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Suburbs. Customs and Orders.
The Scedules, containing the free Customs, Orders, Immunities Discharges,
Benefits,
and Privileges of the Manours of Stepney, alias Stebunhith and Hackney, in the
County
of Middlesex: Agreed unto, approved, allowed and ratified, as well by the Right
Honourable, Thomas Lord Wentworth, Lord of the said Manours; as also by his
Lordships Copyhold or Customary Tenants, or reputed Copyhold, or Customary
Tenants of the said Manours, or of either of them, named Parties to the said
Indenture,
whereunto those Scedules are annexed. By which, all and every the same
Copyholders, or Customary Tenants, their, and every of their Heirs and Assigns,
are to
hold, use, and enjoy, inherit, alien, demise, or dispose all and every, or any
of the said
Lands, Messuages, Tenements, Cottages, and Hereditaments, which they, every, or
any of them respectively do hold, claim, or enjoy, by Force, or Pretext of any
Grant
heretofore made by the Copy of Court Roll of the said Manours, or either of
them, the
Day of the Date of the said Indentures: That is to say, the twentieth Day of
June, in the
Years of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord JAMES, by the Grace of God of England,
France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, &c. the fifteenth, and of
Scotland the
Fiftieth.
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These Copyholds are of Inheritance, held of the Lord by the Rod, according to
the
Custom.
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IMprimis, By the Customs of the said Manours, and either
of them, all the Copyhold Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, which the
particular
Persons (named Parties to the Indentures, whereunto these Scedules are annexed)
do
hold or enjoy, and (time whereof the contrary hath not been within the Memory of
Man)
have been Copyhold and customary Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments of
Inheritance, demised and demiseable by Copy of Court Roll of the Manours
aforesaid,
or one of them respectively, according to the Customs of the Manour whereof the
same
are holden: And all Copies of Court Rolls of the same Manours, and either of
them, by
all the time aforesaid, for the same Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, have
boen
made, and ought to be made, to hold of the Lord by the Rod, according to the
Custom
of the Manour whereof the same is holden, by the Rents and Services therefore
due and
accustomed. And all the said Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments have been
passed,
and are to pass and go from such Persons; as (according to the Contents of these
Scedules) have Power, and are enabled to make Surrenders to any other Person or
Persons by Way of Surrender, to be made to the Hands of the Lord, by the
Acceptance
of the Steward of the Manour, or his Deputy for the time being, in Court or out
of
Court; or by the Acceptance of the Reeve of the Manour, whereof the same are
holden,
or by his Deputy within the same Manour, or elsewhere, in Presence of six
customary
Tenants; or by any Headborough of some Township or Hamlet within that Manour, in
Presence of six customary Tenants, in or out of the same Manours. Which
Surrender
or Surrenders have been, and shall, and may be to the Use of any Person or
Persons,
and their Heirs for ever in Fee-tail, or for Life or Lives, with Remainders or
without
Remainders, as Lands may be assured by the Course of the common Laws of this
Realm, or else to the Use of the last Will and Testament of the Surrenderers, or
of any
other Persons, according to the Intent and Limitation of such last Will and
Testament.
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How Surrenders are to made.
See further in the nineteenth Article.
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Quit-Rents are to be paid Yearly at Michaelmas.
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ITem, The Rents of all the Tenants, both Freeholders and
Copyholders, which hold any Messuages, Cottages, Lands, Tenements, or
Hereditaments of the said Manours, or of either of them, are yearly payable only
at the
Feast of St. Michael the Arch-Angel, to the Lord and his Heirs; the same to be
collected
by the Reeves of the said Manours (severally and respectively to be yearly
chosen, as
hereafter is expressed) or their Deputies. And all and every the said customary
Copyhold Tenants to pay the several Yearly Rents, now Yearly due and payable for
their several Copyholds. And if any of the said Copyholds, for which any intire
Quit-
Rent is now paid, shall hereafter come into several Hands, the Rent thereof
shall then
be apportioned by the Homage, at the Court of the Manour whereof the same are
holden; and so much only as by the Homage shall be appointed to be paid (pro
rata)
shall be paid to the Lord for the time being.
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An intire Quit-Rent come into several Hands shall be apportioned.
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At what Courts Tenants are bound to appear.
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ITem, All and every Copyhold Tenant of the said
Manours, or either of them, which now be, or hereafter for the Time being shall
be,
ought to appear Yearly at two several general Courts holden for the Manour,
whereof
his Lands or Tenements are holden, upon Warning, as hereafter followeth. And
also so
many of them, at all other set or appointed Courts, set, appointed, and kept for
the said
Manour whereof their Lands are holden, under the Number of eighteen, as shall be
(for
that Purpose) especially warned thereunto by the Reeve, or his sufficient Deputy
for the
time being. And the said Tenants shall do their Suits and Services according to
their
Tenures; except they be essoined, licensed, or have some other lawful Excuse,
upon the
Pain hereafter following. Which two general Courts have been commonly kept (and
are
to be kept Yearly) the one of them on Tuesday, the ninth Day after Easter Day;
and the
other, about the Feast of St. Andrew the Apostle, upon reasonable Warning: that
is to
say, in the Churches and Chapels within
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The two general Courts yearly held.
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