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
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
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
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
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