Unidad documental simple Y/LEG/2/6/23 - Lease for a tenement in Micklegate

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Lease for a term of 21 years at a yearly rent of £3 made between (1) the Mayor and Comonalty of the City of York and (2) John Greenup, taylor.
" . . . all that messuage or tenement with the appurtenances situate standing and being in Micklegate within the said city and now in the tenure or occupation of the said John Greenup or his assigns and lately repaired by him (which same messuage or tenement with the appurtenances was given and bequeathed by the last will and testament of Richard Pickard late of Brereton in the parish of Rugeley and the County of Stafford Notary Publique bearing the date of twelfth day of August which was in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and eighty seven (after the determination of the life estates therein mentioned) to the City of York to the intent that the yearly rent thereof might be disposed of by the Chief Magistrates and Governors thereof from time to time for the relief of the poor of the parish of Bishophill the New in the said City (where he was educated and where both his parents lye interred) that so may penny loaves of good wheat bread might be given upon every Sunday before noon to so many poor people of the said parish as the yearly rent thereof would afford that every one of them that come to the church to hear the Comon Prayers of our Church of England might receive a loafe and [wist] else [] they be such as use to come and are disabled by sickness lameness or other infirmities and if it should happen at any time there be not [] parish [] qualified as aforesaid to carry away so much bread as should be allotted that then others out of the adjacent parish[] added to. . ."

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