| | | | | 1 - Lease for a year (release missing) of a messuage called the George in Caversham, adjoining Caversham Street on the west and a footway from the north end of Caversham Bridge to Caversham Lodge on the south; a messuage called the Leather Bottle and 2 a. land in Hurley; two messuages, a brewery, malthouse and newly erected storehouse on the south side of Castle Street, Reading; a messuage in Castle Street, Reading, called the Golden Bear, adjoining the Old Ward [later St Mary's Butts] on the east and the Minster Mill Stream on the south; a messuage and two little garden plots on the north side of Castle Street, Reading; a messuage, formerly three little messuages or tenements, on the north side of Castle Street, Reading; a messuage and premises called Jemmatts on the north side of Castle Street, Reading; two messuages on the east side of Silver Street, Reading; two messuages on the east side of the Reading-Basingstoke road at Three Mile Cross, Shinfield, formerly one messuage used as an inn called the Globe, later the Three Sugar Loaves; a messuage and premises near the waterside in Streatley; a piscary, water and fishery in the River Thames at Streatley; the ferry across the River Thames between Streatley and Goring, with all tolls and profits; a messuage, orchard and garden adjoining a common formerly called Pinks Green and now Oak Field Green, in Sulhamstead Bannister; the Falcon Inn, Theale; several pieces of meadow ground in Theale Mead, in the parish of Tilehurst; a messuage called the Roebuck, Tilehurst; two closes of land adjoining the same, and adjoining the Reading-Pangbourne road on the south (2 1/2 a.); a close of arable land (1 a.) in Tilehurst; a messuage and wharf in Wargrave called the Wharf House, and a piece of land (1 a.) adjoining the same, called the Gore; and two messuages and a shop on Peppard Green, Rotherfeld Peppard, Oxfordshire, at the end and on the south side of a lane leading to Henley upon Thames. |
| | | | | 2 - Assignment of leases of a messuage and premises on the south side of Castle Street, 'over against' [opposite?] the common gaol, adjoining Deane's malthouse on the east, and extending southwards over the Hallowed Brook up to Minster Mills Brook; a messuage and two backsides or garden plots on the south side of Castle Street, extending back to the River Kennet on the south; a toft or parcel of ground called the Sanctuary (1 r.) on the south side of Crown Lane, adjoining the garden of the Hand on the west and the garden of the Blue Anchor on the east, with a messuage newly erected in 1728; a corner messuage and two messuages adjoining the same in Fisher Row, High Street and Gutter Lane; three little tenements and garden plots, lately two and formerly one, adjoining Horn Street or the Old Warden Street [sic] on the east; and a piece of meadow or pasture ground (1 a.), separated from the Lower Plummery by a ditch called the Plummery Ditch, adjoining the Grange Close on the south, with a right of way through the Forbury and the right to fish in the Plummery Ditch; all in Reading, by various leases dated from 1698 to 1781. |
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