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Suburbs North East.
CHAP. V.
An Abstract, or brief Relation of the two
Manours or Lordships of Stebunhith, alias
Stepney, and Hackney, Suburbs North East in the County of Middlesex. With the free
Customs, Benefits, and Privileges to them belonging; and how they are holden by
the
Copyhold Tenants, of the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Wentworth. With some
other especial and remarkable Notes, both of reverend Antiquity, and modern
Memory.
Concerning the Indenture of Covenants &c.
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WHereas (of late) Differences have arisen between the
Right Honourable Thomas Lord Wentworth, Lord of the Manours of Stepney and
Hackney, and his Lordship's Copyhold Tenants of the said Manours, for and
concerning some of the Customs, Benefits, and Privileges of the said Tenants; It
hath
now pleased the said Thomas Lord Wentworth, in consideration of Three Thousand
Pounds of lawful Money of England, in the thirtieth Year of the Reign of our
late
Sovereign Lady Queen Elizabeth, by the Copholders of the said Manours, unto the
Right Honourable Henry Lord Wentworth (his Lordship's Father) then satisfied and
paid: As also of other Three Thousand and Five Hundred Pounds more, to him the
said
Thomas Lord Wontworth now paid, by Indenture bearing date the twentieth Day of
June, in the fifteenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of
England,
France and Ireland, and of Scotland the Fiftieth, made between him the said
Thomas
Lord Wentworth, Lord of the said Manours on the one part, and Sir John Jolles,
Kt.
and Alderman of London, and divers other of the Copyhold Tenants of the said
Manours (whose Names are particularly in the said Indenture recited) on the
other part:
For the appeasing and final End of the said Differences, and for prevention of
the like,
and all other which (in time to come) might happen, arise or grow, betwixt the
said
Lord, his Heirs or Assigns, Lords of the said Manours, and the said Copyhold
Tenants, their Heirs or Assigns, do covenant, grant, conclude, and fully agree
to the
effect following: that is to say,
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The Cause of the now Compounding.
A. M.
The Consideration given for it.
30 Eliz.
15 Jacob.
The Deed of Covenants.
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Imprimis, That the said Thomas Lord Wentworth is, and until a perfect Act of
Parliament shall be had and made, (whereby all the Liberties, Privileges,
Benefits,
Customs, Immunities, Discharges, Additions, Alterations, Enlargements, Matters
and
Things, in the Scedules to the said Indenture annexed, mentioned, shall be for
ever
confirmed) shall be and continue seized of a good, absolute and indefeazable
Estate of
Inheritance in Fee-simple to him and his Heirs for ever in possession of, and in
the said
Manours, and either of them, and of the Copyhold Lands, Tenements and
Hereditaments of the said Copyhold Tenants beforementioned, Parties to the said
Indenture. And that he now hath, and then shall have, full Power and lawful
Authority,
to ratify, confirm, establish, and make good, all and singular the Covenants,
Articles,
Alterations, Enlargements, free Customs, Immunities, Discharges and Agreements
contained in the said Indenture and Scedules, or either of them, to the said
Copyhold
Tenants respectively, and to their several and respective Heirs and Assigns, of
and in
the several respective Messuages, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, whereof
they
are seized of any Estate by Copy or Court-Roll.
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The Lord Thomas is seized in Fee;
And hath Power to confirm the following Articles.
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And that the said Thomas Lord Wentworth, his Heirs, Assigns, and all other Lords
of
the said Ma-
nours, shall for ever hereafter observe, perform, fulfil, allow, ratify, make
good and
keep all the said Articles, certainty of Fines, Usages, Customs, Privileges,
Benefits,
Immunnities, Discharges, Compositions and Agreements in the said Indenture and
Scedules contained: And shall not at any time hereafter levy, take, require, or
demand
any other Fines, Suits, Customs, Works or Services, or in any other Manner, than
in
the said Scedules are specified: And the Rents which for the said Copyhold
Tenements,
by the Space of two Years now last past, have been yielded and paid by the
Copyhold
Tenants thereof. And also that the said Tenants, their Heirs and Assigns, shall
for ever
hereafter peaceably and quietly have, hold, maintain, and enjoy their several
and
respective Copyholds, with their Appurtenances, according to the several Grants
thereof to them made; and under the several Rents for the same respectively, now
due
and payable according to the true Meaning of the said Indenture and Scedules,
without
Let, Suit, or Hindrance, Interruption, Alteration, Question, or Contradiction
whatsoever of him the said Lord Wentworth, his Heirs or Assigns, or under any
other
claiming any Estate, Right, Title, Use, Interest, Office, Profit, Charge, or
Demand,
under his Lordship, his Heirs or Assigns, or under the said Henry Lord Wentworth
deceased.
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That these Articles for ever be observed.
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And that the said Thomas Lord Wentworth, his Heirs or Assigns hath not, nor
hereafter
shall grant or convey, severed from the Manour thereof, the same is now holden;
any of
the Messuages, Cottages, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments of the said
Copyholders, for any other Estate or Term, other than by Copy of Court Roll,
according to the Custom of the said Manours, except the Freehold to be severed,
at the
Desire of such Person, as then shall be Copyholder thereof respectively: And
that the
Certainty of Fines, free Customs, Immunities, Liberties, Priviledges, Articles,
Discharges, and Agreements in the said Scedules contained, for and concerning
the
several Messuages, Cottages, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, whereof the
said
Parties to the said Indenture are Copyholders, or reputed Copyholders; shall
(for ever)
be, and be had, used, accounted, adjudged, taken and enjoyed, as the true
Customs,
Usages, Priviledges, Immunities, Discharges, and Liberties, of and within the
said
Manours, and either of them, not to be violated, altered, changed, or denied by
the Lord
or Lords of the said Manours, or either of them now or hereafter, at any Time or
Times
in any wise being.
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That hereafter none of these Lands shall be severed from the Manour.
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Item, That for the better ratifying, establishing, confirming, strengthening,
perfecting,
and making good of all and singular the said Articles, Covenants, Agreements,
certainty
of Fines, Usages, Customs, Enlargements, and Alterations of Usages and Customs,
Compositions, Liberties, Privileges, Freedoms, Immunities, Discharges, Matters
and
Things in the said Indenture and Scedules contained, and for the setting forth
of what
Estate
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That a Decree shall be had in the Chancery, to confirm the now Agreements.
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