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Manours of Stepney and Hackney. 88

Manours of Stepney and Hackney.

That the said Copyhold Tenants, their Heirs and Assigns respectively, shall and may for ever hereafter, without any Lett, Impediment, Interruption, Denial, or Contradiction of his Lordship, his Heirs or Assigns, or any claiming under the said Lord Henry Wentworth, deceased, not only during the time they shall be Copyholders, but also afterwards, when they have obtained the Freehold and Inheritance of their several and respective Copyholds; peaceably hold and enjoy such and the the like Commons of Pasture, and in such manner, in all the Commons, Wastes and commonnable Places of the said Manours, as they or any of them heretofore have had, used, held, taken, or enjoyed, or might lawfully haven taken or enjoyed. Nevertheless, it is agreed, That neither the said Indenture and Scedules, nor any Covenant therein contained, shall in any wise extend or enure to the Benefit or Advantage of any other Copyhold Tenants of the said Manours, other than the Copyhold Tenants named Parties to the said Indentures, their Heirs and Assigns, and that for such and the same Lands, Tenements, Cottages, and Hereditaments, with the Appurtenances only, as they or any of them now hold, or claim to hold, by Copy of Court-Roll of the said Manours, or one of them, as by the said Indenture (whereunto relation be had) more plainly and at large appeareth.

For enjoying the Common.

The Tenants not compounding, are excepted from all Benefit hereby.

Memorandum, That the said Indenture of the twentieth of June, together with a duplicity thereof, were acknowledged by the said Thomas Lord Wentworth, the twenty first Day of July, 1617. before Sir Matthew Carew, Knight, to be enrolled, and is enrolled in the Chancery accordingly. The one part of which Indentures is left in the Custody of the Company of Goldsmiths in the City of London, and the other in the Custody of the Brethren of the Trinity House at Radcliff; In Trust, and to the Use of the said Copyhold Tenants, named Parties to the said Indentures.

The enrolling of the Deed, and where it is left.

The ninth Day of July 1617. in the said fifteenth Year of His Majesty's Reign, the said Thomas Lord Wentworth acknowledged a Statute of the Sum of Twelve Thousand Pounds of lawful Money of England, unto Alexander Prescot and John Gore, Alder- men of London, Thomas Jones Common Sergeant of London, Francis Fulner and George Whitmore, Esquires, and Robert Mildmay, Grocer; In Trust for, and to the Use of the Copyholders named in the Indenture, and thereof is a defeasance by Indenture, dated the same Day, to this effect, viz. That if the said Thomas Lord Wentworth do perform the Covenants and Agreements contained in the aforesaid Indenture of the twentieth of June: Then the same Statute to be void, and that the said Conusees shall deliver up the same Statute to the said Thomas Lord Wentworth, his Heirs, Exectuors, Administrators or Assigns, so soon as the said Act of Parliament shall be procured, according to the intent and true meaning of the said recited Indenture.

A Statute of 12000l. for Performance of Covenants.

The Defeasance.

To this end, the said Statute and Defeasance are left in the Chamber of the City of London: to be kept in such sort, as that the said Conusees may have the same to be delivered according to their Covenant. And the Chamberlain of the said City, hath charged himself with the receipt thereof, by Order of the Court of the Lord Maior and Aldermen 1617. Sir John Leman, being then Maior, and Master Cornelius Fish, Chamberlain.

Where the Statute and Defeasance are kept.

In Trinity Term, in the said fifteenth Year of his Majesty's Reign, to a Bill of Complaint was by the Copyholders, named Parties to the said Indenture of the twentieth of June, exhibited against the said Thomas Lord Wentworth, in his Majesty's High Court of Chancery; whereto the said Thomas Lord Wentworth did appear, and by his Answer confessed the Contents of the said Bill to be true. Whereupon, a perfect Decree (with the free Consent and Agreement of the said Thomas Lord Wentworth, bearing Date the two and twentieth Day of July, in the said fifteenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King James) was obtained. And by the same, the said free Customs, Orders, Immunities, &c. and all and whatsoever contained in the said Indenture of the twentieth of June, and the Scedules unto the same Indenture annexed, are for ever established and confirmed. The said Decree is likewise there enrolled. The true Copy of the said Scedules followeth.

The Proceedings in the Chancery.

The Decree.

The

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