LEASES

7pp., 42 x 32cm approx., fold marks, edges frayed with minor textual loss, staining, but all legible. Places names in margin (names might not be spelt correctly!): CoyChurch, Languynes, Glyncomeg, Llangunwyd, Betws Langonryd, St Bride's Minor, all in Glamorgan. Information columnised under following headings: Place| Tenants names| Commencement of Leases| Messuages & number of acres| lifes of [yeares?] in being| fines pd| Reserved rent yearly| Dayes Work| [Capons??]| Pulletts| herriotts| Improved rent or value att [?] yearely : wth any further information." See photos.

8vo, 4 pp. Bifolium. Text clear and complete. Fair, on lightly-aged paper, with slight wear to extremities. First three pages, with forty entries, beginning with 'To Thomas Ford 2l. 12s. 6d. and petition 2gs'. All entries with 'Stamps & parchms.' in left-hand column and 'Licenses from' in right-hand column. Subheading after nine entries reads 'Leases and Licenses ordered prior to 28th. January 1787 but not drawn the Fines not being returned as po. for Pr. Chamberlain'. All columns totalled at end. Docketed on last pager, with signature of 'Richd.

On one side each of five 46 x 14.5 cm slips of paper. Good: slightly aged and with rusting to staple. Begins 'Much comment having appeared in the Press during the last three years on the subject of a breach by the Government of Queensland of the contracts contained in the Pastoral Leases issued by that State, it is thought that a clear [altered from 'careful'] statement of the facts of the case would be useful to Bankers, Brokers and others having financial interests in Queensland. The facts of the case are set out in the following statement: - [...]'.