Transcript of the letter
9th November 1734
I am obliged to you for your letter of the 23rd of September [and] am desirous of renewing my Lease & as I shall not be in Town must beg the favour of you to let me know what Fine is expected & the money shall be remitted.
Beneath are all the Outgoings I can recollect which with the Repairs I have done taxes etc will come to as much or very under as I have made of the Farm. Your input will further oblige.
Your humble Servant
John Amyas
(Deopham Parsonage)
| Item | £ | s | d |
|---|---|---|---|
| To the Dean & Chapter | 19 | 0 | 0 |
| Acquittance1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| To the Vicar of Deopham, a pension of1 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| To the Vicar for Great Tythes pretended to be due to him & agreed to by Mr Cullyer late Tenant to the Dean & Chapter | 2 | 10 | 0 |
| To the Dean & Chapter of Norwich | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| Acquittance | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 25 | 14 | 8 |
Chapter of Canterbury Archives U63 70379
Transcription © G. Sankey
Comments
The wording of this letter indicates that John Amyas has had possession of the Lease for some time: this is not his first contract with the Dean and Chapter.
The comment about the Vicar’s “Great Tythes pretended to be due to him” presumably refers to the continuing dispute about Hawfield referred to in the Rev. Henry Rix’s letter of 1723 and Augustine Cullyer’s executor’s letter of 1725.
The reference to Mr Cullyer being the Tenant implies that in that time tenant and leaseholder were the same person. The later leases of John Amyas (e.g. 1772) shows him living in Hingham, so presumably there was a tenant in the manor/parsonage house (or it was uninhabitable).
The original letter
Reproduced courtesy of the Chapter of Canterbury; their ref U63 70379
Footnotes
- An acquittance is a written receipt confirming the settlement in full of a debt. ↩︎
- The schedule provided clearly shows £3 although the annual payment required to the vicar was £6. ↩︎
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