| Description | LEASE (counterpart) for 3 lives, by Hon. James Cholmondeley to William Bate of Helsby, blacksmith --- a messuage or cottage in HELSBY, with 1¾ acres 8 perches of land lately enclosed from the waste now in the possession of John Key, husbandman; to hold from the decease of the said John Key; for lives of Elizabeth Bate and Martha Bate, daughters of the said William Bate, and William Bate his son, aged 14, at annual rent of 3/-. Cons. £8-8-0. Seal: Red, crest, a boar. Parchment. |