice Ryland, both widows, lately dwelt), to build six new tenements, and that three new tenements had been built out of the messuages in the Rother Cheaping and were intended to be used to house tradesmen of Warwick and their apprentices.
1 May 12 Chas 1636
Seal: for Anthony Jackman, red, attached by tag. |