Identity area
Reference code
JCCA/JCAD/3/CAM/HOB/2/1/1622
Title
Lease
Date(s)
- 26th November 1622 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 parchment
Context area
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Joan Smith, widow, and Richard Pettit, scrivener, her son. A piece of ground, sometime a garden ground in Walls Lane [Hobson Street], now in the occupation of Joan Smith, Widow Bearnes and Nicholas Turner, the east side lying next to ground in the occupation of Thomas Walden, the west side next to the lane, the south side abutting on a malthouse of the said Richard Pettit and the north side abutting upon tenements of the town of Cambridge. For a term of 40 years. Covenants: Lessees to repair the walls and grave the lane. Lessees covenant tobuild a house that shall cost at least £13. 6. 8.