Friday 9 December 2016

Two early seals

The two seals shown here were used by George Beaumont of Chapelthorpe in 1688 and 1689.
The first one is on his lease, to his father, of the main family property at Darton, dated 20 December 1688. George was getting married, and the property had been settled on him, but his parents were not going to move out, so it was leased back to his father.



The second is on a document dated 6 June 1689, the counterpart of George's father's lease to him of the property at Chapelthorpe that was to be where George and his family would live.



(This Archive, Box 17/001 and 17/002)

For the property at Darton,  George was going to receive £100 per year rent from his father, and for that at Chapelthorpe, George agreed to pay £27-10s-6d per year.

The two impressions come from different seals.