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THIS INDENTURE Made
the 22nd day of April in the year of Our Lord 1763
BETWEEN the Right Honourable Mary Lady Dowager Arundell
(Widow of the Right Honourable Henry Late Lord Arundell
Baron of Wardordered) of the one part and Petherick bunt
of Cardinham in the County of Cornwall yeoman of the
other part WITNESSETH that the said Mary Arundell for
and in consideration of the sum of forty pounds of
lawful Money of Great Britain to her in hand at or
before the execution hereof well and truly paid by the
said Pertherick Bunt the receipt whereof the said Lady
Arundell doth hereby acknowledge and thereof acquit
release and discharge the said Petherick Bunt his
executors administrators and assigns by these presents
HATH demised and leased and by these presents She the
said Lady Arundell DOTH demise and lease unto the said
Petherick Bunt ALL that her the said Lady Arundell‘s
moiety or halfendale of ALL that tenement with its
appurtenances in or called Old Cardinham (parcel of the
Conventionary Lands of the Manor situate and lying
within the parish of Cardinham aforesaid) now in the
tenure or occupation of the said Petherick Bunt, which
the said tenement contains in the whole about 32 acres
(EXCEPT and always referred unto the said Lady Arundell
her heirs and assigns all tin tin stuff toll tin copper
lead and other ores mines minerals and metals whatsoever
now found or hereinafter to be found or wrought in or
upon the said hereby demised premises or any part
thereof with free liberty of ingress egress and regress
to search dig delve and work for the same and the tin
copper lead and other ores so found and wrought there to
dress and from there to take and carry away with all
sorts of carriages to her and their own proper uses and
also sink any shaft or shafts an to make any adit or
adits leat or leats and to erect any engine or engines
for ordaining or drawing the waters from the said mines
and to make use of any water or watercourse on the
premises for that purpose or for dressing or washing the
said ores as she or they shall think fit and also except
and always referred out of this present demise unto the
said Lady Arundell her heirs and assigns all timber and
timber like trees with liberty to fell cut down and
carry away the same at her and their will and pleasure)
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said moiety of the said tenement
and premises hereby demised with the appurtenances
(except before excepted) unto the said Petherick Bunt
his executors administrators and assigns from and
immediately after the death of Elizabeth Henwood for by
and during and unto the full end and term of the four
score and nineteen years thereunto next ensuing and
fully to be complete and ended IF the said Pertherick
Bunt (aged about 26 years ) and Grace Andrew (aged about
23 years) daughter of Elizabeth Andrew of Warleggon in
the County of Cornwall aforesaid widow)or either of them
shall so long live YIELDING AND PAYING therefore yearly
and every year from and after the commencement of the
term hereby demised during the continuaure thereof The
Rent or Sum of five shillings of lawful money of Great
Britain at or upon four of the most usual feasts or days
for payments of rent in the year, that is to say that
the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist, The feast of
Saint Michael the Archangel, The Birth of Our Lord God
and the Annunation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, by even
and equal portions The first payment thereof to be made
at such of the feasts as shall first and next happen
after the commencement of the said term and also
YIELDING paying and delivering one best beast or else
the sum of 30 shillings of like lawful money at the
election of the said Lady Arundell her heirs and assigns
for and in the name and lieu of an heriot at and upon
the several deaths of the said Petherick Bunt and Grace
Andrew, they or either of them dying after the
commencement of the said term PROVIDED always that if
the said yearly rent of five shillings best beast of
thirty shillings payable as aforesaid being lawfully
demanded, and no sufficient distress in or upon the said
demised premises can or may be found to satisfy the said
rent and heriot with the arrearages thereof
respectively, if any shall be, Then and at all times
from thenceforth it shall and may be lawful to and for
the said Lady Arundell her heirs assigns into the said
demised premises or any part thereof in the name of the
whole to reenter and the same to have again reposses and
enjoy as in her or their former estate AND by these
presents That he the said Petherick bunt his executors
administrators or assigns shall and will well and truly
pay or cause to be payed the said yearly rent of five
shillings and a best beast or thirty shillings for an
heriot AT such times and in such manner as herein before
appointed for payment of the same respectively AND
LIKEWISE shall and will do common suit to the Court and
Courts of the Manor of Cardinham aforesaid from time to
time during the term hereby demised upon reasonable
warning and perform all other suits sevices offices and
customs as other conventionary tenants of the said Manor
usually so AND ALSO that he the said Petherick Bunt his
executors administrators or assigns shall and will from
and after the commencement of the term hereby demised
during the continuance thereof at his or their own
proper costs and charges well and sufficiently repair
reedify hedge ditch fence and amend the said demised
premises and every part thereof in all needful and
necessary reparations and amendments whatsoever And the
same premises so well and sufficiently repaired
reedified hedged ditched fenced and amended as aforesaid
at the end, or other sooner determination of the said
term shall and well against the High and Chief Lord and
Lords of the fee and fees thereof for all High Rents
Reliefs Suits and Services issuing out and to be paid
out of and for the same as against all people and
persons whatsoever shall and will warrant acquit and
defend by these presents IN WITNESS whereof the parties
first above named have hereunto set their hands and
seals interchangeably the day and year first above
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Contributed by Malcolm McCarthy, (Malc in Sunny Padstow), who has the original document. |