Indenture dated 3 October 1801 which enabled the lease of a piece or spot of Ground and Premises of Lydd to Mr John Longley from the Baylif Jurats and Commonalty of Lydd.

This indenture sealed on 6th April 1807 confirms the agreement made between John Longley, the miller of Lydd and Thomas Finn, representative of the commonalty and corporation of the town of Lydd. This covenant deed confirms all of the appurtenances and their respective predicaments that were granted to John Longley by the corporation of Lydd in 1801. This document is significant for it illustrates the number and the widespread geographical distribution of the lands that Longley possessed. The lease was to be for a duration of 999 years.

This document is a correct plan of the quarter of an Acre of Land leased to John Longley to erect a Mill on, as described in the annexed Lease as requested by Thomas Finn the Present Occupier. This plan was produced on 2 May 1812.

This covenant deed is an assignment of Corn Wind Mill and Premises in Lydd, by way of a Mortgage for securing £600 and interest. On 27 May 1830, this indenture was made enabling Mr. Thomas Finn's successful mortgaging of the corn mill and premises to John Jeken Kennett, surgeon of Eythorne.

This covenant deed dated 14th April 1832 is important in that it informs us of the financial difficulties that Mr. Thomas Finn was having to confront as well as the sudden death of John Jeken Kennett. We see that Thomas Kennett, the son and heir of the surgeon, finding that Mr Finn was unable to repay the mortgage provided the initial solution of advancing him an additional £200. The indenture then goes on to record the subsequent collaboration between the solicitor and Mr. Finn in devising a temporary solution to the problem which was to jointly assign the mortgage on the mill to Henry Elve of Dover, gentleman, for the combined sum of £800.

The Supplementary Abstract of the Title of the Trustees of the Estate of Thomas Finn was drawn up in 1847 for the purpose of providing a more detailed and comprehensive account of the Covenant deeds than that provided by the initial Abstract of Title. The Supplementary Abstract is significant in that there are a number of annotations in the margin which inform us of the extensive activity of the Probate court in imposing rigorous safeguards for the implementation of the will of Thomas Finn. The oft - repeated phrase of "Will not to be delivered over" illustrates the extent to which the Probate court was determined to reaffirm the legitimacy of the Covenant deeds of 1801, 1807, 1812 and 1830. Therefore, the annotations serve to emphasise the degree to which the implementation and safeguarding of an individual's will was a constant work in progress over a number of years and decades.

The Abstract to Title provides detailed coverage on the aforementioned transactions regarding the Corn Mill of Lydd in Kent. It is important to note the fact that Mr. Thomas Finn died in 1847 ; the year in which this record was compiled. Therefore, this important development was in all likelihood the reason for why this document was produced.

The Assignment of the Equity of Redemption in a Corn Mill records that following the death of Thomas Finn, the trustees of his estate attempted to sell the mill to pay off the mortgage. The trustees of his estate were Francis Finn of Old Romney and the two graziers of Lydd, Stephen Burgess and Charles Allen. The indenture records the first public auction of the mill at the George Inn in April 1847 and its subsequent failure to produce any bids leaving the trustees with no option but to transfer the legal title to Henry Elve for £878.12s.9d which was the amount of his mortgage advance plus 5% interest per annum.

This Abstract of the Title of the Administrators of Henry Elve was produced at some time after 20 November 1865. Once again, the Abstract records the agreements of the Covenant deeds from 1801 to 1865. The Abstract informs us of how following the death of Henry Elve, his widow Ann Elve of Dover acquired the role of her husband's "Administratix". The document proceeds to reveal the fact that in her capacity of "Administratix", Ann Elve organised a second public auction for the mill at the George Inn in December of that year which on this occasion was successful.

The Assignment produced on 15 February 1866 records the success of the second public auction which was organised by Ann Elve of Dover, the widow of Henry Elve. The highest bidder was the miller Thomas Goble, of Lydd, who is recorded as obtaining the lease for the mill along with its premises for £835 in February 1866. As a result of this critical development, the mill remained in the ownership of the Goble family for the rest of its existence.

Includes sheet giving value of New Mill, Lydd (totalling £720), sheet with note on the smock mill, New Romney, sheet with rough map of Dover Road yard and other notes.

The Assignment produced on 5 April 1905 records the death of Thomas Goble in the preceding year. This document informs us of how the mill passed into the hands of the surviving son Thomas Joseph Goble, after having paid £250 to Mary Isabella Goble (presumably his sister), the other surviving executor of Thomas Goble.