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Grafton Estate Rentals from NRO: The following rentals of farms and cottages are taken from a series of rent books covering the 1700s and 1800s. Some books are missing, other books are not available due to their poor condition.
Yardley Gobion Rents 1737
Potterspury & Yardley Gobion rents combined until 1758
G1640

1737 ½ year Rent due at Lady Day 1738
Farms

1. James Baker For that part of those Fields called the Thri...where the underwood formally grew but afterwards grubbed up
10.0.0
For land part of late Richard Rockingham Copyhold
5.10.0
2. Thomas Dickens
11.5.0
3. Thomas French For Toll at Old Stratford late Mary Hillyer
7.10.0
4. Thomas Harris For his own part at per year 4

The Field Lane Lake late Ann Scrivener at per year 15
2.7.6

For land late Thomas Hillier 30
15.0.0
5. Alice Horton
8.0.0
6. Thomas Smith For sundry small parcells
1.11.3
7. Edward Scott
8.0.0
8. Thomas Scrivener For his own farm at per. annum
39.15.0

For the field called Whately
8.0.0

For the premises late Jones
3.0.0


50.15.0
9. George Wills
26.0.0
10. John Woodward For a cottage. Not settled

 

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