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- 2 May 1539 (Creation)
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1 item, parchment
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Parties: (1) Jesus College (2) John Lyne (butcher). Lease of their close at the west end of the Schole House as it is enclosed, abutting south on Jesus Lane, north on the great close belonging to Jesus College, west on the great close, east on the Schole House end of the College and wall.
Term: 40 years from Michaelmas 1539. Rent: 6s.
Covenants - lessee to erect mud walls along the west side and the north end of the said close of the same breadth and height as the east wall of the College untry [for entry] tower is, and the same walls erected and made to cowner in reed and clay after the best and surest manner that can be devised and to find all manner of reparations at his own proper cost and charges except only the walls of the east side and the stone wall at the south end of the said close and mud walls. Lessee licensed to make a gate in the stone wall on Jesus Lane at the house end abutting on the close, at his own proper cost and charges