Lease agreements in 1791 were pretty cool. A quick thread.
Opening it.
Fully opened.
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I gather it's a lease that is part of a lease-and-release, as it's just symbolic consideration, only 5 shillings for a year. nottingham.ac.uk/manuscriptsand…
As I understand it, the lease-and-release was a way to hide the transfer of property. It divided sales into two parts, first a lease (for peppercorn consideration), then a release (for the rest), so neither was a full sale that needed to be made public.
nottingham.ac.uk/manuscriptsand…
CC; @mollyxbrady, who probably knows a lot about this kind of stuff. :)
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