Lease, printed with ms additions. Lease of Ballyteige House by Rev John Luther and John Smith to Thomas Westropp Bennett, 29th Nov 1897. Printed form with details filled in by hand. 21 year lease for £40 p.a. Single sheet folded in half, red ruled margins, printed with text on three of four sides. Signed by the parties, with red paper dot after each name, and witnessed by John barrer, farmer, Ballyorgan, David Kavanagh, teller, National Bank Mountmellick and Thomas J.B. Bennett, Rathaney, Hospital. Folded in four and annotated on outside, Cathcart & Hemphill. Printed by Yeates Law Stationers, printers etc, 74 Dame Street and 13 Upper Ormond Quay, Dublin. Two circular red stamp duty embossings; Two Shillings and Six Pence, over crown flanked by 29 11 over roses thistles and shamrocks over 97/ ZX. Watermark A.B. Adams/ Superfine/ 1895, on one side and on other a fleur de lis over a shield with diagonal bar over monogram.