| Description | (a) John Isham of Ormond Street, London, esq., and Dorcas Kendall, as in Add Mss 12,449 (wid. of Maurice Kendall, esq., decd.) to (b) John Smith of North Bersted in the parish of South Bersted, husbandman, and Thomas Smith of Felpham, yeo
Capital messuage called Shripney Manor House, with all houses, outhouses, barns, stables, gardens, etc., belonging, and those several closes of land, arable, meadow and pasture (280a.), all late and now in the tenure or occupation of John Shepard; in South Bersted
Reserving to the lessors all timber, necessary thorns for hedging and fencing only excepted
Covenant by the lessess to keep the property in repair, being allowed upon request sufficient rough timber on the stem, to inbarn in the barns and upon the property all the corn, grain and hay which shall be growing, to spend upon the property all the fodder `thereof coming', to spread the dung, soil and compost upon the property, to leave in the last year 30a. land well ploughed and fallowed in the second earth, and likewise sow 30a. land with good clover seed, and not to plough or convert any of the meadow or pasture lands to tillage
Signatures and armorial seals (b)
Witnesses: Thomas Wybert, Abram Ibbotson, George Carleton
Endorsed with `A Shcedule or Particular of goods and Household stuff agreed to be Standards and to belong to and letten with the messuage ...', listing eight items of fittings or furniture, and the room containing each |