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- Blanchminster Charity Book - Parish of Stratton (Bude Library)
Memorandum of Agreement, 20 April 1762.
Between the major part of the Eight Men of the parish of Stratton and William Colmer of Poughill, for a lease determinable of three lives tobechosen and named by the lessee of and in "our part of HEAL MILLS", together with the wastes and plots adjoining, and woodland and housesthereuntobelonging, for a term of 99 years, if the lives shall so long endure, paying for consideration one guinea.
Counterpart, 31 October 1763.
Hugh Payne, Edward Hallett, and others, feoffees [those to whom land is given in the feudal system], for and in consideration of the re-erectionorre-building of the mills and mill-houses, commonly called HELE MILLS, together with the dwelling house and outhouses thereunto belonging, whicharenow ruinous and decayed, as well as for £2.2s. demise and grant to JOSEPH PETHEICK and his assigns all that their part, parcel and portion, thatisto say, one third part, of those mills, mill-houses, dwelling house and outhouses called HELE MILLS, and watercourse to the said millsbelonging,also the commons without the said mills and plot of wood or woodland ground thereto adjoining, all which premises were sometime in thetenure ofBenjamin Gayer, and now of JOSEPH PETHEICK, of Week St Mary, millwright; for 99 years, if JOHN PETHEICK, son of the said Joseph, aged 4years orthereabouts, JOSEPH another son of the same, aged 15 weeks or thereabouts, and ELIZABETH, daughter of the said Joseph, aged about 2 years,or any ofthem, shall so long happen to live. Yearly rent 10s. 4d.; also a heriot or farleu after the death of each tenant.
[heriot or farleu - a customary tribute of goods or chattels to the lord of the fee on the decease of the owner]
Counterpart, 27 August 1862 [99 hundred years later].
Assigned to John Box.
Footnote: in 1816, John Petherick paid 10s. 4d. rent and 10s. 8d. land tax. Subsequently these two items are merged into one payment of rent, £1. 1s.
Elizabeth is mentioned in her father's will of 1781:
I give and bequeath unto my well beloved daughter Elizabeth the sum of Ten Pounds to be paid to her at the expiration of five years from theDatehereof and not sooner.
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