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A History of the County of Gloucester
… manor by the late 17th century when many tenants held leases for a term of 99 years or three lives. The principal …
A History of the County of Warwick
… produced a long instrument in which he declared that any leases made by him of the manor had been extorted from him by …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… and the copyhold land in the lord farmer's possession on leases, renewed periodically, for 21 years and three lives … the Barton family, the tenants, and they held the farms on leases for years and for lives until the mid 1860s when the Ecclesiastical Commissioners granted them farming leases for 21 years. 86 The Commissioners, who had taken over …