| Description | Lease by John Addenbrooke Addenbrooke of Wollaston Hall, parish of Oldswinford, Worcs., Esq., Edward Addenbrooke Addenbrooke of the parish of Kingswinford, Staffs., Esq. and Elizabeth Grazebrook of Stourton Castle, parish of Kinfare, Staffs., widow (executors of Thomas Worrall Grazebrook), and Michael Grazebrook of Audnam, parish of Kingswinford, ironmaster and Benjamin Whitehouse, late of the Hill near Dudley, Worcs., ironmaster, to James Hunt of Dudley, ironmaster of messuages, lands and underlying minerals at Coseley (Big Coal Pit Croft, Little Coal Pit Croft, New Piece, Middle Croft, Cowpasture, Over Ettsall, Little Croft, Backfield, Tomkys Field alias the Ivy House Meadow, Rudding Meadow, Mill or Windmill Field, Daggerhall Piece, Bear buildings etc.), many near Ivyhouse Lane, for terms of 27 years from 25 Dec. 1821, 28 years from 29 Sept. 1821, 20 years fom 25 Dec. 1821, 7 years from date, 8 years from 29 Sept. 1821, 22 years from 29 Sept. 1821, 13 years from same, and 21 years from same; at £3 10/- per acre pa., £58 p.a. and £4 per acre p.a. and up to 12 tons of lump coal p.a., £3 p.a., £25 p.a., £4 per acre p.a., £2 p.a., £37 5/- p.a., respectively; also £37 p.a. for a term of 28 years for various surface structures; royalties of 2/- a ton for Thick or Main coal, 9d a ton for Thin coal (Brooch, Flying Red, Heathen and Lower Mine) and 3d a ton for slack, 3d a sack of coke (of 5 baskets of 2 Winchester bushels) and 2.5d a sack for coke made from Thin coal; size of types of coal defined; 1s 9d, 1/- and 6d per ton for various classes of ironstone named; various quantities of free coals from specified leaseholds to the lessors; all measuremenst based on 120lb to the cwt and 21cwt to the ton; working covenants; reparations and surface damage; reserving woods, clay, surface clay etc. as specified; erection of furnaces; preference to material supplied by the nearest works of Viscount Dudley and Ward; plan attached.
Endorsed assignment (26 Mar. 1834) of the lease by Hunt, with the consent of T.W. Grazebrook's executors and of Michael Grazebrook of Belle Vue, parish of Hales Owen, Salop, ironmaster and William Grazebrook of Audnam, parish of Kingswinford, Staffs., ironmaster (executors of Michael Grazebrook), and of Sarah Whitehouse and Edwin Whitehouse of the Borough of Monmouth (executors of Benjamin Whitehouse), to Henry Bickerton Whitehouse of Ettingshall Hall, parish of Sedgley, Staffs., coal and ironmaster; recites deeds, agreements and partnership matters. |