| Description | LEASE for 21 years by Ralph Sneyd of Keele, Staffs., Charles Bourne Lawton of Lawton, esq., Robert Williamson of Ramsdell Hall, esq., Hugh Henshall Williamson of Greenway Bank, Staffs., esq., James Bateman of Knypersley, Staffs, esq., Thurstan Forshaw, clerk, perpetual curate and Incumbent of the Chapel of Newchapel in par. of Wolstanton, Staffs, Nicholas Price Wood of Bignall End, Staffs., esq., Ralph Handley of Fenton, Staffs., coal master, and Henry Meir of Tunstall, Staffs., earthen manufacturer, (Trustees of Hulmes Charity School at Newchapel) to Randle Wilbraham jun. of Rode Heath, esq., --- that ancient tenement now divided into 2 dwellings and that modern messuage or tenement and blacksmiths Shop situate at or near RODE HEATH in the township of ODD RODE, and all those parcels of land adjoining or near the said messuages (in all 30a. 3r. 32p.) stat. meas.) being the unsold portion of the Newchapel School Estate, all which premises are now or late were the occupations of Richard Pemberton, George Broreton, James Hollinshead, Joseph Crutchley and Thomas Dale as undertenants to the said R. Wilbraham and are delineated and shown in a Map [PLAN on the second skin of these presents, and all buildings, gardens, orchards etc., and appurtenances thereto belonging, and also liberty to dig marl, but reserving to the Trusting certain rights including that of digging and taking away sand gravel from the lands adjacent to the Trent and Mersey Canal, viz, from the Navigation Field, the Large Broomyfield (in 2 parts) and the Little Broomyfield, and nowhere else and with compensation therefor of land so damaged to R. Wilbraham, at rent of œ90 p.a. Seals, red. 10. PLAN Parchment. |