| Description | LEASE for 3 lives by Richard Smith of Wodbanck [Woodbank], yeoman, to Richard Downes the elder of Larkton, yeoman, and John Downes of Larkton, yeoman, --- premises as above (no. DCH/C/169), by the description of a messuage called Smiths tenement in LARKTON and BICKERTON lately purchased by the said Richard Smith of and from one Master William Green of Stafford and lately in the holding of John Newnes and now of the said Richard Downes, for the lives of the said Richard Downes and John Downes, and of Richard Downes the younger, son of the said John, at an annual rent of £40. Seal: Red, illegible. Parchment. |