| Description | Composite volume of paper books, possibly an auditor's lease book. Originally drawn up soon after the Restoration as a survey of church properties and officers, and thence added to with lease renewals in the C18. 6 sections
1. (f1r) Leases of D and C estates at various dates 1592-1618, with additional notes of later farmers, and of sums collected by bedels and rent collectors, followed by details of properties leased in London and Canterbury. Index on f65v. Tabulation of leases for lives f66v.
2. (f70r) Tabulation of farms of D and C estates. Original leases and renewals dated 1615-1669. (f114v) Pensions. (f115v) Appointments of bedels. (f117v) Appointments of church officers c1660. (f122v) Sale of woods. (f123r) Exchange of land at Mersham. (f123v) Presentations of parsonages and vicarages. (f125v) Grants and covenants of mayor and commonalty of Canterbury city of 1491. (f126r) Grants and covenants of P and C of 1491. (f126v) Indenture between D and C and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 31 May 1569. (f127v) Indenture between P and C and P and C of St Gregory's of [1537]. (f130v) Index.
3. (f133r) Three part catalogue of rents commonly known as Standard ('vulgo Standardum') of Christ Church: farms and hospitality, bedels, pensions. (f142v) 'Memorandum quod annorum praecedentum computi non registrantur; [saepe] (pro veteri Ecclesiae more) in Rotulis (de anno in annum usque ad annum 1663) inde confectis, manent in Archivis, fasciatim dispositi, digestique'. (143r) Account of receiver-general and treasurer, signed by the auditor, for 1663-1666.
4. (f152v) Table of D and C estate and Canterbury leases for 1708-1760, noting when renewed.
5. (f199r) Table of Canterbury rents listing tenants and quarterly rents.
6. (f236v) Table of D and C estate and Canterbury leases for 1753-1790 noting when renewed. |