BoAr:Doc:Eastgate
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Summary of a Bourne legal document: Lease of a
house in Eastgate: 1799.
Names
mentioned:
People Places
William Baker Bourne
William Brittain Eagate
Matthew Dawkins Eastgate
Thomas Dawkins the
several fens of Bourne
Major Hart
William Oliver
Widow Thiselton
William Thiselton
Rowland Torye
Edward Wherry
24
March 1799.
1st part: William Brittain
of Bourne, farmer. Inherited
property of William Baker, late of Bourne, farmer. He, in turn had inherited from Thomas
Dawkins, of Bourne, farmer. He in turn, from Matthew Dawkins of Bourne, farmer.
2nd part: William Thiselton
of Bourne, farmer and grazier.
For
5/-, Brittain leased for 1 year, to Thiselton, a messuage in Bourne Eagate or
Eastgate. Long since, occupied by Rowland Torye, late of [blank] Thiselton Widow. Now occupied by Thiselton
and William Oliver.
Brittain
retained all land in the fens, which had been allotted under the Enclosure Act
in lieu of common grazing pertaining to the property..
Signed Wm Brittain.
Witnessed:
Maj[?o]r Hart. Edw[ar]d Wherry.
Commentary.
In
this deal, we see the separation of the common grazing rights from the house to
which they had belonged. Since this is a
short lease, the separation was at this point, only temporary but the trend is
clear.
This
document and property appear to be mentioned in [Egdoc015].
[A2.1
Eastgate]