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AN AGREEMENT made the 13th June 1904 BETWEEN HARRIET KESTELL the wife of James Lobb Kestell of Trethillick in the Parish of Padstow Cornwall Farmer and ELLEN SELINA TAMBLYN of Truro in the said County widow (who together with the executors administrators and assigns of the said ELLEN SELINA TAMBLYN are hereinafter called the landladies) of the one part and WILLIAM HENRY MAY of Summercourt in the said County (who together with his executors administrators and assigns is hereinafter called the tenant) of the other part whereby it is mutually agreed as follows

  1. The landladies agree to let and the tenant agrees to take from the 24th day of June 1904 All that dwelling house carpenters shop garden orchard and three fields containing altogether two acres three rods and fifteen perches which said premises are situate at or near Summercourt aforesaid adjoining the road from Summercourt to Bodmin and a parcel of the Manor of Trevetheleck and commonly known as Little Goenrounson

  2. The tenancy shall be a yearly one (as long as the estate and interest of the said Harriet Kestell in the said premises shall continue and either party shall be entitled to give or receive twelve months notice to quit to expire on any midsummer day

  3. The tenant shall pay as rent of the said premises the sum of £14 per annum such rent to be payable half yearly at Xmas and Midsummer.

  4. All rates and taxes (except landlords property tax) shall be paid by the tenant and the tithes by the landladies.

  5. All the land shall be kept in permanent pasture and shall not be broken at any time

  6. The internal repairs of the dwelling house and buildings shall be done by the tenant and all external repairs by the landladies.

  7. All crops grown on the premises shall be consumed thereon

  8. All hedges gates and fences shall be put into good repair by the landladies and thereafter kept in good repair and so left by the tenant at the end of the tenancy

  9. The premises generally shall be farmed in a husband like manner

All crops growing on the premises at the end of the tenancy shall be taken by the landladies or their incoming tenant at a price to be mutually agreed or at a valuation to be made in the usual way
AWITNESS the hands of the parties
Harriet Kestell witness Walter O.Wellington Accountant Wadebridge
Ellen Selina Tamblyn witness Charles Wm Bendle
W H May Witness W. T. Kestell
 

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Contributed by Malcolm McCarthy, (Malc in Sunny Padstow), who has the original document.