Add MS 89290/1/2

A bundle of papers concerning legal disputes over the lease of Bowmans Green Farm, Tyttenhanger, between Philip Yorke and lease holders James Topham, Mr Horne and his widow Mrs Horne.

Contents:

• Paper wrapper inscribed ‘Papers relating to Bowmans Green Farm at Tyttenhanger & a troublesome Tenant. 1789’ [Lease of Bowmans Green Farm to James Topham by Philip Yorke]
• 'Reply to Mr Vernons Answers to Observations and Alterations made in the Lease from Yorke Esqr. To Topham’ [1789]. Docket title: ‘Heads of Agreement, proposals & drafts of intended lease to Topham at Bowmans Green farm’.
• Award of arbitration to Mrs Horne, 13 May 1793’. Starts: ‘Memmorandum May 13, 1793’ signed by Edwd. Kitchiner and Robert Young.
• Bundle of remarks on a document relating to the dispute about the tenancy [by John Vernon?]
• Remarks on Draft of Lease from Topham to Yorke [by Yorke or Vernon?], with marginal comments on right hand side of folios.
• Letter from Mr Bentley to Mr Vernon, 30 January 1789, enclosing a draft lease of Bowmans Green Farm from Yorke to Topham, and a copy of the heads of agreement, in Charles De Laet’s handwriting. Comments on both the draft lease and the agreement [by Mr Bentley?] on strips of paper have been pinned to the two documents at appropriate passages.
• ‘Answers to Mr Bentley’s Observations and alterations in the lease from P. Yorke Esqr to Jas Topham’. Note on verso: Dated on verso 23 [February?] 1789. With ‘Reply to Mr Vernons Answers to Observations and alterations made in the Lease from Yorke Esqr to Topham’; and ‘Minutes taken in Presence of Mr De Laet & Mr Horne, 30 March 1789’ [another version of the minutes is listed below]
• Two covering letters from William Bentley to John Vernon, relating to the lease from Yorke Esq to Topham. Red Lion Square, 25 February 1789 and 12 March 1789.
• Comments on the Yorke to Topham lease from Charles De Laet, submitted to Mr Yorke and Mr Vernon. Undated.
• Letter from Mr Horne to [John Vernon?]. London, 8 February 1787. Requesting repairs and alterations to house at Colney before renewal of lease.
• ‘Mr Horne’s Cravings’. Document listing requests by Mr Horne regarding a lease, with comments [by John Vernon?
• Minutes taken in presence of Mr De Laet and Mr Horne 30th March 1789 [n.b. another version of the minutes is listed above].
• Bowmans Green Farm: summary of the lease and tenancy, 1779-1793. Includes the 1779 agreement between James Topham and Charles De Laet, Mr Yorke’s agent; the disposal of lease by James Topham to Mr Horn in 1788 or 1789; minutes of covenants and condition at meeting between Charles De Laet, Mr Yorke’s agent, and Mr Horne, the new tenant; the notice to quit delivered to his widow, Mrs Horne, February 1793; and subsequent dealings with Mrs Horne.