Description | Lease 900 years - reciting that premises comprised of a messuage and foldstead at Moregate, butting on Canklowe Feild east, the Moore of Rotherham south, a piece of ground belonging to Robert Darwent north and a little court of Tooker's west, were given to the Churchwardens of Rotherham for the use of the poor of Rotherham. - and reciting that the messuage and foldstead with 2 furnaces and a smithy and other buildings (since demolished and the materials sold for the benefit of the poor) were leased to Charles Tooker, gent., father of John, at a rent of £3 pa. but are now of far less value because of the buildings that were pulled down and of a general decay in the value of property in and about Rotherham but especially at Moorgate. of the said messuage and foldstead, at an annual rent of £ 10s. payable to the Churchwardens of Rotherham for the benefit of the poor of Rotherham.
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