To Miss Morland
2 Godfrey [?]
Abingdon
Oxford 23 Jan 18[44]
My dear M
I will thank you to put the conditions specified in the 2 following pages with a more legal form and to send the draft of the same to me for perusal together with this Paper in the course of a day or so and that a fair copy may be returned to be by Saturday Eve which I may take to Marsh to be signed on Monday next by [hole in paper] [Mr B] and me
Truly yrs
Wm. Buckland
By how many witnesses should the signatures to supplementary agreement be [appended?]
The following Supplementary Agreement was made this day between the Rev. Dr Buckland and Mr William Buckland of Marsh Gibbon whereas it is stipulated in the agreement between the dated 2 of Sept 1843 and the s[ai]d Dr B shall allow the said W B out of his 2 years Rent the sum of £50 for extra labor in levelling all the Mounds, Banks, Headlands and Ridges and filling up the old ditches and quarries and in raising the furrows and other acts of husbandry necessary to correct and make uniform and complete the fragments of Pasture and Arable that are now [?] but such allowance to the words "H[o]us[e]maidlike Manner" it is now further agreed the place of these indefinite conditions the following shall be [?] viz that whatever sims of money shall be with consent of Dr Buckland in writing money shall be expended in manual labour. For the above named purposes by Mr B and an account of thereof in writing given to Dr B within 1 month after the expenses [?] [?] one half thereof shall be repaid by [?] [?] Dr Buckland out of Rent and with [?] in case Mr B shall not continue on the farm after 29 Feb 1847.
...another fourth part of the total sum so expended shall be repaid by Dr B out of the Rent of the 4th year and further that whatever earth be removed by waggons and carts and horses by Mr B with consent of Dr B in writing and for any of the above [?] [?] the entire cost of horsses and drivers and cars and waggons shall be borne by W B and the entire cost of labor for filling the carts shall be repaid by Dr Buckland to Mr B and it is further agreed that whereas Dr Buckland since the 29 Sept 1843 has purchased 2 more lots of land on the North side of his farm one called long [medal nice?] and measuring 7 1/2 Acres and another lot called The Breath and measuring 5 1/2 Acres the two lots of land shall be rented by Mr B for 4 years ending 29 Sept 1847 at the same price per acre and under the same conditions and modifications therof as to every respect as the [150?] Acres mentioned in the above [?] agreement to which this is a Supplement instead of the indefinite Clause that I shd allow £50 for levelling mounds and filling ditches, quaries etc. if done to my satisfaction substitute a new Clause that I shall pay for the labor of filling such carts and waggons as Mr B shall furnish without charge for them or further Horses and Drivers for the purpose of hauling such mounds and banks of earth as shall be removed by carts and waggons for the purpose of levelling and filling up Ditches and other [?] on the farm also shall have gratis such turfs as may be cut or [?] on my part of [?] [?] of turfing any sorts of any field that may be selected by Dr B the turf to be cut and laid down at the cost of Dr B except the hauling of the same.