1621 Lease of Stocken Farm
From Lacey Green History
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click Stocken Wood
click The Lords of the Manor of Princes Risborough for list
Research by Joan West. click Stocken Farm for other records of the farm
Extract from Manor Documents dated 1631. For the full 1631 document click Manor Documents
In 1621 King Charles I was the Lord of the Manor. it was let to William Inkett and Elizabeth his wife.
William Inkett and Elizabeth his wife have sold their lease of the Manor of Princes Risborough to Susan Biscot.
this extract includes the lease of 'Stocking' to Henry Lacey
This includes all that messuage with its appurtenances called 'Stockings' in the parish of Princes Risborough and ten acres of land there and one acre of meadow in Bedmeade being a lot acre in the said parish of Princes Risborough and all now or late in the occupation of Henry Lacey demised or granted by the said William Inkett unto the said Henry Lacey by Indenture bearing the date the 13th day of August in 1621 for 36 years.
Susan Biscot now owns the the lease of the messuage with the said ten acres of land and one acre of meadow, and by the indenture of lease of 1621 shall henceforth be paid the rent of four pounds, five shillings and one couple of capons'?' for the term of years yet to come (the said lease previously made by William Inkett to Henry Lacey for divers years yet enduring.