shall or should accomplish his full age of one and twentie yeeres or within fiue yeeres then next after he shal or should accomplish his full age of one and twentie yeeres And by the person of non sanae memoriae within fiue yeeres next after he shall recouer and become of Sanae memoriae and by the heire of such person of non sanae memoriae within fiue yeeres next after the death of his said Auncestor or before And by the said person that shall be so out of the Realme or his heires within fiue yeeres after he shall returne or if hee shall not returne by his heires within fiue yeeres after his death and by the said person or persons in prison within one whole yeere next after his 11 No dower for woemen â—or Courtesie of England for men or their enlargement from such imprisonment Item In the said Mannors or either of them women ought not to haue Dowers of any customary lands or tenements within the Mannors aforesaid nor in any of them nor men to haue any estate as Tennants by the curtesie of England Item If any shal be seized of any customarie 12 Estates of inheritance shall discend according to Gauelkynde lands or tenements holden of the said Mannors or of either of them of an estate of Inheritance and shall haue two sonnes or three sonnes or more or hauing no sonnes shal haue diuers daughters or hauing neither sonnes nor daughters shal haue diuers Collatterall heires in one neerenesse of bloud or that are to make their resort from those that were of the same neerenesse of bloud to the Tenant dying They shall be all co-heires to their said Father Mother or other Auncestor touching the said customary lands and tenements according to the custome of Gauelkinde Item If any man or woman die seized as aforesaid 13 Touching discents where the tennant left issue of any customarie lands or tenements of any estate of Inheritance holden of the said Mannors or of any of them and shall haue issue two or three sonnes or more whereof one or two or more of them shall be married and haue issue in the life of their Father or Mother and shall die before his or their said Father or Mother or hauing no sons shall haue diuers daughters whereof one or more shall be married and haue issue and dye in the life of the Father or Mother That then the said issue shall inherite and be co-heire with the said sonne or sonnes daughter or daughters that shall suruiue his her or their said Father or Mother that so shall die seized as is aforesaid whether the said issue be male or female according to the custome of Gauelkinde Item If any person or persons die seized as aforesaid 14 How lands shal discend to those of the whole blood where the tennant left no issue and shall leaue behinde him neither sonne nor daughter then the next of his or their kinne being of whole bloud shal be heire or heires to the said persoÌ„ or persons so dying seised That is to say his her or their brother or brothers brother or brothers children or childrens children according to the custome of Gauelkinde and so forth as long as any of that issue shall be on liue being of the whole bloud and in default of such issue the sisters and sisters children according to the custome of Gauelkinde and so forth so long as any issue shal be on liue and of the whole bloud and for lack of such issue the Vncles and their issues being of the whole bloud so long as any issue shal be liuing And in default of such issue the Aunts and their children so long as any shal be liuing of the whole bloud and for lacke of such issue the next of kinne of the whole bloud according to the custome of Gauelkinde Item If any person so dying seised as aforesaid 15 Males et Females of one venter cannot ioyne to be coheires without issue of his body and hauing diuers brothers of the whole bloud whereof the one or some of them shall haue beene married and shall haue issue and after issue had shall die before the said brother dying seised as aforesaid That then the issues of the said brother or brothers so dying before him that dyed seized as aforesaid shall ioyne and be co heire with the brother or brothers that suruiueth the brother that so dyed seised as aforesaid whether the said issue be males or females But males and females of one Venter cannot ioyne to be co-heires together So that the course of discents is to bee obserued by the said custome according to the custome and nature of lands in Gauelkinde Item Likewise shall the issue of the daughter 16 Touching discents that shall die in the life of the Father or Mother be co-heire with the Aunt that liueth being of the whole bloud Item Likewise shal the Vncles and the Vncles 17 Discenâ—s brothers children being of the whole bloud be coheires together as aforesaid Item Likewise shall the Aunts and the Aunts 18 Discents sisters children ioyne and bee co-heires as aforesaid and so forth of all further degrees of all Collaterall heires being of the whole bloud which may conuey themselues to bee any Cozens and heires of the whole bloud to any person or persons dying seized of any of the aforesaid customarie lands or tenements according to the custome of Gauelkynde Item By the custome of the said seuerall Mannors 19 How Copyholders of inheritance may Surrender euery copyholder of Inheritance in fee-simple may Surrender his said copyhold lands and tenements or any part or parcell thereof vnto the Lord to the vse of any person or persons and to his and their heires for euer or to his or their heires of his or their bodies or any otherwise in See also in the first article in the 20 21 c articles taile or for life or liues or yeeres or to any person or persons and his or their heires To the intent the said Copyhold Tennant may declare his last Will and Testament vpon the same Lands and Tenements or to any other vse or vses vnlesse it be to any corporation or corporations or bodies pollitique or corporate and euery copyholder in taile or for life liues or yeeres of either of the said Mannors may in like manner by the customes of the said Mannors and of either of them Surrender their Copyhold lands tenements or hereditaments or any part thereof according to the nature of their estates so the same Surrender be made according to the custome concerning Surrenders as afore in these presents is specified or hereafter ensueth And all the same persons to whose vse euery Surrender shal be made are to haue their copies made to hold of the Lord by the Rod according to the custome of the Mannor whereof they beene holden by the Rents and seruices therefore due and accustomed Vpon euery of which Surrenders the Fine and
That if any Tennant for terme of life or liues onely or for terme of yeeres of customarie Lands shall make any waste Then hee shal be fined by the Homage the third part of which fine shal be to the Lord and the other two parts shall come to him in the Reuertion or Remainder of the said copyhold Item The Lord for none payment of amerciaments 53 For non payment of amerciameâ—ts the Lord may distraine but not seise may distraine his said Tennants parties to these presents and auow for the same as for Rents But hee cannot seize any of his or their Lands or Tenements parties to these presents for non payment thereof vntill he be paid Item Vpon the admission of any co-heires ioint Tennants or Tennants in common if they cannot 54 How partition is to be made betweene co-heires ioynt tennants or tennants in common agree to occupie their Lands and Tenements together or to make partition among themselues then hee or they that bee grieued may by the custome of either of the said Mannors haue a precept from the Steward directed to seuen customarie Tennants or more of the said Mannors within which the said Lands and tenements doe lye and they shall make partition thereof and the same returne to the Steward of the said Mannors againe to be inrolled in the Court Rolls of the said Mannors whereof the said Lands or Tenements beholden Whervpon the said heires shal go to the Steward of the said Mannor within which the said lands or tenements shall lye And then elect choose their parts in forme following That is to say the yongest sonne to choose first then he that is next to the yongest to chuse next and so after that rate vnto the eldest how many soeuer which eldest shal chuse last And likewise the same order is to be obserued amongst daughters if there be no sonnes and amongst all other degrees of heires touching the customarie Lands and Tenements holden of the said Mannors or either of them And vpon euery such partition they shall pay for a fine to the Lord two shillings and sixe pence or lesse at the discretion of the Steward according to the quantitie of the Lands or Tenements so parted betweene tennants in common and ioynt tenants for the like fine the said deuision to bee by the said Tenants without election of the parties themselues but by casting of lots if they cannot otherwise agree Item If any customarie or free Tenants cattell 55 These copyholders shall pay but one penny for poundage or the cattell of their Farmers bee brought to the Lords pound The said Tenant or his Farmer shall pay for all his cattell if they bee a hundred heads or vpwards or vnder for the poundage thereof but one penny and he that is no Tenant shall pay for euery distresse of cattell so pounded foure pence 56 Cattell impounded to be deliuered by two copyholders Item If any cattell bee impounded within the Lords pound by any person or persons being a customarie Tenant or Tennants of the said Mannors or of either of them for any trespasse committed or done within the said Mannors or in either of them vpon their Copyholds that all such Cattell being so impounded may by two of the said customarie Tenants of such of the said Mannors or of either of them wherein the said trespasse shall bee committed which will answere for such Damages and costs as shal be recouered in the said Court against the owners of the same Cattell for the said trespasse be deliuered out of the said pound vnto the owner of the said Cattell by the custome of the same Mannors and of either of them Item No customarie Tenant shall sue vexe or 57 No suâ—tes for title of copy-holds out of the Lords court withouâ— licence trouble any other customary Tenant for any Title of lands or tenements lying and being within the said Mannors or in either of them being copy-hold lands or tenements of the said Mannors or of either of them out of the Lords Court without the speciall licence first had and obtained of the Lord of the said Mannors or of either of them or of his Steward for the time being If any person doe the contrarie hee shall haue his Lands or Tenements seized into the Lords hands vntill hee pay a fine to the Lord for the same offence viz. such fine as shal be ceassed by the Homage at the next generall Court of the said Mannor or Mannors Item That no customarie Tenants of the said 58 Cattell offending shal be driueÌ„ to the Lords pound Mannors or of either of them for any offence to be done by any mans cattel within the said Mannors or in either of them shall driue the same cattell to any forraine pounds but to the Lords pound being within the said Mannors or in either of them if any man doe the contrarie to bee amerced at the next generall Court by the Homage So alwayes as there be asufficient pound of the Lords there Item That no tenant or any other person shall 59 How stakes markes and mears between tennant tennant ought to be set set any stake marke or meare betweene tennant and tennant or betweene tenant and any other person that lyeth next vnto him without the parties doe therevnto agree vnlesse an order bee appointed by the Homage or the greatest part of them that it may be first viewed by twelue Tennants of the said Mannors or of either of them where the stake or meare is to be set and there to set the stake or marke indifferently betweene both the said parties and so to continue it vpon paine of amerciament by the Homage 60 Driuers of commons when to be chosen Item The Homage doe and shall yeerely vse at the next generall Court holden the Tuesday the ninth day next after Easter day to Elect and chuse out of the Hamblets within euery of the said Mannors certaine customary tennants to bee driuers and viewers of the wasts and commons of the said Mannors and of either of them for one whole yeere which tenants so elected haue authoritie by the said custome to driue the commons at any time when they finde it surcharged and to impound the cattell by them so taken no other to driue the said common then the persons so chosen as aforesaid Item If by their driuing the surcharging cannot be remedied then they ought to inform the homage 61 How surcharging the common is to be remedied thereof at the next Court that they may amerce the offenders whether the offenders be tenants or no tenants And also to put a paine or an a merciament vpon their heads that they shall not likewise offend Item If the said driuers receiue by the said poundages 62 The driuers shall accompt to the homage and more money then they spend in their trauell the rest shal be imployed to the scowring of the common Sewers which be vpon the said wast
THE FREE CVSTOMES BENEFITS AND PRIVILEDGES OF THE COPYHOLD TENNANTS OF THE MANNORS OF STEPNY AND HACKNY IN THE Countie of MIDDLESEX within this Composition BEFORE WHICH IS PREFIXED AN ABSTRACT OR BRIEFE RELATION OF THE ASSVRANCE GIVEN BY THE Right Honorable THOMAS Lord WENTWORTH Lord of both the said Mannors vnto his Lordships said Tennants within this Composition for the ratifying and perpetuall establishing of the same Whereunto two Tables Alphabeticall are fitted the one containing the names of the said Copyhold Tenants now hauing compounded the other with the marginall notes in the booke serueth for the ready finding of any note worthy matter herein contamed At London printed by William Iones 1617. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE THOMAS LORD WENTWORTH Lord of the Mannors of STEPNY and HACKNY in the County of MIDDLESEX TO whom Right Honorable ought we more iustly to dedicate this Collection of our Customes and Priuiledges then vnto your good Lordship the noble Patron thereof The Clouds of Differences are now ouerblowne euerlastingly may the bright Sun-shine of Peace beevpon these Mannors That their Customes may be as famous to the Right Honourable Family of the Wentworths and sought for to be Presidents to others as were Solons lawes which the Senate of Rome sent Deputies to fetch very neere foure hundred yeeres after the same had beene established at Athens thereby to frame their twelue Tables Many happy yeeres Right Honorable accompany your Lordships life vntill eternall Glory shall make it perpetually blessed Your Honors most deuoted Tenants AN ABSTRACT OF THE INDENTVRE OF COVENANTS WHEREAS of late Differences The cause of the now compounding haue arisen betweene the Right Honorable Thomas Lord Wentworth Lord of the Mannors of Stepny and Hackny and his Lordships Copy-hold Tennants of the said Mannors for and concerning some of the customes benefits and priuiledges of the said Tennants It hath now pleased the said Tho Lo Wentworth in consideration of three thousand pounds of lawfull money of England in the thirtieth yeere of the The consideration giuen for it raigne of our late soueraigne Lady Q. Elizabeth by the Copyholders of the said Mannors Vnto the Right Honorable Henry Lord Wentworth his Lordships Father satisfied and paid As also of three thousand and fiue hundred pounds more to him the said Tho Lo Wentworth The Deede of Couenants now paid by indenture bearing date the 20. day of Iune in the fifteenth yeere of the raigne of our soueraigne Lord King Iames of England France Ireland of Scotland the fiftieth made betweene him the said Tho Lo Wentworth Lord of the said Mannors of the one part And Sr Iohn Iolls Knight diuers others of the Copyhold tenants of the said Mannors whose names are particularly in the said Indenture recited of the other part For the appeasing and finall end of the said differences and for preuention of the like and all other which in time to come might happen arise or grow betwixt the said Lord his heyres or assignes Lords of the said Mannors and the said Copyhold tennants their heires or assignes to couenant grant conclude and fully agree to the effect following that is to say Imprimis That the said Tho Lo Wentworth That the Lord Thomas is seized in Fee is vntill a perfect act of Parliament shal be had and made wherby all the liberties priuiledges benefits customes immunities discharges additions alterations enlargements matters things in the Schedules to the said Indenture annexed mentioned shall be for euer confirmed shall bee and continue seised of a good absolute and indefeazable estate of Inheritance in Fee-simple to him and his heires for euer in possession of and in the said Mannors and either of them and of the Copyhold lands tenements and hereditaments of the said Copyhold tenants before mentioned parties to the said Indenture And that he now hath and then shall And hath power to confirme the following Articles haue full power and lawfull authoritie to ratitifie confirme establish and make good All and singular the couenants articles alterations enlargements free customes immunities discharges and agreements contained in the said Indenture and Schedules or either of them to the said Copyhold tenants respectiuely and to their seuerall and respectiue heires assignes of and in the seuerall and respectiue messuages lands tenements and hereditaments whereof they are seized of any estate by copie of Court Roll. And that the said Tho Lo Wentworth his That these Articles shall for euer be obserued heyres and assignes and all other Lords of the said Mannors shall for euer hereafter obserue performe fulfill allow ratefie make good and keepe all the said Articles certaintie of Fines vsages customes priuiledges benefits immunities discharges compositions and agreements in the said Indenture and Schedules contained And shall not at any time hereafter leauy take require or demand any other fines suites customes workes or seruices or in any other manner then in the said Schedules are specified And the Rents which for the said Copyhold tenements by the space of two yeeres now last past haue beene yeelded and paid by the Copyhold tenants thereof And also that the said tenants their heyres and assignes shall for euer hereafter peaceably and quietly haue hold maintaine and enioy their seuerall and respectiue Copyholds with their appurtenances according to the seueral grants thereof to them made and vnder the seuerall rents for the same respectiuely now due and payable according to the true meaning of the said Indenture and Schedules without any let suit or hinderance interruption alteration question or contradiction whatsoeuer of him the said Lo Wentworth his heyres or assignes or any other claiming any estate right title vse interest office profit charge or demaund vnder his Lordship his heyres or assignes or vnder the said Henry Lo Wentworth deceased And that the said Tho Lo Wentworth his heyres or That hereafter none of these lands shall be seuered from the Mannor See Aâ—ricle 68. assignes hath not nor hereafter shall grant or conuey seuered from the Mannor whereof the same is now holden any of the messuages cottages lands tenements or hereditaments of the said Copyholders for any other estate or terme other then by copie of Court Roll according to the custome of the said Mannors except the free-hold to be seuered at the desire of such person as then shall be Copyholder thereof respectiuely And that the certainty of Fines free customes immunities liberties priuiledges articles discharges and agreements in the said Schedules contained for and concerning the seuerall messuages cottages lands tenements and hereditaments whereof the said parties to the said Indenture are Copyholders or reputed Copyholders shall for euer be and be had vsed accompted adiudged taken and enioyed as the true customes vsuages priuiledges immunities discharges and liberties of and within the said Mannors and either of them not to be violated altered changed or denied by the Lord or Lords of the said Mannors or either of them now or
hereafter at any time or times in any wise being Item That for the better ratifyings establishing That a Decree shal be had in Chauncery to confirme the now agremeÌ„ts confirming strengthning perfecting and making good of all and singuler the said articles couenants agreements certaintie of fines vsuages customes inlargements and alterations of vsuages and customes compositions liberties priuiledges freedomes immunities discharges matters and things in the said Indenture and Schedules contained and for the setting forth of what estate the said Tho Lo Wentworth is now and then shall be seised of the said Mannors and premisses vpon a bill of complaint against his Lordship in his Maiesties high Court of Chancerie to bee exhibited his Lordship will appeare and make such answere and further such proceedings that therevpon a perfect decree with the free consent and agreement of his Lordship may bee had and there enrolled against his Lordship his heires and assignes By which the said Articles couenants agreements certainty of fines vsuages and customes and alterations of vsuages and customes and all the compositions liberties priuiledges freedomes immunities discharges matters and things in the said Indenture and Schedules or any of them contained shall be decreed ratified established made good and be put in vre vsed enioyed for euer Item That hee the said Thomas Lo Wentworth his heires and assignes at his and their That an act of Parliameâ—t shall be procured to confirme the same for euer owne proper costs and charges will procure at the first Session of the next Parliament of our Soueraigne Lord the Kings Maiestie his heires or successors one statute or act of Parliament By force whereof the said Articles couenants agreements certaintie of fines vsuages customes enlargement and alterations of vsuages customes compositions liberties priuiledges benefits freedomes immunities discharges matters and things in the said Indenture and Schedules or either of them expressed shall be established ratified enacted and confirmed to be and to continue for euer of force and to be put in vre and vsed for euer hereafter in such state manner and forme qualitie condition and degree as the same are in the said Indenture or Schedules or any of them expressed for and concerning the lands tenements and The Tennants must pay twenty pounds towards the charge of iâ— hereditaments whereof they now are copy-holders or reputed copyholders Towards the charges of the procuring of which said Act of Parliament the said tenants are to pay vnto the said Tho Lo Wentworth his heires or executors within one month next after the obtaining passing therof the somme of 20. pounds Item That he the said Tho Lo Wentworth For better assuranc within fiue yeares his heires and assignes at any time within fiue yeeres next ensuing the date of the said Indenture before such Act of Parliament as aforesaid had and obtained at the costs in the law of the said Copyhold tenants or some of them vpon request made vnâ—o him the said Tho Lo Wentworth his heires or assignes by the said Sir Iohn Iolles William Gough Edmund Barber Iohn Eglesfield Isack Cotton Thomas Best Richard Hoskins George Saris Henry Dethick Iohn Howland Thomas Yardley Iohn Lowden Richard Cheyny Gresham Hoogan William Palmer Nicholas Dickens Nicholas Diggins Peter Sumner Iohn Bennet Richard Edwards Michael Bonner and Nicholas Hollam or any ten of them or any ten of the heires or assignes of them shall and will make doe acknowledge execute and suffer all and euery such further acts deeds and assurances for better settling assuring and confirming of the vsuages customes benefits liberties priuiledges immunities discharges certaintie of Fines compositions agreements matters and things in the said indenture and Schedules contained as by them or any ten of them or any ten of the heires or assignes of them shall be reasonably deuised aduised and required That leases may be let for 31 yeeres and 4 months without lisence Item That euery one of the said Copihold tennants their heires and assignes shall and may freely hereafter from time to time graunt lease or demise by deede or otherwise without See article 38. licence or copie of Court Roll such or so much of their said lands tenements hereditaments to such person and persons and for such terme and estate not exceeding thirtie one yeeres and foure monethes in possession from the time of the making of any such graunt or demise as to them and euery or any of them respectiuely shal be thought fit or necessarie without any forfeite of estate seizure claime disturbance deniall or impeachment of his Lordship his heires or assignes or any of his or their officers So alwaies that such graunt lease and leases so to be made be at the first or second generall Court for the mannor whereof the lands or tenements so happening to be granted leased or demysed are parcell to bee holden next after the making thereof bee published in open court of that Mannor before the homage there and a remembrance thereof to be required to be made in the Rolles of the said Court for the date terme and quantitie of lands cottages or tenements so granted leased or demised Which remembrance of the said Tho Lo Wentworth couenanteth and granteth for him his heyres and assignes To and with the said Sr Iohn Iolls and the rest of the said Copyhold tenants vpon the tender of a certainty therof in writing to the Steward or deputy Steward of that Mannor for the time then being together with sixe pence in money for the entring thereof shall be in the Court Rolls of that Mannor duely and in conuenient time and without delay enrolled and a note thereof deliuered by the Steward or his deputy to the party so leasing or any for him without any other consideration fee or reward to be giuen or paide for the same Recitall of the Letters Pattens from the King to my Lord concernning the Freehold Item That whereas the said Tho Lo Wentworth by his Highnesse letters pattents vnder the great Seale of England dated the 19. day of Iuly in the thirteenth yeere oâ— his Maiesties raigne of England c. and forty eight of Scotland Hath obtained licence to grant to such of his Maiesties liege people as he shall thinke fit messuages cottages lands tenements and hereditaments parcell or reputed parcell of the said Mannors To hold to them their heires and assignes in free and common Socage respectiuely of his said Mannors of Stepny and Hackny by such and the same rents and seruices and other profits as in the conueyances thereof shall be expressed and not to hold of the King in Capite nor of any of his Maiesties Honors or Mannors in Knights seruice as by the said letters pattents more at large may appeare Now if the said Tho Lo Wentworth shal not at the first If the Act of Parliament be not Procured then the Tennants vpon request shal be made Freeholders Session of the next Parliament procure such an
inheritance held of the Lord by the rod according to the custome and either of them all the Copyhold Lands Tenements Hereditaments which the particular persons named parties to the Indentures whervnto these Schedules are annexed doe hold or enioy are and time whereof the contrarie hath not beene within the memory of man haue beene Copyhold and customarie lands tenements and hereditaments of inheritance demised and demisable by copy of Court Roll of the Mannors aforesaid or one of them respectiuely according to the customes of the Mannor whereof the same are holden and all copies of Court Rolls of the same Mannors and either of them by all the time aforesaid for the same lands tenements and hereditaments haue beene made and ought to be made to hold of the Lord by the Rod according to the custome of the Mannor whereof the same is holden by the rents and seruices therefore due and accustomed And all the said lands tenements and hereditaments haue beene passed and are to passe and goe from such persons as according to the contents of these Schedules haue power and are How Surrenders are to be made See further in the 19 article 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 Mannor or his Deputy for the time being in Court or out of Court or by the acceptance of the Reeue of the Mannor whereof the same are holden or by his Deputy within the same Mannor or elsewhere in presence of sixe customarie Tennants or by any Headborough of some Towneship or Hambler within that Mannor in presence of sixe customarie Tenants in or out of the same Mannors which Surrender or Surrenders haue beene and shall and may be to the vse of any person or persons and their heyres for euer in fee-simple or any person or persons in fee taile or for life or liues with Remainders or without Remainders as lands may be assured by the course of the common lawes of this Realme or else to the vse of the last Will Testament of the Surrenderers or of any other persons according to the intent and limitation of such last Will and Testament Item the rents of all the Tennants both Freeholders 2 Quitrents are to be paid yearly at Michellmas and Copy holders which hold any Messuages Cottages Lands Tenements or Hereditaments of the said Mannors or of either of them are yearely payable only at the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangell to the Lord and his heires the same to be collected by the Reeues of the said Mannors seuerally and respectiuely to be yearely chosen as hereafter is expressed or their Deputies And all and euery the said customarie or Copyhold Tenants to pay the seueral yearely rents now yeerely due and payable for their seuerall Copyholds and if any of the said Copyholds for which any interequit rent is now paâ—d shall hereafter come into seuerall hands the rent thereof An entire quit-rent come into seuerall hands shal be apportioned shall be then apportioned by the homage at the Court of the Mannor whereof the same are holden and so much onely as by the homage shal be appointed to be paid prorata shall be paid to the Lord for the time being Item All and euery Copyhold Tenant of the 3 At what Courts Tennants are bound to appeare said Mannors or either of them which now be or hereafter for the time being shal be ought to appeare yeerely at two generall Courts holden for the Mannor wherof his lands or Tenements are holden vpon warning as hereafter followeth And also so many of them at all other set or appointed Courts set appointed and kept for the said Mannor wherof their lands are holdâ—n vnder the numbâ—r of eighteene as shall be for that purpose especially warned therevnto by the Reeue or his sufficient Deputy for the time being And â—he said Tenants shall there doe their suites and seruices according to their tenures except they be essoined licensed or haue some other lawfull excuse vpon the paine hereafter following which two generall Courts haue beene commonly kept and are to be kept yearely the one of them on Tuesday the ninth day after Easter day and the other about the Feast of Saint Andrew the Apostle vpon reasonable The two generall Courtes yearely held warning That is to say in the Churches and Chappels wâ—thin the said Mannors openly vpon the Sunday seuennight or Sunday fortnight before the day of such Court to be holden Item If any of the Coppyhold or customarie 4 Tennants fâ—iling to appeare and not essoyned or reason able excuse shal be amersed Tennants of the said Mannors or of either of them doe or shal make default of their appearance at any of the said two generall Courts to which their suites shall be due Or if such Copyhold Tenants as shal be especially and lawfully warned to appeare at any of the said set Couâ—ts in forme aforesaid yearely to bee holden doe make default to which the said suiteâ—s or shal be due and warning openly giuen as aforesaid of the day and place of the holding of the same generall Courts and vpon speciall and lawfull warning to be giuen for the said seuerall set or purchased Courts that then they that shall so make default except they be essoyned or haue some other lawfull or reasonable excuse shal be amerced by the Homage of the said Court to be taxed and affered by two afferors of the said Court That is to say by two Tenants of the Homage whereof the Steward of the said Mannors or of either of them for the time being hath alwaies vsed to choose and shall choose one for the Lord and the residue of the homage haue chosen and hereafter shall choose the other Item If any Tenant be summoned to apeare at 5 What the tennants are to be allowed at set Courts any set Court or Courts to bee holden within the said Mannors or in any of them doth appeare vpon the said Sommons he ought and is to haue for his paines foure pence and his dinner or eight pence and no dinner which ought and is by the said custome to bee paid by such person or persons who shall be the cause that any such Tenants doe appeare for his or their matter so it be not any matter or cause that concerneth an enquâ—rie or presentment to be made onely concerning the Lord for the time being his heires or assignes Item The Coppyhold Tennants of the said 6 The like allowance for view parâ—icions and and other summons Mannors and of either of them ought to haue euery of them like allowance vpon euery view by them to be made and vpon euery petition by them to be made or vpon other Sommons to appeare betwixt Tenant and Tenant when they bee appointed thereunto by precept from the Steward of the said Mannors or of either of them for
the being or by his sufficient Deputie Item The homage of the Court of the said 7 How tennants may be righted against encroachments annoyances c. Mannors or of any of them may appoint sixe or seuen Tennants vpon any complaint to them made by any person or persons being Tenants of the said Mannors or of either of them in open Court that hee or they bee wronged by any incroachment or any other annoyance to their Copyhold Tenements which Tenants shal after the said Court view the same encroachment annoyance and impediment or place whereoâ— any such complaint shall be made and therevpon to present or notifie the same by a day to the Steward or to the homage at the next generall court that there may be set a paine or amerciament or both for the same by the Homage at the said next court according to the qualitie of the offence Item The Homage of either of the said Mannors 8 The Homage at euery generall couâ—t is to present deceased tennants are to make presentment at euery generall Court to be holden for the said Mannors or for either of them of all the customarie or copyhold Tenants that they shall know shall bee deceased after the Court then last past at or any time before the said court whose deaths were not then found and presented and that held any copyhold or customarie or reputed copyhold or customarie Lands or Tenements of the said Mannors or of either of them And also as neere as they can present With their lands heires what Lands euery of them dyed seized of and of what estate and when he dyed and who is the next heire or heires to the same person or persons so dying seized and of what age or ages the said heire or heyres shall then bee of as neere as they can Item The Homage likewise ought to present 9 Also they must present the deaths of Free-holders c. the deaths of the Free-holders and when they dyed and who be their next heyre or heyres the ages of their heires which held any Lands or Tenements of the said Mannors or of either of them and the nature of their tenures so neere as they can to the intent the Lord may haue his reliefe which is but the value of one yeeres quitrent of the Tenements holden of the said Mannors or of either of them by Socage tenure Item If the Homage at any of the said Courts 10 What shall be donne if the next heire be not knowne of either of the said Mannors shall not know who is next heyre or heyres to any of the said customarie Tenants so dying seized when they shal make their presentments That then they shall make their presentment so accordingly and then vpon the said presentment at the next generall Court then after the Steward of the said Mannors of either of them or his Deputy for the time being within the said presentment shall so be made shall cause a Proclamation to be made in open court to the intent euery such heyre or heyres may haue knowledge to come and take vp the Lands and Tenements of his or their auncestors and so the Steward or his Deputie shall cause a Proclamation to bee made from generall Court to generall Court vntill three open and publique Proclamations Three Proclamations shal be made in two yeares space for the heire to take knowledge c. be made in full Court at three seuerall generall Courts which generall courts by the said custome are vsed to bee holden commonly one halfe yeere after another or thereabouth So that from the presentment made by the said Homage of the dying seized of the said last Tenant vnto the last proclamation shal be fully two yeres And if there shall come no heyre of the said Lands or Tenements nor any for him or them before the end of the court next after the court whereat the last of the said three Proclamations shal be made to make his or their claime and proue himselfe or themselues to the Homage of the said Court in such sort as they or the greater part of them shall allow of to be the next heyre or heyres of the whole bloud to the said Tenant deceased or to haue title to the Lands and Tenements nor to shew and proue as aforesaid who is or ought to bee next heyre or heyres of the whole bloud to the said Tenant deceased or next heyre or heyres expectant vpon any estate determined Then the Lord of If none appeare the Lord may then sease the land the Mannor whereof the same Land is holden for the time being shall and may after the next court next after the said three Proclamations so to bee made seize the Lands and Tenements which were the said persons so dying seized whose next heyre or heyres or such as shall haue title therevnto cannot be found or shall not come and make his or their claime and proofe as aforesaid and the same Lord then to take the issues and profits And keepe it vntill an heyre doe come thereof to his owne vse vntill such person or persons come that shall proue him or them next heire or heyres to the said person or persons so dying If no heire com wâ—thin three yeeres after the third proclamation the land seized And if none shall come in within three yeeres next after the third and last Proclamation made as aforesaid that shall and can conuey and proue him or them to be next heyre or heyres of the whole bloud or shew or proue who is or ought to be next heyre or heyres or to haue title as next in Remainder or Reuersion as aforesaid shâ—ll escheate to the Lord. That then the said Lands and Tenements bee forfeited or shall escheate vnto the Lord of the said Mannor or Mannors for the time being Except that if the said Lands and Tenements shall or ought immediately to discend remaine reuert or come to any woman Couert or Infant within the age of one and twenty yeeres or to any person or 1 Except woemen couert baron 2 Infants within age 3 Prisoners 4 Persons non sanae memoriae 5 Persons out of the Realme persons being in prison or any person or persons not of Sanae memoriae or that shall not bee within the Realme at the time of the death of the said last tenant dying so seized or at the time of the first second or third Proclamation to be made as aforesaid That then in euery such case the Lord for the time being shall haue but the profits of the said Lands and Tenements vntill such persons or his her or their heire or heires shall come and make their claime So the said claime be made by the said woman or her heires within fiue yeeres Fiue yeares next after the death of her said husband or by her husband and her selfe during the time of her Couerture And by such person being within age or his heires before he
Fines for the same hereafter expressed is by the said custome to be paid and to The fines must be entred into the Coppyes See actâ— 26. be entered into the seueral copies or the margents of them Item By the custome of the said Mannors and Surrenders taken by the headborow or Reeue in presence of 6 tennantes of either of them euery Surrender taken out of the Court by the Headborow or Reeue or his Deputie and in the presence of sixe customarie Tennants of the Mannor of which the said lands or tenements Surrendred shal be parcell witnessing the same surrender of any person or persons of his or their customarie Lands or tenements holden of the said Mannors or of either of them and being of the full age of one and twentie yeeres or vpwards except women couert Baron and such as are not of perfect minde to the vse of any person or persons are and ought to bee as good as if it were taken in open Court by the said Steward of the Mannors or of either of them so that such surrender be by the Homage presented as hereafter followeth Item The Surrender by a woman couert Baron 21 Surren of woman couert baron in extremitie of siknesse being of the age of one and twentie yeeres made together with her husband of the lands tenements or hereditaments whereof she is seized or estated is and shal be a good Surrender of her lands tenements and hereditaments holden of the said Mannors or of either of them the same Surrender being made in her extreamitie of sicknes or likelihood of death by the acceptance of the Reeue of the Mannor whereof the lands and tenements so surrendred are parcell and his Deputie or either of them in the presence of sixe customarie tenants or by the acceptance of the Headborow in the presence of sixe customary Tenants But if any such woman Couert Baron so surrendring doe after that recouer her health and do not at the next generall Court then following ratifie and confirme the fame before the Steward or his Deputie in the presence of the Homage Then the same Surrender is and shal be voide and all other Surrenders made by any woman couert Baron All othâ—r Surr by woemen couert baron except before the Steward of the Mannor or his Deputie where shee shal be soly examined or in extreamitie of sicknes as is aforesaid are and shal be voide Item All Surrenders taken of women as aforesaid 22 All Surrenders taken dy the Reeue or Head borough must be pâ—esented at the first or second next generall court or of men by the Reeue or his Deputie or by a Headborough for the time being and in the presence of sixe customarie Tennants as aforesaid shal be and ought to be by the Homage presented at the first or second next general court holden for the Mannor whereof the same is holden after the taking thereof or within one yeere and a day next after the taking of the same Surrender if any such generall Court be holden within a yeere and a day next after the same Surrender so taken Or else if no such generall Court bee holden within a yeere and a day then to be by the Homage presented at the next generall Court to be holden for the same Mannor next after the same yeere and day is and shall bee a good Surrender as if the same had beene taken by the Stâ—ward or his Deputie of that Mannor or woman examined as aforesaid in open court or otherwise all Surrenders taken by the said Reeue or his Deputie or by a Headborough Or else they shal be voide and in the presence of sixe tenants and not presented by the said Homage in manner forme aforesaid are and shal be voide But when any when Surr to the vse of the last will must be presented Surrender shall be made by any person to the vse of his or her last Will and Testament to the intent that he or she may thereby or therevpon make declare his or her last Will Testament That Surrender is to be presented at the first or second next generall Court of that Mannor happening next after the decease of the partie so Surrendring perfectly knowne and not before But if the same be not at the first or second court next after the death of the same partie presented Or if the same party hath before in his life time made any Or else voyde other Surrender of the same Lands or tenements and the same to be presented Then the said Surrender to the vse of such last Will and Testament is and shal be voide 23 The homage must write Billa vera vpon their presentments good Surrend Item The Homage must write Billa vera vpon euery Surrender by them presented when they finde the same Surrenders agreeable to the custome and also vpon euery other of their presentments shall make Billa vera when they bee agreeable to the said custome Or else if the said Homage receiue any Surrender or other bills to them exhibited which be doubtfull or repugnant to the custome of the Mannor whereof the land is holden vpon euery such Surrender or Bill Ignoramus shal be made or the like superscription to the intent And Ignoramus on the contrary it may be knowne to be doubtfull or naught or else returne the same naughtie Surrenders or Bills backe againe to the parties that exhibited the same 24 Woemen couert baron may turrender with heire husbands c. Item Euery woman being Couert Baron of the age of one and twentie yeeres or vpwards hauing any customarie lands or tenements to her or her heires or for life liues or yeeres and holden of the said Mannors or of either of them may together with her husband by the hands of the said Steward or his sufficient Deputie Surrender all her said Lands and Tenements interest and terme of yeeres to the vse of her said husband or to any other person or persons at their will and Soly examined before the Steeward or deputie pleasure So as she be solie and secretly examined before the Steward or his sufficient Deputie Item All Surrenders taken out of the Court by the Steward of the said Mannors or of any of 25 Surrenders taken out of court by the Steward or his deputie them or his sufficient Deputy of any person or persons being of the full age of one and twentie yeeres or more and of Sanae memoriae of any of their customarie lands and tenements holden of the said Mannors or of either of them be good by the customes of the said Mannors and of either of Must be presented at the next generall courte them and the same ought to be published and notified to the Homage at the next generall Court Or else those Surrenders are also voide Item All the Fines vpon admittances for any 26 The fines are certaine and not arbitrarie the now lands tenements or hereditaments
of all and euery the persons named parties to the said Indenture holden by copie of Court Roll are and ought to be certaine and not arbitrarie or at the will of the Lord. And the Lord or Lords of the said Mannors or of either of them ought to haue and take Fines vpon admittances as hereafter What fines are due followeth and not other or greater That is to say vpon the admission of the heire or heires after a discent for euery acre of land of what nature or kinde so euer sixteene pence and so after that rate for greater or lesser quantities of Land And vpon admission of one person onely after any Surrender the like somme of sixteene pence for euery acre and so after that rate for euery greater or lesser quantitie of land But if more then one person be admitted after or vpon any Surrender Then If more then one Person be admitted then c. euery of the same persons are to pay halfe so much as one person ought to pay and not more Likewise vpon admission of the heire or heires after a discent for euery Messuage customarie with the Courts Yards Easements Orchards and Gardens therevnto belonging for a Fine the somme of thirteene shillings foure pence and not more And for a dwelling house called a Tenement with the Courts Yards Orchards Easements and Gardens therevnto belonging the somme of ten shillings and not more and for a cottage vsed for dwelling with easements and gardens therevnto belonging or without garden and not demised for more then three pounds by the yeere the somme of twenty pence But for a building not vsed for a dwelling house so much onely as according to the quantitie of the land after the rate of sixteene What fine for a building not vsed for a dwelling house pence the acre And for greater cottages vsed for dwelling and which shall be let for aboue three pounds by the yeere with the Courts Yards Orchards Gardens and Easements therevnto belonging the somme of ten shillings And the like is of Messuages Tenements and Cottages hereafter to be built And vpon or after any Surrender at the admission the like Fines are to be paide for one person But if any Surrender be made by Admission of man and wife a whole fine any person or persons to a man and his wife then a whole fine is to be paid for the husband and halfe a fine is to be paide for the wife And if more persons be admitted vpon one Surrender then euery of the same persons are to pay for Fine halfe so much as one person ought to pay and not more All acres are to bee accoâ—pted according to the statute or ordinance de terris mensurandis and orchards and gardens not belonging to such Messuages Tenements or Cottages are to pay as lands according to the quantitie thereof according to the rate aforesaid And parts of Messuages The fines must be entred in the margent of the coppies see article 19. parts of Tenements and parts of Cottages are to pay for Fines respectiuely in regard of the whole according to the rate of the whole And all fines paid are to be set downe and expressed in the copie of the Court Roll thereof or in the margent of the same copie And if any question or doubt shall hereafter arise about the discerning and true estimation what or which be or ought to bee accompted a Messuage and what or which a dwelling house called atenement and what or which a Cottage The same is to bee referred to the Homage of the Mannor at the next generall Court and by the same to be tryed ordered determined and presented according to such presentments fines are to be paid 27 The Lord is to allowe of all Surr made according to thes articles Item The Lord or Lords of the said Mannors or either of them and their and euery of their Stewards for the time being shall and ought to accept and allow of all and euery Surrender and Surrenders to be made of any the lands tenements or hereditaments whereof any of the persons named parties to the said Indenture are seised as copy holders according to the tenour intent and true meaning of these Schedules and the Articles therein contained So as the parties Surrendering be not before that time by the Homage of the same Mannor presented and found to haue made or committed some matter of forfeiture of those lands and tenements so Surrendred contrarie to the customes and articles in these Schedules expressed or some or one of them And the Lord of the same Mannor by his Steward for such fine as in or for such things is before expressed shal grant the same copyhold Lands Tenements and hereditaments so Surrendred according to the tenor vse and intent of the same Surrender And shall duely admit such person or persons to whom or to whose vse such Surrenders shal be made Item If the Lord or Lords of the said Mannors 28 If the Lord refuse to admiâ—â— then c. or either of them or his or their Steward for the time being shall refuse to admit any person or persons to whom or to whose vse such Surrender as in the precedent Article is expressed shal be made or shall refuse to admit such person or persons to whom any of the said copyhold or customarie or reputed copyhold or customarie lands tenements or hereditaments shall discend according to the custome of the said Mannors and true meaning of these Schedules Then the person sâ— not admitted paying or tendering to the Lord or his Reeue fine or fines for the same according to the true meaning of these Schedules shall and may into such Lands Tenements or Hereditaments so surrendred or discended respectiuely enter and the same quietly haue hold and enioy as freely and in such sort as if he or they had beene therevnto lawfully admitted and not otherwise Item If any man make a Surrender onely to 29 Surren to make the wife a ioincture the intent to make his wife a ioynture or to assure it to his wife for terme of her life or during her widdowhood not altering the estate of the Inheritance then for the fine of the same or any admittance therevpon there shal be paid but halfe a fine for the same things so Surrendred That is to say halfe so much as one person should pay vpon admittance according to the true meaning of these Schedules And the like is to be vsed where the husband and wife make a Surrender of the lands of the wife to the end only to make an estate thereof to the husband ioyntly with his wife or to the husband for terme of his life in possession or Remainder And likewise by the said custome for euery Tenant that shal be admitted in Reuersion or Remainder expectant vpon the estate of any particuler Tenant for life in taile or for yeeres granted by copie the same is but halfe so much as it is
vpon other admittances vpon alienations Surrenders or dying seized as aforesaid Item Euery person that exhibiteth or deliuereth 30 Duties to the homage and tennants for billes and Suâ— any Surrender or Bill to the Homage ought to giue and pay to the same Homage for euery such Surrender or Bill foure pence and euery of the said sixe Tenants and also the Hradborough or Reeue which shal be at the taking of any Surrenders as aforesaid ought to haue foure pence a peece of the parties that make the Surrender if the same Surrender bee taken within the said Mannors or in either of them But if they goe out of the said Mannors or either of them for the taking of the same then to haue eight pence a peece and their charges if they shall goe further off And the partie that procureth the said Surrender ought to giue to the said Tennants foure pence besides the said fees which foure pence is to be deliuered with the said Surrender or else he that bringeth in the said Surrender without the said foure pence shall pay it of his owne purse to the Homage Item If it chance at any time vpon the death of 31 Though an heire be admitted yet vppon a new claime the homage shall enquire c. for a coheire any Copyholder or customarie Tenant that there is an heire or heires found and presented by the Homage and after is or are admitted to the lands or tenements of the said Copyholder and at that time no other heires shal be knowne and after it shall chance that one or other commeth and claimeth to be co-heire with the said heire that is admitted then the homage ought thereof to enquire and if they finde his claime true they ought to present the same and then hee or they so claiming shall be likewise admitted and pay his Fine and haue his part of the premisses notwithstanding the former admission Item If any man be admitted to any possession 32 Wher tennanâ—s is admitted and after that an other claimeth the whole the Homage is not bound to enquire but he is driven to his fuite or to any Reuersion or Remainder of any Lands or Tenements whether they be to him discended as shal be supposed or to him Surrendred by any other person and after that commeth another person or persons who pretendeth a title to the whole premisses or to any part thereof and desireth that the Homage may enquire thereof In this case the said Homage is not bound thereof to enquire but he or they are driuen to his or their suite or plaint whether his or their title be right or wrong Exceptin such case where any person or persons shall claime as in the next precedent Article And yet if any shall require the Homage to finde whether he or they were the sonne or sonnes or daughter or daughters of such a one or no the homage knowing or well informed of the truth that he or they shal be the sonne or sons or daughter or daughters of him or her that dyed seized of the lands then in question The Homage ought therein to present the truth But not to present whether he or they ought to haue the premisses or any part thereof to the which another person is already admitted But in such case he or they shal be driuen to his or their suite or plaint as aforesaid for the recouery of their said right if any right they haue Except in such case where any person or persons shall claime as in the next precedent Article Item After the death of euery person being a 33 How lands discended are to be taken vp customarie Tennant of the said Mannors or of either of them the next heire or heires ought to come and take vp the Lands and Tenements whereof his or their auncestors so shall die seised At foureteene â—eeâ—es he is to be admitted in his owne person of what age soeuer he be of And if he or they be of the age of foureteene yeeres or vpwards hee is to be admitted in his owne person within a conuenient At foureteene yeeres is to be admitted in his owne person time after hee or they shal be presented Or else if hee or they bee vnder the age of fourteene yeeres then to come and take it vp by his Gardian Vnder 14. yeres by Gardian vntill he be of the age of fourteene yeeres as aforesaid and to pay for his fine according to the rates expressed in these Schedules and the Gardean to Gardian 3 shillâ—ngs 4 pence pay but three shillings and foure pence at the most for his fine for the Gardeanship or lesse as the Steward or his Deputy shall thinke fit And for Lands discended from the part of the Father the Who shal be Gardian next Cozen of the part on the Mother not able to inherite those lands ought to be Gardean And if See ariicle 37. the lands came from the part of the mother then the like cosen of the part of the Father ought to bee Gardean if that person will accept thereof and vpon their refusall or not praying to bee admitted Gardean at the first or second Court after that infant ought to be admitted then may the Steward admit any other of the kindred of the Infant to whom his Lands cannot discend to bee Gardian And if none of the kindred will accept of the Gardianship then may another be admitted And euery The Gardian shall accompt Gardian shall accompt to the heire of the profits and repaire the Copyhold Tenements of him whose Gardian hee is And vpon admittance shall be bound to the Lord for the time being with And shal be bound to the Lord to performe the same condition for performance thereof in such summe as the Homage of the said Court or the greater part therof shal like off And of the lands of euery Infant vnder fourteene yeeres of age that shal be a purchasor a gardian shal be admitted and shall so demeane himselfe in such manner as for the Gardian of an Infant hauing Lands by discent is limitted and appointed Item Euery person to whose vse any of the said 34 They to whose vse Lands are surrendred ought within 3. yeares after the presentment to take them vp Lands or Tenements shal be Surrendred ought to come within three yeeres after the same bee presented and take vp the same by himselfe if he be of age and to be admitted as aforesaid and to pay his fine or else by his Gardian as aforesaid Item If any of the said heires Alienees or Gardians 35 The Lord may distraine for the Fines Or by de fault of distrese selfe the lands doe not pay their Fines within one moneth after the same fines be extracted and the extracts deliuered to the Reeue or his Deputie for the gathering thereof and by them or either of them demanded then it shall bee lawfull for the Lord or Lords of the said Mannor
or Mannors for the time being or his or their officers to distraine and auow as for rents and for want of distresse to seize the Lands and Tenements for the which the said fine or fines are to be paid and to enioy the same to his or their owne vse vntill he or they shal be fully satisfied and paid the said Fine or Fines to bee paid by him or them that so ought to pay the same Item If any customarie or copyhold Tennant 36 The like he may doe for non payment of the quitrent of the said Mannors or of either of them shall not pay his rents for his copyhold for which the same is due and demanded by the said Reeue or his Deputie Then it shall bâ—e lawfull for the Lord or Lords of the said Mannor or Mannors for the time being or his or their Officers to distraine and anow and for want of sufficient distresse to seize the lands and tenements out of the which the same ought to be paid and to take and enioy the rents issues and profits of the same to his or their owne vse vntill he or they shal be fully satisfied and paide the same rents by him or them that so ought to pay the same Item That when any Tenant dyeth seized leauing 37 Who shal be Gardian his heire vnder the age of fourteene yeeres the next of the kinne to whom the said Lands and Tenements cannot discend shall haue if hee shall require it the custodie of the heire and of his lands and tenements committed vnto him for the vse of the heire vntill he come to the age of fourteene yeeres as is aforesaid then he to choose his own See article 33. Gardian and the former Gardian at any time after vpon reasonable request to yeeld accompt to the heyre of the profits of his lands receiued Item If any person or persons be disposed to let his or their customarie Lands or Tenements to any other person or persons and to their executors 38 Tennants may let leases for 31 yeeres and foure months without any lysence or Fine and assignes for the terme of one and thirtie yeeres or lesse the same person or persons haue and shall haue full power and authoritie to set or let to farme his or their Copyhold Lands or Tenements to any person or persons their executors administrators and assignes for the terme of one and thirtie yeeres and foure monethes or lesse in See the abstract of the indenture pag. 7. possession from the time of the making thereof by writing without any licence to him or them to be granted and without paying any fine to the Lord or incurring any forfeiture or seisure of or for the same So as the same lease doe not exceede one and thirtie yeeres and foure monethes from the time of the making thereof But such lease is and If such leases be not presâ—nted to the homage within on yeere after the making they shall be void ought to be presented to the Homage of the Mannor whereof the Lands or tenements so leased are held within one yeere after the making thereof or else the same lease so made and not presented as aforesaid shal be void and of none effect Item The custome of the Mannor is to giue to 39 Either mannor is vpon euery chaung of Lord to pay fiue pounds for recognition money the Lord of euery of the said Mannors vpon the change of euery Lorâ— at the next Court after the first entry bona fide ten pounds of lawfull money of England That is to say out of each Mannor fiue pounds for the Recognition and acknowledging the seruices which is to be leauied and collected by the Reeue for the time being amongst all the Copyholders of the said Mannors respectiuely according to the rates they shal be taxed at by the Homage at the next Court to bee holden after the comming of the new Lord. Item The Homage of euery of the said Mannors 40 How the Reeue of either manor is to be chosen ought yeerely at the generall Court to be holden next after Michaelmas to elect and choose seuerall Reeues for euery of the said Mannors That is to say to elect and choose two customarie Tenants either of the said persons named parties to the said presents their heires or assignes or of others not named to beare the Office of the Reeue for each of the said Mannors namely he that was before in election if he be aliue and one other or if he be dead two other to the intent the Lord of the said Mannors or of either of them or his Steward may appoint the one of them so elected for one whole yeere that is one to serue for each of the said Mannors So hee be appointed within that Mannor of which he is a tenant and for which he shal be so chosen which Reeue being so appointed He shall serue one whole yere ought to take vpon him the said Office for one whole yeere then next ensuing to execute the same by himselfe or his Deputie for whom he shall answere and to be subiect to accompt and answere What sine he shall pay if he refuse for the same as in the said presents is set downe And if a Copy-holder shal be duely chosen and appointed by the Homage to bee the Lords Reeue as aforesaid and according to his turne presented by the Homage and shall refuse to serue the said Office by himselfe or his Deputic then euery such person so refusing within the said Mannor of Hackney shall pay for a fine sixe pounds thirteene shillings and foure pence And euery such person so reâ—using within the said Mannor of The homage shall chose another vntill one doe accept and serue Stebenhuth shall pay for a fine ten pounds to the Lord of the Mannor whereof his Lands are holden And the Homage of the same Mannor shal be charged from time to time to choose another Reeue in the place of him that so shall refuse vntill such time as for the same Mannor one bee chosen that shall and wâ—ll serue the said Office And euery Copyholder that shal be chosen and appointed to the said Office as aforesaid and shal refuse to serue the same office shall pay the fine aforesaid to the Lord of that Mannor for his refusall the one halfe The halfe of fines payd by refusers shal be allowed him who next shall serue of all which fine or fines of Tenant or Tennants so refusing to accept and execute the said office of Reeueship according to the true meaning of these Schedules the Lord or Lords of the said Mannors or either of them of whom respectiuely such tenant or tenants so refusing shall hold ought and shall from time to time allow vnto such person or persons as being chosen and appointed to be Reeue as aforesaid and shall and will next after the refusall of any one or more of the said tenants so chosen accept and
serue the said office the moyetie of the said Fine or Fines respectiuely to be by him defaulked and retained in his accompt and by the Lord of that Mannor vpon the same Reeues accompt And be by him retayned at his accompting whensoeuer he shall accompt for the same to be allowed Item If any Copyholder that shall accept and 41 In what cases the Lord may seese the Reeues lands execute the said office of Reeue shall refuse to satisfie and pay vnto the Lord the yeerely quitrents and Fines for admittances vpon alienations or discents wherewith such Reeue shall or may be lawfully charged by and according to the true meaning of these presents Or shall refuse to accompt with the Lord within two moneths next yeerely after Michaelmas hauing had the Rentall and estracts of Fines vpon admittances as aforesaid for that yeere by the space of two moneths Euery such Reeues lands and tenements that shal refuse so to accompt and pay the said rents and fines which he shall or may haue collected as aforesaid shal be seized into the Lords hands and the Lord shall and may take to his owne vse the issues and profits of his said lands and tenements vntill he shall pay vnto the Lord the rents and fines aforesaid and vntill he hath also satisfied and paid the Lord for And what he shall pay for his offence his said offence viz. being Reeue of Hackney sixe pounds thirteene shillings and foure pence And being Reeue of Stebunhuth ten pounds Neuerthelesse the Reeue ought not nor shall be charged or chargeable to answere any quitrents contained in any rentall or estracts vnlesse it appeare vnto him He is not to answere any quit-rents vnles he know the tennant or where the land lyeth by the rentall of the former Reeue or otherwise be made knowne vnto him by some of the Lords officers who is the tenant or where the land lyeth for or in respect of which the same quitrents ought to be paid Item No copyholder of the said Mannors or of 42 No Reeues within this coÌ„position shall be charged with the Leet or court baron otherwise then in the 41. article either of them being named parties to the said Indenture nor their heires or assignes ought or shall at any tune bee charged to collect or gather any of the amerciaments fines or other issues or profits of the Courts Leetes or Courts Baron holden within the said Mannors or of either of them or be chargeable to answere or accompt for the same to the Lord of the said Mannors or of either of them otherwise then in the last precedent Article is mentioned nor to prouide or allow for any dinners Nor prouide for any dinnerâ— either on the day or daies the Court Leete shal be holden vpon or on the day or dayes of the two generall Courts But are and shal be thereof for euer freed and discharged Except that such tenant Except c. or his heires shall hereafter purchase or haue other customary lands then those that the said persons named parties to the said Indenture or some or one of them the said persons doe now hold which shal be worth to bee sold at the least two hundred pounds of lawfull money of England or shal be of the cleere yerely value of twenty pounds of like money Item Euery one of the said customarie tennants 43 What tennants may be chosen Recues named parties to the said Indenture whose lands Tenements and Hereditaments holden by Copie of Court Roll of either of the said Mannors are worth sixeteene pounds of like mony as aforesaid by the yeere to be let or two hundred pounds to be sold by the estimation and presentment of the Homage of the same Mannor shall beare the office of Reeue of and for such of the said Mannors whereof he shal be a Tenant by copie of Court Roll and for which hee shal be chosen and appointed Reeue as aforesaid when his or their time and course doth come Item Euery of the said Reeues is to be allowed 44 What allowances the Reeue is to haue of the Lord. of the said Lord or Lords for the executing of the said office for one yeere as followeth viz. the Reeue of Stebunhuth three pounds sixe shillings and eight pence and six shillings eight pence more for and in respect of an allowance of a coate cloth to the said Reeue And the Reeue of Hackney fiftie three shillings and foure pence and sixe shillings eight pence more for and in respect of an allowance of a coate cloth to the same Reeue and all other commodities due and incident to the said office for either of them or vsed heretofore to be paid to the said Reeue by any the Tenants of the said Mannors respectiuely Item The Reeues of the said Mannors and of either of them shall at the next generall Court after 45 The Reeue to deliuer the Rentall to his Successor To be amerced his yeere of seruice expired deliuer the rentall by which hee made his accompt to the Reeue that shall next succeede him vpon paine to bee amerced or fined by the Homage if hee shall not so doe Item All the customarie Tenants of the said 46 Copyholders may breake and digge their grounds fell downe timber woods suffer howsen â—â— decay without forfeicture Mannors and of either of them may breake and digge their copyhold grounds holden of the said Mannors and of either of them at his and their pleasure and fell and cut downe their timber and woods growing or that shall grow vpon the same and conuert it to their best vse and profit and may also suffer their Copyhold Tenements and houses to decay without incurring any seizure or forfeiture of their estates therefore or other paine and may take and pull downe their said Tenements and erect or set them vp againe either where they stood before or vpon any other lands holden by copy of Court Roll of the said Mannors But may not pull downe howsen to set them vpon free hold land or of either of them But they may not or shall not take or pull them downe to set them or any part of them vpon their owne Free-holds or vpon the Freeholds of any other 47 Copyholders may lopp trees growing vpon the wast before their howsen Item Euery of the said copyholders or reputed copyholders named parties to the said Indentures may lop and shred all such trees as grow before their houses or Tenements vpon the waste ground and the same conuert to their owne vse May dig grauell c. vpon the wast without any offence so the said trees stand for the defence of their houses yards or gardens and also may digge grauell sand clay and lome vpon the said waste grounds to build or repaire any of their copyhold Tenements within the said Mannors or in either of them without any licence So alwaies as euery of the said copyholders
doe fill vp so much as shal be digged by him or them Item If any person or persons being Tenant Letting of lands for more then 31 yeeres 4 months is a forfeicture customarie shall without licence by Indenture or other writing or otherwise let his said customarie Lands or Tenements for more yeeres then one and thirtie yeeres and foure moneths it shal be a forfeiture of his estate by the custome of the said Mannors and of either of them being found and presented by the Homage or else otherwise lawfully and sufficiently proued Item For Treason or Felony whatsoeuer that shal be committed by any Copy-holder of the said 49 For what offences these copy-holders shall forfeit their estates Mannors or of any of them for which hee shal be lawfully attainted hee shall forfeit his Copyhold Lands and Tenements to the Lord of the said Mannor And for all other offence or offences act or acts whatsoeuer for which a Free-holder ought by the common lawes of the land to forfeit his free-hold lands and tenements there a Copy-holder of the said Mannors or of either of them shall forfeit as a Free-holder ought to forfeit in like case his Free hold But if a copyholder be out-lawed for any cause sauing Treason or Felony the Lord Outlawâ—ie vnles for treason or felony shal be no forfeiture shall not haue the issues or profits of his lands And if a copyholder make a Feoffement of his copyhold gift in taile or lease for life or liues by Deede or without Deede by liuerie and seizin therevpon or shall suffer a Recouerie at the Common More forfeitur of estate viz. making a Feoffements guift in tale lease for liues suffering a Recoldy at the common law law leuie a Fine or wilfully refuse and deny to pay doe or performe his rents fines suites customes and seruices at any time hereafter due to the Lord or Lords of the said Mannors or of either of them for their said copyholds the same wilfull refusall being presented to the Homage by the Leuijng a fine or willfull denying to pay the rents fines c. oathes of three customarie Tennants with the Reeue or his Deputie the said Tennants or Reeue nor his Deputy being none of the Lords seruants and being found and presented by the homage the same shal be holden and reputed a forfeiture of his estate whatsoeuer hee shall haue by copy of Court Roll at the time of any such act committed or done in so much of his and their copyhold Lands and Tenements as hee shall haue committed any such act onely for so much of his lands tenements out of the which the said quit-rent and other duties is demanded and shal be due and wilfully denied by the said Tenant or tenants as aforesaid Or if any copyholder shall in the Or disclaiming to hold of the Lord. Lords Court or elsewhere in any Court of Record disclaime to hold his said copyhold Lands and tenements of the Lord of the Mannor whereof his Lands and tenements are holden or shall by pleading in the Lords Court or other Court of Record Or claiming their copy-holds to be free holds wilfully claime their copyholds to bee Free-holds or willingly and wittingly pleade in any Real action at the common law in chiefe as a Free-hold Or plead wittingly in a reall action at common law in chiefe as a Free-holder Tenant or shall willingly and wittingly doe any other act or things in or concerning his now Lands and tenements which shal be a disseisin or disinheritance of the Lord or Lords of the said Mannors or of either of them their heires or assignes Or doe any other act which shal be a disseisin of the Lord. other then such acts as in these Articles are especiall mentioned or dispensed withall that then hee shall forfeit his and their estate of and in the same Lands and Tenements so disclaimed to be holden or claimed to be Freehold or for which he shall pleade in chiefe or doe any such other act or thing as is aforesaid Finally the Lord of the said What other forfeictures the Lord shall haue Mannors or of either of them shall haue all such other forfeitures issues profits and aduantages of the said Copyholds as shaâ—l grow due to him by any Statute Lawes of this Realme being not against and contrarie to these Articles customes heere expressely set downe Item If any person or persons hauing any estate 50 The act or neglect of tennant for liues or yeeres shall not preiudice those in remainder of any copyhold lands or tenements holden of the said Mannors or of either of them for terme of life or liues or for terme of yeeres or in the right of their wiues of any estate although he she or they shall doe or suffer or neglect to doe any act or acts during the time aforesaid in or vpon the said Copyhold Lands or Tenements which may or shal be contrary to the custome of the said Mannors or of either of them The same act or acts so being done shall not preiudice or be hurtfull vnto the next person or persons to whom the said customarie Lands or tenements should or ought to remaine reuert or come nor to the said wife or her heires not being partie in Court or consenting in Court to the said act or forfeiture nor that the Lord of the said Mannors or of either of them shall take any longer aduantage issues or profits of the same Copyhold Lands or Tenements then during the time of such estates as is aforesaid of the partie committing doing or assenting to such act or acts So that after his or their decease or estates determined the said Lands and Tenements shall remaine reuert or come to the next person or persons or to such person or persons to whom the same should haue comen or remained or goe or reuert immediately after such estate or estates ended or determined as though there had beene no such act or acts done contrary to the tenor or true meaning of these presents by any such person or persons Item The particular or priuate act or acts of any 51 The priuat act of any tennants contrary to these articles shall not extend to be a breach of the customes to the hurt of the rest customary Tennant or tenants of any of the said Mannors which shall happen to be done wilfully by or betweene them or any of them and the Lord or Lords of the said Mannors or either of them and his or their Reeue or of either of them contrarie to the Articles true meaning of these presents neither doth nor shal extend to be coÌ„strued to bee a breach of the ancient Customes of the said Mannors or of either of them to the hurt or preiudice of the rest of the customarie Tenants but of themselues onely doing the said particular act 52 Tennant for life or yeeres making wast shal be fined by the homage Item
grounds and commons and laying of bridges ouer the said common Sewers and shall make their accompt in that behalfe to the Homage at the generall Court when the yeere for which they were chosen shall expire 63 The homage may make By-lawes which shall binde the tennants Item The copyhold and customarie Tennants may make by lawes at their generall Courts when neede shall require which custome shal be so continued and the said by lawes so by them made shall binde all the Copyhold Tenants of the said Mannors or of either of them so the same bee not contrarie to the true meaning of these Articles Item By the custome of the said Mannors and of either of them Tennants in taile of customarie 64 Recoueryes may be suffered to barre intailes lands and tenements may suffer common recoueries within the said seuerall Mannors with single or double vouchers or by agreement forfeit the said lands and tenements into the Lords hands for the cutting of the estate taile which custome by these Articles shal haue still continuance and such Recoueries and forfeitures are and shall bee good to bare the said in-taile Item Whensoeuer there shal be any Court or 65 Tennants not appearing at set courtes shall not be amerced aboue 4 pence Courts Baron or other then the said two generall Courts kept within the said Mannors or either of them no copyholder ought nor shall be amerced aboue the summe of foure pence for any default of his apparance at any the same Court or Courts except the said two generall Courts neither shall incurre any forfeiture or seisure of his Copyhold lands or tenements or any other Damage for any such default And the said Amerciament to bee taxed by the Affurors tenants of that Court. Item The Steward or his Deputy is to haue 66 The Stewards fees such Fees and allowances as hereafter are expressed viz. for euery Surrender taken out of Court fiue shillings and nothing for any Surrender taken in Court for euery woman couert Baron that shal be examined sixe shillings eight pence for euery admittance of euery person two shillings for entering euery Surrender and making the copie of Court Roll therevpon sixe shillings eight pence for euery precept for a view of partition and entring the same and the returne thereof vpon the Court Roll and the copie thereof two shillings sixe pence And if it exceede two sheetes of paper then for euery sheete ouer and aboue two sheetes twelue pence more For searching the court Rolls for euery yeere foure pence For euery purchased Court thirteene shillings foure pence For entring a note of a Lease granted of any Lands or tenements containing the date quantitie of lands or tenements certaintie of terme to whom the same shal be granted and for a note thereof to the party sixe pence For these things before expressed the Steward shall haue onely such Fees as before is declared and for all other things hee shall haue as formerly hath anciently beene vsed not more Item All Messuages Tenements and Cottages 67 Buildings to be erected shall pay fines as those allreadie built that shall hereafter bee built vpon any the copyhol Lands whereof the customes are hereby meant to bee declared shal be held and enioyed by the copyhold Tenants thereof vnder the same customes and Articles herein declared as the Lands whereon they shal be built are holden and enioyed But shall pay such fines therefore as is before declared for Messuages Tenements and Cottages 68 The Lord shall not seuer from the mannor any of these copy-holds to any persons in fee simple or other estate of freehold c. that shal be new built Item The Lord of the said Mannors or of either of them their heires or assignes shal not at any time hereafter grant or conuey seuered from the Mannor wherof the same is now holden or ought to bee holden any of the Messuages Cottages Lands Tenemements or Hereditaments whereof any of the said persons named parties to the said Indenture herevnto annexed is now copyholder or customarie Tenant to any person or persons in Fee-simple Fee-taile or for terme of life or other estate of freehold or for any estate or terme other then by copie of Court Roll according to the customes of the said Mannors and true meaning of these presents and the Iudenture whereunto the same are annexed except the Freehold to be granted or seuered at the petition and desire of such person or persons as then shal be copyholder thereof according to the true meaning of these presents And it the Lord hath granted away the Freehold of any the copyhold Lands or Tenements wherof the custome is hereby ment to be declared hee shall get and take the same backe againe and the same shall notwithstanding such grant or alienation be annexed to the Mannor whereof it was or is held and shal be held and enioyed by the Tenant his heires and assignes thereof by copie of Court Roll of the same Mannor vnder the rents seruices and customes in these Articles expressed and not otherwise And also that the Lord shall admit by his Steward or his Deputy all such Tenant and Tenants that ought of right to be admitted vpon the presentment of the Homage AN ALPHABETICALL TABLE OF THE NAMES OF THE COPYHOLD TENANTS OF THE MANNORS OF STEPNEY alias STEBVNHVTH and HACKNEY for whom the said Decree concerning the customes aforesaâ—d was made in Chancerie the two and twentieth day of Iuly in the fifteenth yeere of the raigne of our Soueraigne Lord King Iames against the said Right Honorable Thomas Lord Wentworth then Lord of the said Mannors A VIncent Amcots Limehouse Iacob Ashley Limehouse William Adams Limehouse Will. Ardington White Chappel Thomas Abbot Popler Iane Alder Popler Nicholas Ask with Hackney William Alder of Ratcliffe highway B William Bygot Ratcliffe William Barnet White Chappell Robert Borne Pop. Hugh Bullock vxor Henr. Banister Esquire Hackney William Bird vx Hackney Nicholas Burton Hackney Edward Browne Hackney Gyles Bynckes Hackney Gyles de Budt Hackney Edmond Barbor Oldford Henry Barbor Francis Barbor Tho Baxter vxor Bowe Michael Bonner Bowe Iohn Briggs vxor Bowe Christopher Baker Ratcliffe William Browne Robert Benns Peter Baker Alice Bland Raph Bowers Thomas Best Quescell Bratost alias Lee Limehouse Iohn Ball Iohn Bennet Robert Bradshaw Mathew Barret Richard Bromfield Elizabeth Bedford Iohn Bigot C Thomas Commins Nicholas Cosens Thomas Crane Richard Catcher Edward Catcher Thomas Croxall William Cooke vxor Walter Henley in Reuersion Thomas Catcher Hackney Iohn Catcher Richard Cheyney Francis Clerkevid Iohn Catcher William Catcher Thomas Catcher Iohn Cowper White Chappell Tho Coxan Walter Cooke Ratcliffe Walter Coale Peter Croxall Mary Cope Limehouse Elizabeth Clerke Marion Crispe Popler Mary Carpenter Iohn Chandler Bowe William Clarke George Cooke Inholder Isaack Cotton Richard Catcher fil Tho Iohn Coleman White Chappell D Nicholas Diggins Mileend William Dickinson Hackney Iames Deane William Dauis Nicholas Dickens
Stepney Hugh Dauis White Chappell Alexander Dauison Popler Iames Dauies George Dethicke Gilbert Dethick Henry Dethicke Iohn Day Bowe Rachel Dauison Robert Dixon White Chappell E Iohn Eaglefield and Iane his wife Bow Richard Edwards Alexander Elcock Richard Elcock George Edwards Shorditch William Ewens Limehouse Iohn Euans Iohn English F Raph Flauell Ratcliffe Iohn Flint Limehouse Iohn Forster Bow Iohn Fell Hackney Fuller widdow Ratcliffe G William Gough Bow William Goddard Vincent Goddard Iohn Garland Bow Richard Gouge Iohn Graues Limehouse Michael Geere Iohn George Roger Gunston Ratcliffe Roger Glouer Iohn Gunston Thomas Goddard Iohn Gruit vxor Richard Glouer Iohn Francis Robert Thomas H Sir Ferdinando Heyborne Hackney Gresham Hogan Henry Haynes Thomas Hawkes Richard Harrison Sr Tho Hardresse Mileend Mileend Robert Hart Thomas Hogge Will Herendin Robert Hunt Richard Hoskins Limehouse Walter Hendley Richard Hale Ratcliffe Robert Henricke Iohn Howland White Chappel Cord well Hamond Geor. HoughtoÌ„ vx Thomas Halbrooke Nicholas Hallam Thomas Hartis Waiter Hallyley Elizabeth Hide Dorothy Iohn Hils Popler Iohn Harbert Rob. Hickes Will Hanford Robert Hudson Iohn Hether Bowe Francis Hollyday The heyres of Haggis The heires of Tho Hardcastle I Sir Iohn Iowles Knight Bowe William Iuie Limehouse Roger Iones Margaret Iorden Michael Iones et vxor Bowe Thomas Iones Ratliffe Iohn Ienks Ionas Iames. Nicholas Isack Adam Iohnson Shoraitch Iones widdow Limehouse K Iohn Key Miles Hackney Iohn Killingworth Shorditch Iohn Knowles Popler William Kattle Iohn King Limehouse L Robert Linage Robert Lambard Bowe Iohn Lowden Thomas Lawrence Ratliffe George Linum Richard Leigh et vxor Dame Margaret Lake Richard Lowfield Iohn Lowfield William Lowfield Humfry Lowfield Iohn Linkes William Lyones Milâ—nd Iohn Lyones M Sir Wil Martin Knight Hack Elizabeth Mackeris William Mansbridge Richard Mills Iohn Maynard Limehouse Iohn Mynshawe Isabell Moore Iohn Moore Michaell Merrial William Millar Shorditch George Michell Thomas Mould Stepney Edward Mathewes Thomas Maning Ratliffe Henry maybancke whitechap Samuell Marsh Thomas Marsh Eme Melsham vid. Thomas Michell Anne Michell Popler Iohn Manshippe Francis Moore Bowe Richard Merrit Tho Marsh Esquire Milend Thomas Milton Ioane Manly N Iohn Newet Hackney William Newman Iohn Nichols Barbara Nichols Edward Nichols Ratliffe Laurence Netmaker Shorditch Thomas newport Limehouse Thomas Nichols Shipwrite P William Phillips sen Bowe William Philips iun. Lime Richard Parkes William Pond William Peacocke William Pointell Giles Patricke et vx William Palmer Bed Greene. Thomas Peirepoint Whitechap Thomas Peirciuall Bowe Henry Parsons et vx Shorditch Henry Parsons Hackney Miles Pressick Vincent Parrit Popler Iohn Pettit Thomas pinnock Richard Pointell Thomas Pye Christopher Potkin Hackney Q Mathew de Quester R Samuell Rowley Whitechap Roger Robinson Anne Riland late wife of Wil Haggis Richard Rooding Bowe William Roberts Henry Reynolds Popley Edward Russell Ratliffe Robert Rickman Edmund Rolfe Iohn Rolfe Thomas Railton Popley Catherin Rushbrooke Henry Riuers Richard Rowe Hackney Iohn Rowe Iohn Rich Limehouse Edith Read William Reeue Elizabeth Rider Bridget Rider Katherin Rider Grissingon Rider Roger Rose White Chapple Roger Rose and Hackney Iohn Rose William Swaine Hackney Iohn Steward Iohn Shelley Iohn Snape Barthol Smith George Saris of London Limehouse and Ratliffe William Simons Limehouse Peter Sumner Bowe Thomas Salter et vx Thomas Scorier Edward Smith Iames Short Shorditch Thomas Saunderson Ratliffe Iohn Sadler senior Iohn Stokes Richard Simmes milend Iohn Smith Popley Samuel Soame Iohn Swaine Robert Sheffield Ieremy Swanley I Iohn sweete Bednall greene George Smith White Iohn Smith his sonn Anthony Skinner Paul Smith White Chap Iohn Sadler iunor Nicholas Simondson Rat Samuel Sayers Hackney T William Thorne Popley Iohn Thorne Robert Thorne Edward Thickins White Henry Tyler Morgan Thomas Shorditch Henry Troutbeck Bow Iohn Thorowgood Stephen Trafford Richard Tiler Limehouse Peter Tailor V Thomas Vsher Hackney Thomas Valentine W Iohn West Popley Thomas Wats Iohn Walden Thomas West Edmond White Hackny Tho Walker Barthol Walker Eliz Walker Margaret Walker Milend Emery Wilson Eliz Wilding wid Iane Wilding Iane Willson Iohn Watts Ratliffe Wattkyns Wid. Abraham Wakefield White Chappell Thom. Wilson et vx Laurence Wyneall Alice Williams Iohn Wilde Shorditch Elizabeth walker Lime Henry Walker Iohn Walker Mathew Woodcott Anne Woodcott vid. Walter Whiting Thomas Whitebread Bow Andrew Wilmer Iohn Wilkinson Smith Wilkinson Henry Watley Iohn Watley Iohn Wright Edward Wyborne Iohn Wyborne Y Thomas Yardley White Chap ANOTHER TABLE ALPHABETIcall for the ready finding of the seuerall customes priuiledges and note-worthy matters contained in this Booke ACte or neglect of tennant for life or yeeres shall not preiudice those in remainder article 50. Acte priuate of any tennants contrary to these articles shall not extend to be abreach of customes to the hurt of the rest article 51. Admission denied by the Lord see article 28. How lands discended are to be taken vp article 33. 34 See Dissents and Surrenders  Amerciaments the Lord may distreyne for but not seise articles 53. Annoyances how to redresse see article 7. Appearance at two generall Courts yeerely article 3. Fayling to appeare shall be amerced article 4. Fayling at any Court other then the two generall Courts shall not bee amerced aboue foure pence article 65. Buildings hereafter to bee erected shall pay no other fines then in these articles art 67. Bylawes may bee made by the Homage which shall binde the Tennants art 63. Courts see Appearance  Commons surcharged how to remedy art 61. see Driuers Courtesie of England none for men heere art 11. Clayme by diuers and suite for Copyhold art 31. 32. 57. Chaunge of Lord see Recognition  Coheyres see Discents and Partition  Copyholders may not pull downe housen to set them vpon Freehold land art 46. See Forfeitures Copyholders May breake and digge their grounds  May fell downe timber and woods  May suffer housen to decay without forfeiture  May loppe trees vpon the wast before their housen  May digge grauell sand clay and loame vpon the wast to build or repaire art 46. 47. See Leases Discents art â—0 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 33. Dower nâ—ne art 11. Dryuers of the Common art 60. 61. 62. Enchroachments and annoyances how to redresse art 7. Escheate to the Lord for want of Heyre art 10. Estates of Inhâ—ritance art 1. Fines due to the Lord vpon admissions art 19. 26. 35. 67. Forfeitures of Estate art 48. 49. Fees to the Homage art 56. 30. Fees to the Steward art 66. Gardian of the Heyre vnder age art 33. 37. Gauelkinde art 12. Homage their charge and dutie c. art 8. 9. 23. 31. 62. 63. What fees are due to the land art 5. 6. 30. Heyre not knowing what shall be done art 10. Headborough may take Surrenders art 20. 22. Last will and Testament See Surrenders  Leases Tennants may let for thirty one yeeres and foure moneths in possession from the making without Lysence art 38. but may not let for longer time vpon paine of forfeiture
art 48. Leet these tennants beeing Reeues are not to be charged with the Leet booke art 42. Marckes Meares and Stakes how to set betwixt Tennants art 59. Partition how to make betwixt Coheires Ioint-tennants and tennants in common art 54. Pownd of the Lord and cattell impounded how to deliuer article 55. 56. 58. Quit-rents when to be paide c. art 2. 36. 41. Reeue to take surrenders art 20. Surrenders taken by him when to be presented 22. How to be chosen 40. How long to serue Ibidem His fine for refusing to serue Ibid. A new to be chosen vpon refusall Ibid. The succeeding Reeue shall haue halfe of the fine of the former refusing and detaine it in his accompt Ibid. His lands shal be seised for not paying rents and fines 41. His forfeiture for not paying Ibid. He is not to answeare any quit-rents vnlesse hee knowe the tennant or the land Ibid. Discharged of the Leet booke Court Baron and dinners 42. Who may be chosen Reeue 43. What allowance and fees he shall haue for executing the office 44. He must deliuer the Rentall to his successor or shall be amerced 45 Recoueries to barre Intailes art 64. Recognition money at the Caunge of the Lord art 39. Surrenders how they are to be made art 1. 19. How to bee taken before Headbrough or Reeue art 20. How to be taked of women couert baron art 21. 24 When surrenders are to be presented art 22. 25. Surrenders made according to these articles are good 27. Surrenders to make the wife a Ioincture art 29. Those to whose vse landes are surrendred ought within three yeares after the presentment to take them vp art 34. Stakes marckes and meares betwixt tennants art 59. Stewards fees particularly set downe art 66. Seuering the Lord of the Mannor may not seuer any of these Copyholders to any person in fee art 68. Titles in controuersie how to decide see Claime  Woemen couert baron see Surrenders  Wast tennants for life or yeares making wast shall be fined by the Homage art 52. FINIS LONDON Imprinted by WILLIAM IONES with consent of the said right honourable THOMAS LORD WENTVVORTH the fourth day of December 1617. Anno. 21. Jacobi Regis MEMORANDVM that according to the former Couenaunts and agreements in this Booke conteyned his said Lordship hath Honorably procured the Acte of Parliament so long desired for perpetuall establishment of the sayd Customes benefits and priuiledges togegether with certaine expositions enlargements and explanations thereunto added The copy of which Acte Verbatim is as followeth viz. An Acte for confirmation of the Copyhold estates and Customes of diuerse Copy-holders of the Mannors of Stepny and Hackney according to certeyne Indentures of agreement and a Decree in the High Court of Chauncery made betweene the Lord of the said Mannors and the Copyholders IN most humble manner doe beseech your most Excellent Maiestie Your Highnes most humble and loyall subiect Thomas Lord Wentworth Lord of the Mannors of Stepney alias Stebenheath and Hackney in Your Maiesties County of Middlesex and Your Highnes most humble and obedient subiects Sir Iohn Iolles knight and all the other Copiholders and customary Tenants of the sayd Mannours or of either of them being parties to certaine Indentures bearing date the twentieth day of Iune in the fifteenth yeare of your Highnes Raigne of England made betweene the said Tho Lo Wentworth of the one parte and the sayd Sir Iohn Iolles divers other Copy-holders and Customary tenants of the said Mannors in the same Indentures named of the other part and all the now Copi-holders customary tenants of the said Mannors and of either of them claiming by from or vnder the said Copy-holders and Customary tenants parties to the said Indentures That whereas heretofore 〈◊〉 of thâ— Indenture oâ— the â—0 of â—unâ— se◠〈…〉 diuers questions and Differences haue arisen and beene moued betweene your said subiect Tho Lo Wentworth and the Copy-holders and customary tenants of the sayd Mannors for and concerning the Copyhold lands tenements hereditaments and estates of and within the same Mannors and diuers customes benefits priuiledges discharges other matters concerning the said Copy-hold estates and premises For appeasing whereof and for preuention of the like and all others which in time to come might happen or grow betweene the said Lord his heyres or assignes and others Lords of the said Mannors and the said Copy-holders and customary tenants named in the said Indentures and others tenants of their tenements that shall be hereafter The same Indentures together with certaine schedules thereunto annexed were by the mutuall consent and agreement of the said Lord and tenants made sealed deliuered and duly inrolled in Your Maiesties High court of Chauncery In which said Indentures and schedules are conteined and comprised diuers customes orders immunities discharges benefits and priuiledges by which the said Copy-holders and customary tenants their heires and assignes were and are to take hold vse and enioy inherit alien demise and dispose all and euery or any the landes messuages tenements cotages and hereditaments which they euery or any of them respectiuely then held claimed or enioyed by force or pretence of any grant before that time made by Copy of Court Roll of the sayd Mannors or either of them And diuers other agreements betweene the said Lord and Copy-holders or customary Tenants as in and by the said Indentures and schedules more at large it doth and may appeare Which said Indentures and schedules The Indenture of the 20 day of Iune was decreed in Chancery See Pag 12. and all the matters therein conteyned in or shortly after Trinitie terme in the said Fifteenth yeare of Your Highnes raigne vpon a bill exhibited into Your Maiesties said court of Chauncery by the said Copy-holders against the said Lo Wentworth and vpon the same Lords answer thereunto were duly confirmed established and Decreed by the Decree of your Maiesties said court of Chauncery as by the said bill answere and Decree remaining of Record in the said court it doth also appeare And whereas in the said Indentures one Recitall of the clause for making of Leases See Pag 7. and Pag 39. Clause or Article is conteined in these words following And the said Thomas Lord Wentworth for him his heyres and assignes doeth by these presents grant and agree to and with the said Sir Iohn Iolles and all other the persons named to be parties to these presents and to and with the heyres and assignes of euery of them that euery one of them and euery of their heires and assignes shall and may freely hereafter from time to time grant lease or demise by Deed or otherwise without licence or copy of Court rolle such or so much of the lands tenements and hereditaments or any part or parts thereof of which they or any of them are Copy-holders or customary tenants or reputed to be Copy-holders or customary tenants to such person and persons and for such terme and
the same That the making of any Lease or grant leases or grants sithence the making of the said first mentioned Indentures or of any Lease or The Act that Leases may be let for 31 yeares 4. moneths from the making without forfeiture grant leases or grants at any time hereafter to be made for any terme or tearmes of yeares not exceeding one and thirty yeares and foure monethes from the making or Date thereof by any the Copy-holders or Customary Tenants parties to the said first mentioned Indentures their heires or assignes or others that hereafter shall be Tenements by Copy of Court Boll or Customary Tenants of any of the Landes or Tenements that were any of the said persons named to bee parties at the time of the making of the said first mencioned Indenture from time to time shall not be any forfeiture or cause of forfeiture or seizure to or for the Lord of the said Mannors or either of them for the time being or to or for any other person or persons lawfully clayming from by or vnder the same Lord or Lords allthough such Lease leases or grants hath beene or shall be made without any licence of the Lord of the said Mannors or either of them or hath not beene or shall not be published in the Court of the same Mannors or either of them and allthough no request hath beene or shall be made for any remembrance thereof to be made in the Rolles of the said Court or any such tender of a certainty of any such lease or grant leases or grants or of six pence or any other summe for entry thereof and although any such Lease or grant leases or grants hath not or haue not beene or shall not bee presented to the said Homage as in and by the said clauses or articles is prescribed or mentioned And although any such Lease or grant leases or grants hath or haue beene or shall bee made or limited to commence or beginne from after or at any day or time after the making or date thereof so as the whole terme granted or to be granted in or by such Lease or grant together with the time incurred or to incurre from the day of the date or making thereof vntill the day or time limited or to be limited for the begining or commencement thereof do not exceed Thirty one yeares and foure monethes in the whole and that the neglect or omission of any such publishing requesting tendring or presenting as is aforesaid neither is nor shall bee any forfeiture or cause of forfeiture or seizure of the Landes or Tenements so Leased or to be leased or granted or any of them But if any such neglect or omission hath beene or at any time hereafter shal be But the Leases to be voyd if they be not presented at the first or 2. generall Court next following then euery such Lease of or concerning the which such neglect or omission hath beene or shall bee had shall be vtterly voyd and of no effect And be it further enacted by the authority of Both the Indēters Schedules Decree present explanation of the said clause Art enacted to stād foreuer this present Parliament That aswell the aforesaid two clauses or Articles herein perticulerly recited with such alteration or addition and so explaned construed and enlarged as is aforesaid As also all and euery other the Clauses Articles Agreements and matters in the said seuerall Indentures Schedules and Decree and euery or any of them conteyned shall be ratefied allowed and confirmed by the authority of this present Parliament and that the same seuerall Indentures Schedules and Decree so explained confirmed and enlarged as is aforesaid and euery of them shall bee of force to bind and conclude all and euery the said parties thereunto or to any of them and their and euery of their heires executors administrators and assignes and all and euery person and persons clayming or which shall claime from by or vnder them or any of them in all thinges according to the purport effect and true meaning of the same seuerall Indentures Schedules and Decree and of euery of them and of this present Act And that the same seuerall Indentures Schedules and Decree and euery of them and euery Clause Article and sentence in them and euery or any of them conteined with such alteration enlargments and so explained as is aforesaid shall for euer from and after the making of the same Indentures Schedules and Decree stand bee and remaine and shall be adiudged and taken to stand and be of such and the same force and effect to all intents and purposes as if the same seuerall Indentures Schedules and Decree so explained construed and enlarged as is aforesaid and euery of them and euery Clause Article and sentence in euery of them conteyned were specially and perticulerly expressed and enacted by the Authority of this present Parliament And whereas sithence the making of the said Those which haue compounded since the first Indenture shall enioy the like benefite as the former first mentioned Indentures Your most humble Subiects Sir Thomas Hardresse Knight Richard Catcher sonne of Thomas Catcher monyer Iohn Wright butcher Thomas Pynnocke Elizabeth Hide Dorithy Hide daughter of Edward Hide Walter Whiting mariner Giles Patrick and Sibell his wife Michaell Merrioll Iohn Bigate Anne Ryland late the wife of William Haggis Thomas Wilson gentleman and Katherine his wife Iohn Crane Giles de Bude Sara Hill Constance Clarke Mary Simondson Thomas Denham Samuell Crowther Iohn Crowther Ioseph Crowther Mary Tinesty Thomas Ieffery George Needham William Locke Peter Pierce his heyres Thomas Damport gentleman Richard Bradley Thomas Paramore Esqtuer Iohn Robothom gentleman Richard Alsop Iohn Vassoll William Speering George Speering Walter Whiting Richard Paramore Iohn Robinson Griffine Ellis Ioseph Thornton Beniamine Thornton Tobias Thornton Mathew Graues William Philips Mariner IOHN GALE gentleman WILLIAM GALE gentleman HYMFRY WESTVVOOD GEORGE SMITH gentleman CHRISTOPHER POTKIN EDVVARD BVRLEY FELIX WILSON gentleman and ANNE his wife ARTHVR WINGHAM RICHARD WINGHAM and THOMAS WINGHAM her sonnes WILLIAM DOVE gentleman Anne his wife and IOHN PEASE her sonne WILLIAM CHAPPELL and HENRY IOHNSON Brewer ROBERT KEALE gentleman THOMAS CHAPMAN IOANE his wife DANIELL BASSANO IOHN HODGSON HELKIAH READE CORNELIVS GODFREY THOMAS THORNTON PHILLIP IOYCE and ELIZABETH his wife THOMAS THREDDER being Copy-holders and Customary Tennants of Diuerse messuages Landes and Tenements some o◠them being percell of or within the sayd Man nor of Stepney alias Stebenheath and the residue thereof being parcell of or within the said Mannor of Hackney haue likewise sithence the sayd first mencioned Indentures compounded and agreed with Your said Subiect Thomas Lord Wentworth to haue and enioy to them their Heires and Assignes such the same and the like Customes Orders Immunities discharges benefits and Priuiledges of in for and concerning All the Messuages landes Tenements and Hereditaments which they the said Copy-holders and customary Tenants last before named and
euery or any of them respectiuely do now hold claime or enioy by force or pretence of any grant heretofore made by Copy of Court Roll of the said seuerall Mannors or either of them as the said Sir Iohn Iolles and the rest of the said Copyholders being parties or named parties to the said seuerall Indentures their heires and assignes by the intent and true meaning of the said seuerall Indentures Schedules and Decree and of this present Act haue and enioy or are to haue and enioy of in for or concerning their said seuerall Copyhold messuages lands Tenements and Herediraments It may further please Your most excellent Maiesty for the like setling of a continuall peace betweene Your said subiects Thomas Lord Wentworth and the said Sir Thomas Hardresse knight and other the last named Copy-holders aforesaid That it may be further enacted by Your Highnes with the assent of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled And be it enacted by the authority of the same Parliament That aswell the said seuerall Indentures Schedules and Decree and euery of them with such exposition enlargement explanation as aforesaid As also this present Act of Parliament shall extend vnto and comprehend and shall be taken and adiudged to extend vnto and comprehend the said Sir Thomas Hardresse Knight and other Copy-holders aforesaid before mentioned to haue compounded and agreed with the said Lo Wentworth sithence the making of the said first mentioned Indentures for and concerning all the Messuages landes Tenements and Hereditaments which they the said last mencioned Copy-holders or any of them respectiuely do now hold claime or enioy by force or pretence of any grant by copy of Court Roll of the said Mannors or either of them as fully and amply and in as large and beneficiall manner to all intents and purposes as if the same last mentioned Copy-holders and euery of them had beene parties and party to the said seuerall Indentures and either of them and as if their said seuerall Copy-hold Messuages lands Tenements and Hereditaments had beene by apert and presize words conteined or comprised in the said seuerall Indentures Schedules and Decree and in this present Act of Parliament and euery of them And that the said last mentioned Copyholders and euery of them and the heires executors administrators assignes of them and euery of them and all and euery person and persons clayming or which shall claime from by or vnder them or any of them shall and may foreuer heereafter haue take an enioye such the like and the same benefite profit and aduantage by the sayd seuerall Indentures Schedules and Decree of for and concerning all and euery the said Messuages and Premises which they and euery or any of them respectiuely doe hold claime or enioy by force or pretence of any graunt by Copy of Court Roll of the sayd Mannors or either of them and as fully and amply as the sayd parties to the sayd seuerall Indentures their Heires and Assignes by the intent and true meaning of the sayd seuerall Indentures Se edules and Decree and of this present Act may haue take or enioy or are or ought to haue take or enioy Prouided allwayes that this Act or any None but those who haue compounded shall haue benefit by this Act. thing therein conteyned shall not extend or be any wise construed or expounded to extend to any Copy-holders other then such as are named parties to the sayd first recited Indentures and the Heires Executors Administrators and Assignes of euery of them and all and euery person and persons lawfully claiming or which shall claime from by or vnder them or any of them And other then such Copy-holders who are before named in this Act and who haue sithence compounded and agreed with the sayd Thom. Lord Wentworth as is aforesayd and their Heyres Executors Administrators or Assignes and all and euery person and persons lawfully clayming or which shall clayme from by or vnder them or any of them Neither shall this Act extend to Nâ—â— they but for the Lands c for which they compounded any copyhold messuages Cottages landes tenements or Hereditaments other then such whereof the sayd Copyholders or others clayming vnder them were respectiuely seized or possessed at the times of their sayd seuerall and respectiue agreements for or concerning the same with the said Lord or now are vnder the sayd agreements seized or possessed as aforesaid But this Acte shall extend to all euery the Copy-hold messuages Cottages lands Tenements and Hereditaments wherof the sayd Copy-holders or any others clayming vnder them were respectiuely seized or possessed at the times of these seuerall and respectiue agreements for or concerning the premises with the sayd Lord or now are vnder the sayd agreements seized or possessed as aforesaid Sauing Neuerthelesse to Your Highnes Sauing to the K. all other their Perticular rights Your Heyres and Successors and to all and euery person and persons bodyes Politique and Corporate their Heires and Successors other then the said Lord Wentworth his Heires and Assignes and all and euery person and Persons lawfully clayming from by or vnder them or any of them and other then the sayd parties to the sayd seuerall Indentures and the said Copyholders before mentioned to haue compounded with the said now Lord Wentworth and euery of them and the Heires and Assignes of euery of them and all and euery person and persons lawfully clayming from by or vnder them or any of them All such actions estates possessions rights Titles Interests Seruices Rents and Demaunds Profitts commodities and aduantatages whatsoeuer as they or any of them haue shall may or ought to haue of in to or out of all or any of the Premisses in such and the same estate degree plight manner and forme to all intents and purposes as if this Acte had neuer ben had or made The Contents of this Act. Leases may bee let for thirty one yeares and foure monethes from the making without forfeiture Pag. 77. But the Leases shall bee voide if the prescribed rule be not obserued 79. The Indentures of the twentieth and thirtieth of Iune Anno 15. Iacobi Regis with the Schedules and the Decree in Chauncery with the present explanation of the thirty eight article are all enacted to stand firme for euer 79. Those which haue compounded since the first Indentures shall inioy the like benefit as the former 80. None but those who haue compounded shall reape any benefit by this Act. 84. Nor they but only for the Lands c for which they haue compounded 85. Sauing to Kings Maiestie and all others their particular rights 85. An Alphabeticall Table of the names of the Copyhold Tenants which haue compounded since the first Indentures and are inabled by this Act to reape the like benefit with the former A Richard Alsop B Iohn Bigate Giles de Bude Richard Bradley Edward Burley Daniell Bassano C Richard Catcher sonne oâ— Tho Catcher monier Iohn Crane Constance Clarckes Samuell Crowther William Chappell Thomas Chapman and Ioane his wife D. Thomas Denham Thomas Damport Gent. William Doue Gent. and Anne his wife E. Griffin Ellis G. Mathew Graues Iohn Gale Gent. Cornelius Godfrey William Gale Gent. H. Sir Thomas Hardresse K. Elizabeth Hide Dorothie Hide Sara Hill Iohn Hodgson I. Thomas Ieffery Henry Iohnson Brewer Phillip Ioice and Elizabeth his wife K. Robert Keale Gent. L. William Lock M. Michaell Merrioll N. George Needham P. Thomas Pynnock Giles Patricke and Sibell his wife Peter Piers his heires Thomas Paramore Esqu Richard Paramore Willi Phillips Mariner Christopher Potkin Iohn Pease R. Anne Ryland Iohn Robotham Gent. Iohn Robinson Helkiah Reade S. Mary Symonson William Speering George Speering George Smith Gent. T Mary Tinestey Ioseph Thornton Beniamin Thornton Tobias Thornton Thomas Thornton Thomas Thredder V Iohn Vassoll W Iohn Wright Butcher Walter Whiting Mariner Thomas Wilson Gent Katherine his wife Walter Whiting Humphfry Westwood Felix Wilson Gent and Anne his wife Arthur Wingham Richard Wingham Thomas Wingham her sonnes FINIS
act of Parliament to be good and effectuall in law for the purposes aforesaid Then his Lordship will at all times after the end of the said first Session of the next Parliament vpon reasonable request and at the costs of the tennants whom it shall concerne their heires or assignes make doe and execute such reasonable acts deuises and assurances in the law whereby the said Copyholders their heires or assignes respectiuely shall hold and enioy their and euery of their said copyhold messuages houses lands tenements cottages and hereditaments with the like wayes easements commons and commodities as are thereto now belonging or now therewith vsed or enioyed And the free-hold and inheritance thereof respectiuely to them and to their respectiue heires and assignes for euer To be holden of such of the same Mannors whereof the same is now holden in free and common Socage for and vnder the seuerall and respectiue yeerely rents for all seruices and demands as they or any of them doe now seuerally and respectiuely pay for the same as by them or their councell learned shall be reasonably deuised and required Item That the said Copyhold tenants their heires and assignes respectiuely shall and may For enioying the Common for euer hereafter without any let impediment interruption deniall or contradiction of his Lordship his heires or assignes or any claiming vnder the said Henry Lo Wentworth deceased not onely during the time they shall be Copyholders but also afterwards when they shall haue obtained the free-hold and inheritance of their seuerall and respectiue Copy-holds peaceably hold and enioy such and the like common of pasture and in such manner in all the Commons Masts and commonable places of the said Mannors as they or any of them heretofore haue had vsed held taken or enioyed or might lawfully haue taken or enioyed The Tennants not compounding are excepted from al benefit hereby Neuerthelesse it is agreed that neither the said Indenture and Schedules nor any couenant therein contained shall in any wise extend or enure to the benefit or aduantage of any other Copyhold tenants of the said Mannors other then the said Copyhold tennants named parties to the said Indentures their heires and assignes and that for such and the same lands tenements cottages and hereditaments with The enrolling of the deed the appurtenances onely as they or any of them now hold or claime to hold by copie of Court Roll of the said Mannors or one of them as by the said Indenture wherevnto relation be And where it is left had more plainely and at large appeareth Memorandum That the said Indenture of the twentieth of Iune together with a duplicate therof were acknowledged by the said Tho Lo Wentworth the 21. day of Iuly 1617. before Sir Mathew Carew Knight to be enrolled and is enrolled in the Chauncerie accordingly The one part of which Indentures is left in the custody of the company of Goldsmiths in the Citie of London And the other in the custody of the Brethren of the Trinitie house at Ratcliffe In trust and to the vse of the said Copyhold tenants named parties to the said Indentures The ninth day of Iuly 1617. in the said fifteenth A statute of 12000. pound for performāce of couenants yeare of his Maiesties raigne to the said Tho Lo Wentworth acknowledged a Statute of the summe of twelue thousand pounds of lawfull money of England vnto Alexander Prescot and Iohn Gore Aldermen Thomas Iones common Sergeant of London Francis Fulner and Ceorge Whitemore Esquires and Robert Mildmay Grocer In trust for and to the vse of the vse of the Copyholders warned in the said Indentures and thereof is a defesance by Indenture The Defeasance dated the same day to this effect viz. That if the said Tho Lo Wentworth doe performe the couenants and agreements contained in the aforesaid Indenture of the twentieth of Iune Then the same Statute to be void and that the said Conusees shall deliuer vp the same Statute to the said Tho Lo Wentworth his heyres executors administrators or assignes so soone as the said act of Parliament shal be procured according to the intent and true meaning of the said recited Indenture To this end the Where it is left said Statute and Defeazance are left in the Chamber of the Citie of London to be kept in such sort as that the said Conusees may haue the same to be deliuered according to their couenant And the Chamberlaine of the said Citie hath charged himselfe with the receipt thereof by order of the Court of the Lord Mayor Aldermen bearing date the two twentieth day of Iuly 1617. Leman Mayor Fish Chamberlayne In Trinitie Terme in the said fifteenth yeare of The proceedings in the Chauncery his Maiesties raigne to a Bill of complaint was by the Copyholders named parties to the the said Indenture of the twentieth of Iune exhibited against the said Tho Lo Wentworth in his Maiesties high Court of Chancerie whereto the said Tho Lo Wentworth did appeare and by his answere confessed the contents of the said bill to be true Wherevpon a perfect Decree with the free consent and agreement of the The Decree said Tho Lo Wentworth bearing date the two and twentieth day of Iuly in the said fifteenth yeare of the raigne of our Soueraigne Lord King Iames was obtained And by the same the said free customes orders immunities c. and all and whatsoeuer contained in the said Indenture of the twentieth of Iune and the Schedules vnto the same Indenture annexed are for euer established and confirmed The said Decree is likewise there enrolled The true copie of the said Schedules followeth 14 SCHEDVLES containing the free Customes Orders Immunities Discharges Benefits and priuiledges of the Mannors of Stepney alias Stebunhuth and Hackney in the County of Middlesex agreed vnto the approued allowed and ratified as well by the Right Honorable Thomas Lord Wentworth Lord of the said Mannors as also by his Lordships Copyhold or customary Tennants or reputed Copy-holds or customary Tenants of the said Mannors or of either of them named parties to the Indenture whereunto those Schedules are annexed By which all and euery the same Copyholders or customarie Tenants their and euery of their heyres and assignes are to hold vse and enioy inherit alien demise or dispose all and euery or any the Lands Messuages Tenements Cottages and Hereditaments which they euery or any of them respectiuely doe hold claime or enioy by force or pretext of any grant heretofore made by the Copy of Court Roll of the said Mannors or either of them the day of the date of the said Indentures That is to say the twentieth day of Iune in the yeeres of the raigne of our Soueraigne Lord Iames by the grace of God of England France and Ireland King defender of the faith c. the fifteenth and of Scotland the fiftieth IN primis by the customes of the said Mannors These copy-holds are of
estate not exceeding Thirty and one yeares and foure momonethes in possession from the time of the making of any such grant or demise as to theÌ„ and euery or any of them respectiuely shall be thought fit or necessary without any forfeiture of estate seizure claime disturbance deniall or impeachment of the said Thomas Lo Wentworth his heires or assignes or any of his or their officers So allwayes that such grants lease and leases so to be made be at the first or second generall court for the Mannor whereof the landes or tenements so happening to be granted leased or demised are parcell to be holden next after the making thereof be published in open Court of that Mannor before the Homage there and a Remembrance thereof to be required to be made in the Rolles of the same court for the date terme and quantity of lands cottages or tenements so granted leased or demised Which remembrance the said Thomas Lord Wentworth couenanteth and granteth for him his heires assignes to with the said Sir Iohn Iolles and all other the said persons named parties to these presents and their and euery of their heires and assignes vpon the tender of a certainty thereof in writing to the Steward or Deputy Steward of that mannor for the time then being together with six pence of lawfull money of England for the entring thereof shall be in the court rolles of that Mannor duly and in conuenient time and without delay inrolled and a note thereof deliuered by the Steward for the time being or his Deputy to the party so leasing or any for him without any other consideration fee or reward to be giuen or paid for the same And in the said Schedules one other article Recitall of the 38 article see Pag 39. to the like effect is conteyned in these wordes following Item if any person or persons be disposed to let his or their customary lands or tenements to any other person or persons and to their executors and assignes for the terme of one and thirty yeares or lesse the same person or persons haue and shall haue full power and authority to set or let to farme his or their copy-hold landes or tenements to any person or persons their executors administrators and assignes for the terme of one and thirty yeares and foure monethes or lesse in possession from the time of the making there of by writing without any licence to him or them to be granted and without paying any fine to the Lord or incurring any forfeiture or seizure of or for the same So as the same lease doe not exceed one and thirty yeares and foure monethes from the time of the making thereof But such lease is and ought to be presented to the Homage of the Mannor whereof the landes or tenements so leased are held within one yeare after the making thereof Or else the same lease so made and not presented as is aforesaid shall bee void of none effect as in and by the said Indentures and Schedules appeareth The intent and true meaning of which said Indentures The intent of the Clause and Article was to make good all leases not exceeding 31. yeares and 4. monethes and of all and euery the said parties thereunto was and now is That the said clauses and articles should shall be taken and construed to be to confirme allow and make good all euery leases and grants made and to be made and entred as aforesaid although any such lease or grant leases or grants hath or haue beene or shall be made or limited to commence or beginne from after or at any day or time after the making or date thereof so as the whole terme granted or to be granted in or by such lease or grant leases or grants together with the time incurred or to to incurre from the day of the date or making thereof vntill the day or time limited or to be limited for the beginning or commencement thereof do not exceed Thirty and one yeares and foure monethes in the whole And the said seuerall limitations and prouisions conteyned in the said first recited clause or article for or concerning such publishing of the said leases or grants and such requiring of a remembrance thereof to be made in the said rolles and such tender of the Certainty thereof inwriting and of the said six pence for the entry thereof as in and by the same clause or article is prescribed or metioned And the said limitation or prouision conteyned in the said last recited clause or article for or concerning such presenting of such leases to the said Homage as in and by the same last recited clause or article is prescribed or mentioned were inserted into the sayd seuerall clauses or articles respectiuely as is aforesaid To the onely intent And to prevent frauds c. and purpose to preuent frauds to be vsed by any Copy-holders of the said Mannors or either of them in letting his or their Copy-hold lands or tenements for yeares at a small rent or otherwise and afterwardes surrendring the same to the vse of some other person or persons for money or other considerations as if it were in possession and not charged with any such Lease or grant But not with any purpose that the neglect or omission of publishing any such Lease or But not to giue any forfeictur to the Lord for neglect grant in the court of the said Mannors or either of them or of any request to be made for any such remembrance thereof to be made in the Rolles of the said Court or of the tendring of a certainty of any such lease in writing to the said Steward or Deputy Steward of any of the said Mannors or of the said six pence for entry thereof or of the presenting thereof to the sayd Homage as in and by the said recited clauses or articles is limited or mentioned should giue or be any cause of forfeiture or seizure of any of the said copyhold premisses so to be leased or granted to the Lord of the said Mannors or either of them for the time being but onely to make such Leases and Grantes for and in respect of such neglect or omission as is aforesaid vtterly voyd of no eâ—â—ect which said intent true meaning of the said Indentures and of the said parties thereunto is testified agreed and declared in and by certaine other Indentures made betweene the said parties to the said first recited Indentures and bearing date the last day of The Indentures of the 30 of Iune Iune in the said Fifteenth yeare of your Maiesties Raigne May it therefore please Your most excellent Maiesty at the humble suite of your said subiects and for the setling of perpetuaâ—l peace and quietnesse amongst them in and concerning the premisses That it may be enacted by your highnesse with the assent of the Lordes spirituall and temporall and the commons in this present Parliament Assembled and be it enacted by the Authority of