| Description | 1. William Lee Brookes of Whitchurch, co. Salop, and Edward Williams of Oswestry in the same county, Gents.
2. The Wrexham and Acton Collieries Co. Ltd.
Counterpart lease for 21 years of mines, seams, veins, delphs, measures, lymphs, strata and rows of coal, cannel, slack and underground clay and iron and ironstone together with outbuildings and lands containing 10 acres 3 roods and 21 perches near the town of Wrexham, co. Denbigh, and under a messuage called Acton House.
Rent: £30 p.a. for every statute acre in respect of coals, cannel and slack, a royalty of 6d per ton on all bricks made from the clay, and a royalty of 1/6 per thousand bricks manufactured.
Plan of lands appended.
See also no. 239
Endorsed:
(i) 1885, Dec 5
Memorandum that the messuage called Acton House mentioned in the above lease was conveyed by Robert William Wynne of Garthewin, co. Denbigh, Esq., to Robert Alfred Cunliffe of Acton Park in the same county, Bart., on that day.
(ii) 1895, Oct 24
1. Robert William Wynne of Garthewin, co. Denbigh, Esq.
2. The Wrexham and Acton Collieries Co. Ltd.
Counterpart Lease for 5 years of mines, seams, veins, delphs, measures, lymphs, strata and rows of coal, cannel, slack and underground clay and iron and ironstone under a messuage called Stansty Lodge in the parish of Wrexham, co. Denbigh.
Rent: £17-10-0 p.a.
Loosely inserted:
(i) 1899, April 18
1. The Wrexham and Acton Collieries Co. Ltd.
2. Robert William Wynne of Garthewin, co. Denbigh, Esq.
Surrender of a seam of coal called crank coal mentioned in the principal lease above.
Consideration: 5s
(ii) 1899, April 19
1. Robert William Wynne.
2. The Wrexham and Acton Collieries Co. Ltd.
Counterpart Lease for 15 years of a seam of coal called crank coal under a messuage called Stansty Lodge in the parish of Wrexham, co. Denbigh.
Footage rent: £285 |