Catalogue description Lease by Thomas Pettus of Rackheath, esq to Thomas Smyth of Little Ellingham yeoman, of...

Lease by Thomas Pettus of Rackheath, esq to Thomas Smyth of Little Ellingham yeoman, of a capital messuage in the occupation of Thomas Smyth with all lands, meadows, pastures, feedings and carr ground in Little Ellingham late in the occupation of William Beales, Andrew Beales and John Woodcock, deceased, and a parcel of wood ground called Lysters Wod and five roods of land or pasture, reserving to Pettus all manner of wood and timber, all courts leet, all copyhold lands and the dovehouse: for 5 years at an annual rent of £200 and four firkins of butter: not to break up or convert to tillage any of the pasture ground other than Foxborough and Clampe Closes; additional rent of 40s. per acre for doing so; to lay down part of the closes called Marlepitt Furlong; not to plough for more than three successive years and 30 acres of the arable to be handed over to Pettus at thefeast of the Annunciation before the end of the term: schedule attached being "an indented inventory of all the goods and household stuffe belonging to Thomas Pettus, esq., in the house demised to Thomas Smythe"

1 Oct