Lease

Reference Number: BC/6/2/1/1/29
Level of Description: Item
Title: Lease
Date: 1339
Extent: Extent: 1 item
Description: 1. The Mayor and Commonalty of Bath
2. Richard Shacsho, and Edith, his first wife
Lease by 1 to 2, for their lives, of their shop next to the Hykemosepitt, between the shop which William Love holds on the north and the shop which Richard and Edith inhabited on the day of making these presents, on the south. With covenant to repair and not to alienate it without permission. Consideration: 6s. yearly and to the Abbot and Convent of Keynesham 2d. yearly at the same terms. The property to be forfeited if the rent is in default for 3 months.
Witnesses: Adam Whiteson, Mayor; William Sweyn; Alexander the Dyare; Henry Hurel; Richard Boye, and others.
Dated: Bath, 10 May, 13 Edw. III.
Language: Latin

Former Reference number BC151/1/29