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An Abstract of the title to the lands in Wapping-Marsh and other places near adjoyning, belonging to the mannor of Stepney or Stebunheath called Ewell, alias Tilehouse.
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1677
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Wing A144; ESTC R43
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to pay to the Queen Seven Thousand Nine Hundred Twenty Eight Pounds Seven Shillings and Eleaven Pence half peny out of his own Estate in Stepney and particularly therein are exprest most of the said Lands mentioned in the said Extent 4. Eliz. and particularly all the Lands now in Dispute And he gave Bond to perform Covenants which Bond being forfeited was extended the 31 of January 19. Eliz. And afterwards the Queen the Sixth of May demised the same to Alice Stepkin so long as it should remain in the Queens Hands at One Hundred Thirty Nine Pounds Eight Shillings per Annum The Rents reserved to the Queen were paid near Thirty Years together King James the First the 7th of July 1609 released to John Stepkin and his Heirs for ever all the Lands extended And in this Patent Bazill Iohnson the demandant in the said Recovery 3d of Eliz. is named and under this John Stepkin the Lady Ivie Claimes as Heir to John Stepkin her Father Son of the aforesaid John Stepkin Arthur Hill Aged 84 Years and Christopher Green Aged 80 Years deposed the 10 th of October 1634. That the Breach of Water was in a great Dock called Stepkins Dock and the Ancestors of Stepkins owners of the Marsh did maintain the same One Richard Glover being in possession of certain Lands by vertue of a long Lease from Stepkins the Lady Ivies Ancestor sold the same to Sir Anthony Bateman as Copyhold in 1647. tho' the Father of this Richard the 16 th of May the Year before sold the same as Freehold to one Warren Both these Deeds are enroll'd The Lady Ivie hath had Verdicts for her Title in Four Tryals at Barr. First In the Exchequer before Lord Chief Baron Turner Second In the Kings Bench before L. Chief Justice Hales Third In the Kings Bench before L. Chief Justice Rainsford Fourth In the Exchequer before L. Chief Baron Mountague During the whole time of the Tryals aforesaid there was a Conspiracy to procure Witnesses to swear the Lady Ivie's Deeds and some other of her Evidences Forged Thomas Duffet then Husband to the now Witness against the Lady Ivie confessed the Conspiracy upon which the Court of Kings Bench ordered an Information to be exhibited against the Attorney of her Adversaries and one Ireton for subornation of Perjury The Attorney was convicted before the Lord Chief Justice Rainsford The proof against him was That he entred into Articles to give five hundred Pounds to any Person that should swear some particular Deeds and Evidences of the Lady Ivies forged and to procure the Kings pardon for the Person that should Swear it The Trunck together with the Articles and three hundred and fifty Pounds part of the said five hundred Pound was found in a Gentlemans Chamber in the Temple and by a Tipstaff sent by the Lord Chief Justice brought into Court The Lady Ivie is desirous to give this farther satisfaction to all Persons who are any wayes concern'd with Her that if it shall please God she should not live to end her Troubles which she hopes will not be in her Adversaries Power to delay much longer she has left her Estate in that Posture that every one will be paid what is their Due 27 Hen. 8. 30 Hen. 8. 36 Hen. 8. 5 Edw. 6. Feb. 16.6 Ed. 6. 1 Q. Mary In East ' Term Ann. Supradict ' 30 Hen. 8. * Note this House Lands are the same hereafter mentioned in the Extent 4 Eliz. 36 Heb. 8. 1 Edw. 6. 3 Edw. 6. 32 Hen. 8. 35 Hen. 8. Chap. 9th 35 Hen. 8. 3. Eliz. * This Bazil Iohnson is the same person hereafter named in the Release 7 Jacobi 4. Eliz. 15. Eliz. 19. Eliz. 7. Jac. 1. 10 Car. 1. Morris versus Johnson Hillary 1673. Lynch versus Ireton Mich. Term. 1675. Bayly versus Hammond Mich. Term 1676. Martin versus Whichcott Mich. Tr. 1679. The King against Johnson and Ireton Hillary 1677.
AN ABSTRACT Of the Title to the Lands in Wapping-Marsh And other Places near Adjoyning belonging to the MANNOR Of Stepney or Stebunheath Called Ewell alias Tilehouse THE Inheritance of the Mannor of Stepney called Ewell alias Tilehouse reaching from St. Catherines to Ratcliff-Town belonged to the Abbot of Graces St. Thomas of Acons and Thomas Windham All which Interests Stepkin the Lady Ivie's Ancestor purchased above one hundred years since Part of those Lands were afterwards Sold by Stepkin part by Grants let out upon long Leases reserving Pepper-cornes or some such inconsiderable Rents and part in Possession together with the Reversions of those Leases descended to the Lady Ivie The Leases lately generally expired the Lady Ivie thereupon claimed and endeavoured to recover the Reversions as her proper Right but met with these difficulties The difficulties of discovering the Antient Boundaries occasioned by the Buildings the alteration of Names the changing Water-courses the adjoyning to and mixture with some Ancient Purchasers under the same Title and Ancient Lease-holders under some other Titles And the Oppositions of divers men of potent Interest and Influence All which notwithstanding she overcame and made out her Title by manifest Records at several Tryals There have been some Aspersions lately cast upon the Lady Ivie's Title and by Consequence upon the Title of the Purchasers and certain Mortgagees All which Titles spring from one and the same Root and have one and the same Original None of which Aspersions tho' most notoriously false as will in due time appear affect the Records by which the Title hath been or may be hereafter fully made out The Lady Ivie therereupon in honour to her Ancestors and Family in Justice and Respect to the several Purchasers and Mortgagees and the particular satisfaction of her own Conscience hath thought good to print the several Records by which their respective Titles are made out ABout one hundred and thirty Acres of this Mannor were drowned about the 25th year of King Henry the 8 th reaching from St. Catherines on the West to Ratcliff-Town on the East It was drained by one Vanderdelff who by agreement of the Proprietors was to have one Moiety for his pains which he sold to Richard Hill Thereupon an Act of Parliament was made which Enacted That the said Richard Hill and his Heires should have Vanderdelf's Moiety In which Act the drowned Lands are thus bounded viz. On the highway leading from London to Ratcliff on the North part On the River of Thames on the South part On the Town of Ratcliff on the East part And upon St. Catherines on the West part By a Lease from Henry Moore Abbot of the Monastery of Graces to Thomas Stepkin dated September 17 th it appears That the said Abbot granted that Lease to the said Thomas Stepkin for Ninty-nine Years of a Wharfe called Lewin's Wharfe and a Wharfe called Hermitage Wharfe and several other Lands therein particularly named All lying in the Mannor of Stepney called Ewell By Letters-Patents bearing date 21 st of July the King grants the Inheritance of the said Wharfes c. in the possession of the said Stepkin inter alia to Sir Thomas Pope and Nicholas Bacon and the Heirs of Nicholas Bacon By Deed Inrolled in Chancery bearing date 17 th of November the said Nicholas Bacon conveyed the said Wharfes to Hugh Losse Thomas Pope released to the said Hugh Losse By Indenture bearing date the 5 th December Hugh Losse and Agnes Losse his wife covenant with Machelin Stepkin Anthony Anthony and Humphrey Smith to Levy a Fine of the said Wharfes c. in Easter Term next ensuing to the said Anthony Anthony and Humphrey Smith for the use of the said Machelin Stepkin and John Stepkin her Son and the Heirs of the said John Stepkin for ever A Fine was Levied accordingly By an Instrument bearing date the 20 th of October which is to be found in the Augmentation Office it appears That the Master and Brethren of the house of St. Thomas of Acons being seised in Fee of a House and certain other Lands in Wapping upon dissolution of the said House surrendered the same into the Kings hands And then the said King by his Letters Patents bearing date the 22. of August grants the said House and Lands in Consideration of Eleven hundred Pounds to John Champneys John Allen and Ralph Allen and their Heirs John Champners the Surviving Patentee by Bargain and Sail enrolled and Feofment with Livery and Seizin both bearing date the 4 th of July Conveyed the said House and Lands to Thomas Allen the Younger Son of Ralph Allen and his Heirs Then Thomas Allen by Bargain and Sail bearing date the 16 th of July conveyed the said House and Lands to Richard Hill and his Heirs and on the 6 th of September following made a Feofment with Livery and Seizin of the Premisses to the said Richard Hill 'T is to be noted That the said Richard Hill did then enter into a Statute of Three Hundred Pound to Anthony Vivald and Henry Salvago And the drowned Lands being not divided according to the direction of the aforesaid Statute made in the 27th Hen. 8. It was Enacted That a Division should be made by All-Saints day next ensuing and a Division was accordingly made In Hillary Term Thomas Windham and his Wife suffered a Recovery to Thomas Stepkin and Machelin his Wife of the Mannor of Ewell alias Tilehouse and Two Hundred Acres of Land One Hundred Acres of Meadow One Hundred Acres of Pasture Three Acres of Wood and Ten Shillings Rent in the Parish of St. Mary Matfellon without Aldgate and Stebunheath alias Stepney Seventy Six Acres of which being Drowned Lands upon the Division Thirty Eight Acres fell to Richard Hills share In Trinity Term Jasper Hill Son and Heir of Richard Hill by Fine to make a Tenant to the Precipe for a Common Recovery and by a Common Recovery thereupon suffered in which one Bazill Iohnson was demandant and by Deed bearing date the 12 of May 4. Eliz. to lead the uses of the said Common Recovery conveyed to the said Machelin Stepkin and John Stepkin and the Heirs of the said John for ever among other things Twenty Acres of Land and One Hundred Acres of Fresh Marsh c. Lying in the Parish-Towns and Fields of White-chappel Stebunheath and Wapping On the 17 of January Benedict Spinola Administrator to the aforesaid Anthony Vivald who survived the said Henry Salvago Conizees of the aforesaid Statute acknowledged to them by the said Richard Hill 3 Decemb. 32 Hen. 8. Extended inter alia One Hundred and Thirteen Acres of Land Arable Meadow and Pasture Besides a House called Wapping-House with Orchards Gardens and Mill-house and a Wharf in the Tenure of Robert Cheney lying in Wapping aforesaid which Extent Stepkin purchased in John Stepkin 14. of June 1573 as surety for William Patent covenanted