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A History of the County of Somerset
… Wormingford (Essex), and she and her husband were granting leases there in 1431. 87 By the late 15th century, like other … 121 The latter's son Edward (d. 1720), who was granting leases in East Lydford in 1692, left a son, Edward Foyle of … 179 In the late 16th century a conversion from copyhold to leases for 99 years or two or three lives becomes evident, …
A History of the County of Somerset
… retained its traditional pattern, with 22 customary leases, a holding by widowhood, and 3 tenants at will in … tenants to let their holdings for seven years or more. 99 Leases for lives still continued on small holdings in 1834, … for the collection and burning of seaweed. Surviving leases divided the coast into two or three areas and …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… Mon. Angl. v, 572. Cal. Pat. 146777, pp. 483, 486. Leases of it were frequent in the 16th and 17th centuries …