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Mary Foster

Document of the Month, July 2007

Ref No: 63-B/8              

Date: 1657

Mary Foster's Pension Plan

This document is from the archive collection of the Ravenfield Hall estate, which is part of the Parker Rhodes, Solicitors collection (ref no. 63-B).

It is an agreement between Mary Foster, a farmer's elderly widow from Ravenfield, and her son, Thomas. Under the agreement she assigned Thomas her share of her late husband's goods for £15 and leased the family farm to him for £7 per year, with various conditions attached. Mary may have wanted to hand over the farm to her son, while ensuring she was provided for in her old age.

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