| Description | Parties: 1) Queen Elizabeth I 2) Christopher Hilliard Property: land 6 acres called Ravenser Spurne [Spurn Head] and land 4 acres near Old Ravenser and Ravenser Spurne called Connyhill, having the sea on one side and the river Humber on the other, all liable to flooding by the sea and covered with sand Consideration: 2s per annum Notes: Christopher Hilliard to maintain hedges, ditches, fences, banks and sea-walls at own expense but with right of hedgebote 21 years. With Great Seal (fragment). |