THIS INDENTURE made the Twenty-sixth day of December, in the Year
of our Lord, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Eight, and in
the Nineteenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the
Third, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland,
King, Defender of the Faith, &c. Between the Reverend John Gardenor
of Battersea, in the County of Surrey, Clerk, Allyn Simmons Smith,
John Camden and Thomas Rhodes, all of the same place Esquires, and
John Lumisden of the same, Surgeon, (being five of the Trustees
appointed for carrying into execution an Act of Parliament made and
passed in the fourteenth year of the Reign of his present Majesty
King George the Third, Intituled an Act for Re-building the Parish
Church of Battersea, in the County of Surrey, and for enlarging the
Church Yard of the said Parish Church) of the one part, and William
Dent of Battersea in the County of Surrey, Esquire, on the other part,
Witnesseth that for and in consideration of the sum of Thirty-one
Pounds Ten Shillings already paid and advanced by the said William
Dent to the Treasurer appointed for the purposes of the said Act of
Parliament, and also for and in consideration of the Yearly Rent and
Covenants hereinafter reserved and contained, they the said John
Gardenor, Allyn Simmons Smith, John Camden, Thomas Rhodes, and John
Lumisden, in persuance and in Execution of the powers and Authorities
vested in them in and by the said Act of Parliament, have Leased, Lett
and Demised, and by these presents, do Lease, Lett and Demise unto
the said William Dent, his Executors, Administrators and Assigns, All
that Pew situate and being in the Gallery on the North side of the
said Church of Battersea, (No. 62), with the appertenances. To have
and to hold the said Pew, with the appertenances unto the said William
Dent, his Executors, Administrators and Assigns, from the Feast day of
Saint Michael the Archangel, which was in the Year of our Lord, One
Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Seven, for and during, and unto
the full end and Term of Ninety Nine Years thence next ensuing and
fully to be complete and ended, Yealding and paying therefore Yearly
and every Year during the said Term, unto such person or persons, who
for the time being shall be lawfully appointed to collect or receive
the same Rent or sum of Two Shillings and Sixpence of lawful money
of Great Britain, on the Feast day of Saint Michael the Archangel,
in every year. And the said William Dent for himself, his Executors,
Administrators, and Assigns, doth Covenant and Agree to and with the
said before named Trustees, their Heirs and Assigns, That he the said
William Dent his Executors, Administrators and Assigns, shall and will
well and truly pay or cause to be paid the Rent hereby reserved and
made payable according to the reservation aforesaid, And also at his
and their own proper Costs and Charge, well and sufficiently repair
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