Articles of Agreement.

(1) William Rogers of St. Asaph, surgeon,

(2) William Grindley, Whittington, farmer.

Wm Rogers for the rents, covenants and considerations to be reserved in a lease hereafter to be granted promises to execute a lease on or before Lady day next to Wm Grindley of the messuage and farm called the Fields of Wm Rogers in Maesbrook Ucha, Kinnerly with the lands belonging and 5 other messuages in Maesbrook Ucha late in the holding of Thomas Ratcliffe but now of Wm Grindley, to hold to Grindley for 10 years from Lady day next, paying £60 p.a. at Michaelmas and Lady day the 1st payment at Michaelmas next in which intended lease is to be the following covenants:- Grindley covenants to pay the rent at the days mentioned; a covenant to pay Rogers £10 more for every acre he ear, plough, digupon, convert into tillage of the meadow or pasture land demised, and in proportion for any greater or lesser quantity than an acre so broken up such payments to be made at the times of paying the yearly rent next after breach of the covenant. Covenant that if the yearly rent is behind or unpaid by 21 days or if Grindley lets the messuage and farm (the Fields) or lands belonging without licence in writing of Rogers then the lease to be void without Rogers making any entry or bringing any ejectment. Covenant by Grindley to pay all lewns and taxes and every imposition on the premises, land tax and chief rent excepted, and leave the buildings on all the premises well thatched with straw to be found by him off the premises and not taken from the farm and the glass windows in good order and repair and all the hedges, gates, stiles, ditches and watercourses in good order and condition nor crop, lop or cut down any of the trees on the premises or cut or carry off any thorns or brushwood, but allow Rogers free liberty at all times of the year to come upon the premises and inspect the buildings and make such repairs as he may see occasion and to plant any trees whatever without any recompense for any injury which may be done thereby and Grindley shall so carry with his team all the slates, lime, stone, timber and other materials necessary to put any buildings in order without any satisfaction from Rogers, and shall not take more than 3 crops of grain from the premises at any time without laying the same down successively with clover twelve pounds of good seed to every bushel sowing of wheat and shall spend and consume all the hay, straw, fodder and compost on the premises and not to break up in any one of the 3 last years of the term more lands thereof than he usually did in the preceding years laying the same down with good clover seed in an husbandlike manner under the penalty of £10 an acre and so in proportion for any greater or lesser quantity; and that Grindley will execute a counterpart of a lease to the purport in these articles contained before or on 25th March next to be prepared by Messrs. Dovaston and Bratton and the expense to be divided between Rogers and Grindley, and Messrs. D. & B are empowered immediately to prepare the same. Covenants by Rogers: that he will on or before-25 March 1796 put The Fields in good order and repair having what materials are wanting carried by the team of Grindley and pay the Land Tax and chief rent and allow for what clover shall be in the lands at the expiration of the term by 2 indifferent persons, one chosen by each party, and allow such parts of grain of winter corn in the last year of the terms as is consistent with the custom of the parish of Kinnerly and it shall be lawful for Grindley to let any or all of the 5 small messuages as he thinks proper observing the covenants re reparation of the premises the Fields being only restricted in that respect, and that Grindley shall be allowed to take off or sell the last year's much made the previous winter. Roger agrees Grindley shall let a small croft (an acre or thereabouts) to Thos. Ratcliffe while he continues as undertenant to Grindley and no longer in that house adjoining the Green lately occupied by the Wea (?ver) and also the straw or part of it had from the farm to be used for thatching the lease to be drawn for 21 years and that £5 is to be allowed out of the half years rent due 29 September 1795 for what trespass is or may be done by the falling or carrying away of timber on the premises.

Signed and sealed: William Rogers, Wm. Grindley.

Witness: Edwd. ?acrd.

Docketed: Rogers to Grindley Articles for a Lease of several Messuages and Lands situate at Maesbrook in the parish of Kinnerley County of Salop.

Signed the 15th day of September, 1794. Paper.