House, garden and bowling green in Whitechapel Counterpart lease for 9 1/2 years: (1) William Megges the elder, citizen of London, draper (2) Richard Blounte [Blount] of Whitechapel, esq The house, recently repaired and built by Megges and now occupied by Blount, comprised a hall, dining chamber, parlour, kitchen, larder, etc, and a gatehouse with six chambers over it. The grounds included a garden 'compassed with a brick wall', a walk paved with brick set on either side with sycamore trees, two pieces of ground east of this 'unto the butt there towards the east', an alley or walk between the two butts, a bowling alley and an orchard adjacent, a banqueting house, and a long walk beyond it set on either side with elms. Megges reserved to himself the right to two pieces of garden west of the sycamore walk, half the fruit from all the fruit trees (the cost of upkeep and gathering the fruit to be shared equally with the tenant), and to himself, his wife and friends the right to walk in the grounds and use the bowling alley. The tenant would pay for all charges on the premises except the rent due to Jane Pooley, widow, to be paid by Megges. Including schedule of landlord's fixtures included in the lease (e.g. "in the greate parlour ... nyne painted stories"... ) Also notes on dorse and in margin made by William Megges junior in 1607, mentioning that some land leased by his father to Mr Blount had been held under a 100-year lease from George Pixley, and was included in a subsequent deed of feoffment by his father of 26 February 1596/7. Note: The date, originally 1596, has been amended to 1595, but the regnal year given tallies with the original date. 1596