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Dated 21st September 1878

Robert Edyvean Esquire
To
Mr Charles F Pellow
 
Lease of dwelling House shop and Premises
In Fore Street Bodmin
 
From Midsummer 1878
Term 14 tears
Expires Midsummer 1892
 
Rent £20: 0; 0:

This indenture made the 21st day of September One thousand eight hundred and seventy eight between Robert Edyvean of the Borough of Bodmin in the County of Cornwall Gentleman of the One part and Charles Fleetwood Pellow of Bodmin aforesaid grocer of the other part witnesseth that for and in the consideration of the yearly rent hereinafter reserved and of the covenants conditions and agreements hereinafter contained and on the part of the said Charles Fleetwood Pellow his executors administrators and assigns to be paid observed and performed the said Robert Edyvean doth hereby demise and lease unto the said Charles Fleetwood Pellow his executors administrators and assigns all that messuage and dwelling house shop and premises situate in Fore Street in the Borough of Bodmin aforesaid now and for some years past in the occupation of Mary Ann Pellow as tenant thereof together with all buildings yards ways sewers drains watercourses privileges easements and appurtenances whatsoever to the said messuage shop and premises belonging or in anywise appertaining or usually held or occupied therewith or reputed to belong or be appurtenant thereto to have and to hold the said messuage shop and premises hereby demised or intended so to be with their appurtenances unto the said Charles Fleetwood Pellow his executors administrators and assigns from the twenty fourth day of June last for and during and unto the term of fourteen years yielding and paying therefore during the continuance of the said term unto the said Robert Edyvean his heirs and assigns the clear yearly rent or sum of twenty pounds sterling by equal quarterly payments namely on the twenty ninth day of September the twenty fifth day of December the twenty fifth day of March and the twenty fourth day of June in every year free from all taxes sales and assessments whatsoever (except the landlord’s property tax) the fist quarterly payment thereof to be made on the twenty ninth day of September next and the said Charles Fleetwood Pellow doth hereby for himself his heirs executors administrators and assigns covenant with the said Robert Edyvean his heirs and assigns that the said Charles Fleetwood Pellow his executors administrators or assigns will from time to time during the said term pay unto the said Robert Edyvean his executors administrators and assigns the said yearly rent of twenty pounds on the days and in manner hereinbefore mentioned and will also pay and discharge all taxes rates and assessments whatsoever (except the landlord’s property tax) now or hereafter to become payable for or in respect of the said premises hereby demised or any part thereof and also shall and will from time to time and at all times during the said term well and sufficiently repair support amend sustain and keep the said messuage shop and premises as hereby demised with all manner of necessary reparations and amendments whatsoever (except the wall and slated roofs thereof) and the same and every part thereof in such good and substantial repair together with all the fixtures which during the said term shall be placed therein and shall not come under the denomination of tenant’s fixtures shall and will at the end or other sooner determination of the said term hereby granted leave and yield up unto the said Robert Edyvean his heirs or assigns and shall and will during the seventh and last years of the said term at proper and reasonable times paint with good and well mixed oil colours and in a workmanlike manner all the wood and ironwork (both internal and external) belonging to the said dwelling house and premises which usually have been or ought to have been covered with paint and shall at his or their own expense within one month after such respective paintings produce and leave with the said Robert Edyvean his heirs or assigns his agent a certificate under the hand of the architect or surveyor of the said Robert Edyvean of the due performance of the covenants of the painting herein contained and also shall not nor will carry nor permit nor suffer to be carried on in the said dwelling house shop and premises hereby demised or any part of the business or trade of a fellow chandler soap boiler or victualler or any other noisome obnoxious or offensive trade whatsoever and shall not nor will at any time or times during the continuance of the term hereby granted demise act or let in any manner part with this indenture of lease or the said demised premises or any part thereof to any person or persons without the consent of the said Robert Edyvean his heirs or assigns first had and obtained in writing and further that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Robert Edyvean his heirs or assigns agents and workmen at all reasonable times to enter into and upon the said premises to view and inspect the state and condition of the repairs thereof Provided always and it is hereby declared and agreed by and between the said parties to these presents that if it shall happen that the said yearly rent of twenty pounds hereinbefore reserved or any part thereof shall be behind and unpaid by the space of twenty one days next after any of the said days or times whereon the same ought to be paid as aforesaid or if the said Charles Fleetwood Pellow his executors administrators or assigns shall become bankrupt or shall file any petition for liquidation of his affairs or shall offer or make any composition with his creditors or shall suffer any execution to be leased of his good or effects or of this lease or the premises hereby demised or any part thereof respectively shall be taken in execution or otherwise seized under any writ or process of law or if the said Charles Fleetwood Pellow shall assign this present lease or shall deposit the same as a security for any money or otherwise part therewith without the previous consent in writing of the said Robert Edyvean his heirs or assigns or shall not in all things well and truly observe perform fulfil and keep all and singular the covenants clauses and agreements which on his part or behalf are or ought to be observed performed fulfilled or kept according to the true intent and meaning of these presents then and in either of the said cases it shall and may be lawful for the said Robert Edyvean his heirs or assigns into and upon the said demised premises or any part thereof on the name of the whole to re-enter and the same to have again repossess and enjoy and the said Charles Fleetwood Pellow his executors administrators or assigns and all or any other occupier or occupiers of the said demised premises or any part thereof thereout and from thenceforth utterly to expel and remove and the said Robert Edyvean for himself his heirs and assigns doth hereby promise and agree with and to the said Charles Fleetwood Pellow his executors administrators and assigns that he and they duly paying the said rent hereby reserved and performing and observing all and every the covenants conditions exceptions and agreements herein on his or their parts to be paid done performed and kept shall and may peaceably and quietly have hold occupy possess and enjoy the said premises hereby demised with the appurtenances during the term hereby granted without any let suit trouble hindrance disturbance claim or denial whatsoever of from or by the said Robert Edyvean his heirs or assigns or any other person or persons whomsoever claiming or to claim by from or under them or any of them In witness whereof the said parties hereto have hereunto interchangeably set their hands and seals the day and year first above written

Signed Sealed and delivered by the said Robert Edyvean in the presence of

(Signed) Preston J Wallis of Bodmin Solicitor
(Signed) Wm G Hayes his clerk

(Signed) Robt Edyvean

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Transcribed by David Casley from a document in the Malcolm McCarthy Collection.