John Amyas
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Extract from the Lease
The following extract from the lease is contained in a bundle of papers held at the Canterbury Cathedral Archive; its author is not stated.
Deopham Leese
from Michaelmas 1735
Mr Amyas to deliver a Terrar in the first year and a Rental of the Names of all and every Tenant and Tenants whatsoever as well as Free-Hold as Copy-Holders holding of the said Manor together with the true and several Rents and Customers which they and every of them do yearly owe and pay, and also the several Names, Meets and Bounds of the Lands for which the said Rents, Services and Customs are due and payable and where the said Lands do severally or jointly lye, and in what Town of Hamlet. This is to be made and given in the tenth year.
Reproduced courtesy of the Chapter of Canterbury; their ref CCA-U63/70378
Transcription © G. Sankey
Comments from the Dean of Canterbury
The full lease for this renewal has not yet become apparent (other than the extract above), although the following document from the Rev. John Lynch, Dean of Canterbury, is revealing since it gives more information about the financial terms of the lease.
The following letter was addressed by the Dean of Canterbury to Mr Norris at Christ Church Canterbury; he seems to have some concerns that the lease was being renewed a year and a quarter late. (The previous lease started in 1727.)
Lambeth
Dec 13 1735
I consent to the Renewing the Lease of Deopham Rectory up to twenty one years from Michaelmas last for sixty eight pounds Fine.
J. Lynch
Dean of Cant.
I think the above is my consent in proper form. I must now ask you to Calculate for me exactly the following Fine, at one year & one Quarter’s Value for seven years elapsed.
This estate is confess’d to be lett by the Tenant at an Hundred & sixty two pounds a year, from which He has taken of His under Tenant Three Hundred & twenty pounds for a Fine to Grant them a Lease for twenty one years. The Annual Rent paid to the Lessor is thirty pounds & what is the exact Fine for six years & an half rent & also what is the Difference in the Fine between half a year after six years are elapsed & half a year at the first commencing of the Lease? My meaning is, had a Lease when six years were run out last Lady day been then fill’d up, & an application afterwards made for a Renewal the Michaelmas following when only half a year of the term was run out, how much less would that half years have come to than half a year dos when six years & an half are run out?
You will oblige me if you can answer these queries by the Post you Receive.
I am Sir
your very Faithful Servant
J Lynch
Reproduced courtesy of the Chapter of Canterbury; their ref CCA-DDc-Cantlet-196
Transcription © G. Sankey
The Dean’s original letter
Reproduced courtesy of the Chapter of Canterbury; their ref CCA-DDc-Cantlet-196
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