| Description | Lease for 12 years of Longford Farm, including the back part of the stables, the pigeon house and shared use of the wash house and yard at Longford House (later Castle), as well as both Longford Mill and Bodenham Mill and other pieces of land in Nunton and Bodenham, while Lord Coleraine's right to 'hawk, hunt, fish or fowl' on the land is retained; the financial part of the rental is supplemented by 120 pigeons per annum as well as 15 cartloads of dung for the gardens of Longford House. There are strict instructions as to use and method of husbandry e.g. the pasture land called Dry Ground is to be ploughed up for 6 crops of corn, but be sowed with clover and chalked in the seventh year 'in good husband like manner'
Parties: John Phillips (agent of Henry, Lord Coleraine) and John Barrow of Charlton, yeoman
Confirmation of this lease after the death of Lord Coleraine
Parties: Francis Milles (guardian and agent of Henry, Lord Coleraine, grandson and heir of the above) and John Barrow now of Britford, yeoman |