To the Right honorable Sr ffrancis Bacon Knight
Lord Channcellor of England
1. Humble manner Complayning sheweth vnto yor good Lopp yor Orators Bonham Norton of London Esquire and John Bill citizen and Stacioner of London That Whereas Robert Barker Esquire late printer to the Kinge Matie that nowe is heretofore that is to saye about Iune in the twelveth yeare of his Maties Raigne became |
2. dulie indebted vnto yor said Orator Bonham Norton the some of Three hundred and Three score poundes of lawfull money of England And whereas also yor said Orators Bonham Norton and John Bill at the speciall request and desire and for the meene and proper debt and cause of the said Robert Barker by and all other |
3. Obligacõn bearing date on or about the seaventh day of Iune in the said Twelveth yeare of his Maties Raigne became ioyntlie and severallie bound and obliged togeather wth the said Robert Barker vnto Sr William Craven Knight citizon and Alderman of London [hole] the some of Twoe Thousand |
4. and ffyve hundred poundes of lawfull money of England wth condicon endorsed for payement to the said Sr William Craven his Executors or Assignes of the somme of One Thousand ffiue hundred Three score and fiffteene poundes of like money on a day then [hole] now long since last past And |
5. [hole] said Obligacõn and Condicõn more planelie and at large it doth and may appeare ffor securitie and Assurance to be had and made to yor said Orators & their Executors and Administrators aswell of and for the payement of the said [2 words illegible] hundred and Three ?score ?in debt |
6. [hole] Also for their indempnitie and saving harmelesse of for, from and concerning the said Obligacõn and of and from all Accõns suits Iudgements Execucõns damages losses and demaundes by reason or meanes of the said Obligacõn to growe or [2 words illegible] diverse and sundry ther good and |
7. reasonable Causes and Consideracõns him the said Robert Barker moving he the said Robert Barker by Indenture of Lease vnder his hand and Seale bearing date on or about the Nynth day of the said Moneth of Iune in the said Twelueth yeare of his Maiesties Raigne did demise graunt |
8. to ffarme lett vnto yor said Orators All that the Mannor of Sudeley also Sudley also Southley also Soudley wth the rights members and appurtenances thereof in the County of Bucks And all and singuler the ffreeholds Messuages Landes Tenements and hereditaments with this and euery of |
9. their appurtenances then or late in the seuerall tenures or occupacõns of the said Robert Barker Morris Hale Edward Sarr Thomas Berrington John Reade William Reade [scribal space] Herbert Widdow, Thomas Henden Widdow Capell John Standiche [scribal space] helpen by or any of it |
10. And all and singuler other ffreehold Messuages Landes Tenements and hereditaments wth the appurtenances wch the said Robert Barker and Christopher Barker Esquire his late ffather deceased or either of them did heretofor buy or purchase to them or either of them and their heires of them |
11. or of either of them of or from Thomas Crane gent Garret Hankinson Nicholas Hankinson John Reade John Hall then deceased Roger Hall and John Hall his Sonnes Richard Hall William Springall Edmond Tarkwell also Cobham and Henry Chandler or Margaret his wife or any of them |
12. situated and being in the parishes of Dochett also Dachet also Datchet Nr Wryardsbury also Wraysbury Vpton ffarneham Royall Burneham also West Burneham and Stock also Stoke or any of them in the said County of Bucks and all and singular the ffrehold Messuages [word illegible] ê
13. buildinge Tofts Cottages Dovehouses barnes Stables Orchards gardens Lands Tenements Meadowes Leasowes pastures sheepgates ffouldcoarses or foldinge for sheepe Commons Common of pasture Wastes ffurrers heathes Moores Marishes Woods Vnder ?woods Waters ffishing [word illegible] |
14. ffishepondes Milles Streames ffranchises Iurisdiccõns Rights Royalties Comodities advantages prehemynences and hereditaments what soever wth thappurtenances to the said Mannor Messuages or Tenements or any of them belonging or in any wise appurtaining or as part ?parcell |
15. or monies thereof or of any of them then or at any tyme thentofore wthin the space of Sixe yeares then past accepted reputed taken knowne vsed occupied or enioyed as part parcell or member thereof or of any of them sett lying and being in the Townes parishes [word illegible] |
16. hamlet Territories and ffeildes of Dachet Wryardsbury Vpton ffarneham Royall Burneham and Stoke afore said or any of them in the said County of Bucks And the Revercõn and Revercõns remainder and remainders of the premisses and of every part thereof And |
17. all other the Mannors Messuanges Landes Tenements and hereditaments wch thappurtenances of the said Robert Barker situate lying and being in the said Townes fields parishes or presincts aforesaid or elswhere in the said County of [word illegible] to haue and to hold the said |
18. Mannors Messuages Landes Tenements Rents Revercõns services and all and singuler the premisses in or by the said Indenture of Lease devised or mencõned to be devised wth thappurtenances to yor said Orators their Executors Administrators or assigne the said somme of one thowsand ffor |
19. the making of the said Lease vnto the end and terme of Two hundred yeares from thence next ensueing and fully to be Compleate and ended vnder the yearlie Rent of Twelue pence of lawfull money of England payable at the ffeast of the Birth of our Lord God yearlie or within one |
20. quarter of a yeare then next following yf it be lawfully demaunded Vpon Condicõn neverthelesse That yf the said Robert Barker his heires Executors or Administrators did not only pay or cause to be paid to yor said Orator Bonham Norton his Executors Administrators or Assignees |
21. the said somme of Three hundred and Three score poundes on the Twentith day of October next ensueing the date of the said Indenture of Lease But also pay or cause to be paid to the said Sr William Craven his Executors Administrators or Assignes the said somme of One thowsand ffive |
22. hundred Three score and ffifteene poundes on the Twentith day of December next ensueing the date of the said Lease At the howse of the said Sr Wm scituate in Watling street London for and in discharge and making voyd and frustrate of the said recited Obligacõn [word illegible] |
23. then the Lease demise and graunt vse and estate and terme should cease determine and be vtterly voyd and of nowe effect As by the said Indenture of Lease yf yor Orators had the same to shewe more plainelie and at large it would appeare And wheras yor said |
24. Orators at the speciall request and desire and for the meere and proper debte and cause of the said Robert Barker by one other Obligacõn bearing date in or about ffebruary in the said Twelveth yeare of the Raigne of or said Sovereign Lord James King and |
25. Maties that nowe is did become bound and obliged togeather wth the said Robert Barker vnto Robert Banckworth of London Scrivenor in the some of One thowsand and ffiue hundred poundes of lawfull money of England wth Condicon or endorsed |
26. the some of One Thowsand Threescore and Sixe poundes Thirteene shillinges and ffoure pence of like lawfull money of England at a certaine day then to come and nowe also long scithence past At the then dwelling house of the said Robert Banckworth in Bowe Lane London |
27. As by the said Obligacõn and Condicõn nowe plainelie may appeare ffor securitie and assurance to be had and made to yor said Orators and either of them for their indempnitie and saving harmeles of for and concerning wch said last mencõned Obligacõn |
28. and all sommes of money therein conteyned or mencõned the said Robert Barker by Indenture of Lease vnder his hand and Seale bearing date on or about the Eighteenth day of ffebrruary in the said Twelueth yeare of his Maties Raigne did demise [2 words illegible] |
29. farme lett vnto yor Orators All that the Mannor or Cheife Mansion howse of Tyle place also Tyles place or the Mannor Of Tyles place wthall the right members and appurtenances thereof whatsoever in the Counties of Berks and ?Surrie or either of And ?to |
30. all and singuler the Messuages Landes Tenements Meadowes pastures ffeedinge woods vnderwoods Commons Rents Revercõns services and hereditaments whatsoever scituate lying being Coming growing or renewing in Old Windsor Stowe Windsor and |
31. Egham or any of them in the Countyes of Berks Bucks and Surrie or any of them wch the said Robert Barker late had and purchased to him and his heires of or from Edward Morley of the Inner Temple London gent and Katherine his wife or in thereof [2 words illegible] |
32. hould the said Mannor or Capitall Mansion howse and all and singuler other the premisses therein mencõned to be demised wth thappurtenances to yor said Orators their Executors administrators and from the Twentieth day of October next ensuing the date [word illegible] |
33. last mencõned Indenture of Lease vnto the end and terme of ffyue hundred yeares from thence next ensueing and fully to be compleate and ended wthout ympeachement of Wast vnder the yearlie Rent of or pepper Corne only payable at the ffeast of the Birth of or |
34. Lord God onlie Or wthin one quarter of a yeare then next following (yf it be lawfully demaunded) And for the further and more better assuring and sure having holding and and enioyeing of the said Mannor Messuages Lanes Tenements hereditaments [2 words illegible] |
35. to and by yor said Orators their executors administrators and Assignes for and during the said terme of ffyve hundred yeares by and vnder the said yearlie Rent of one pepper Corne the said Robert Barker for him his heires executors and Administrators [2 words illegible] |
36. last mencõned Indenture of Lease Covenant and graunt to and wth yor said Orators and either of them their and either of their Executors Administrators and Assignes That he the said Robert Barker before the laste daye of Easter Terme then next ensuing [word illegible] |
37. Iustices of the Kinges Maties Court of Common plees should and would knowledge and levy to yor said Orators or the survivor of them One ffyne sur conuyance de droyt comerceo wch wth proclamacõns therevpon after to be had according to the Lawes [2 words illegible] |
38. made and provyded Of the said Mannor Messuages Landes Tenements and all and singuler the premisses by the said last mencõned Indenture of Lease demised By such name names and quanteties of Acres and in such manner and forme As by yor said Orators or either of them [word illegible] |
39. of their Counsell learned in the Lawes of this Realme should be lawfully and reasonably devised or advised And that the said ffyne so to be levyed should be and should be adiudged deemed esteemed and taken to be To the vse and behoufe of yor said Orators their Executors administrators and |
40. Assignes for and during the terme of ffyue hundred yeares by and vnder the said yearlie Rent of one pepper Corne Vpon Condicõn Neverthelesse That yf the said Robert Barker his heires executors or administrators did or should on the Twentith day of October [conjectural: next] |
41. ensueing at the said dwelling howse of the said Robert pay or cause to be paid to the said Robert Banckwoorth his Executors Administrators or Assignes the said somme of One Thowsand Three score and sixe poundes Thirteene shillinges and ffoure pence for and in discharge [2 words illegible] |
42. voyd and frustrate of the said recited Obligacõn to the said Robert Banckworth made as aforesaid And did also from time to time and at all tymes from thenceforth well and sufficientlie saue and keepe harmelesse yor said Orators and either of them [4 words illegible] |
43. heires Executors and Administrators against all persones whatsoever of for and concerning the said last mencõned Obligacõn and of and from all and singuler accõns suits Iudgements Execucõns damages losses hinderaunces and demandes whatsoever by reason or [2 words illegible] |
44. the said last mencõned Oblicacõn to growe or arrise That then the said Lease demise and graunt vse estate and terme of yeares in or by the said last mencõned Indenture of Lease conteyned or made should be vtterly void frustrate and of nowe effect as by the said last [2 words illegible] |
45. mencõned Indenture of Lease of yor Orators had the same to shewe whereunto for more certaintie relacõn being had more plainelie and at large it would also appeare Which said some of Three hundred and Three score poundes or anie part thereof [2 words illegible] |
46. satisffied vnto yor said Orator Bonham Norton at the day and time lymitted by the said first mencõned Indenture of Lease for the payement thereof or at anie time sithence but the same doth still remaine vnpaid Neither more the said seuerall sommes of One thowsand and |
47. Three score and ffifteene poundes and One Thowsand Three score and sixe poundes Thirteene shillinges and ffoure pence or either of them or any part or parcell of them or either of them satisffied or paid by the said Robert Barker to the said Sr William Craven [3 words illegible] |
48. Banckworth respectivelie at the dayes and times limitted by the said seuerall Obligacõns for the paiement of the same as aforesaid nor at anie time sithence but the same also and either of them and every part thereof due still remaine vnpaid By reason [2 words illegible] |
49. seuerall Oblicacõns become foreited and yor said Orators being lyable to the same are daylie threatened by the said Sr William Craven and Robert Banckworth to be sued vpon the said seuerall Obligacõns whereby the whole penalties of the same Obligacõns [2 words illegible] |
50. and recovered against yor said Orators Whereupon yor said Orators repayred to the said Robert Barker and requested him to satisffie the said severall sommes whereby yor said Orators might be discharged of and from the said severall Obligacõns But the said Robert [2 words illegible] |
51. so to doe and thereuon yor said Orators thincking to releeiue themselues in the premisses entered into the said Mannors Lands and premisses to them devised by the said Two seuerall Indentures of Lease as aforesaid and were and are thereof lawfully possessed |
52. and are and ought to receave the Rents yssues and proffitts thereof accordinglie But for it is may it please yor good Lopp That yor said Orators having by casuall meanes lost the said Two seuerally Indentures of Lease wch being come to the hands of the said Robert Barker [2 words illegible] |
53. Knowing that wthout levying of the said ffyne yor said Orators can haue noe good estate in the said Mannors of Tyle place and other the premisses by the said last mencõned Indenture of Lease to them devised he the said Robert Barker doth not only [3 words illegible] |
54. said ffyne of the said Mannor and premisses vnto yor said Orators But also refuseth to pay or satisfie vnto yor said Orator Bonham Norton the said somme of Three hundred and Three score poundes or to satisfie and pay vnto the said Sr Wm Craven [3 words illegible] |
55. the said seuerall sommes to them due and payeable or to discharge yor Orators of and from the same Obligacõns as aforesaid notwthstanding he hath by yor Orators in gentle and frendlie manner byn thereunto often requested and desired And the said [2 words illegible] |
56. not therewthall contented hath of late practised and Combined wth one Edward Sares Thomas Berrington John Drewe and Rowland Leake being the present Tennants of the said Mannors Landes and premisses so demised to yor said Orator [2 words illegible] |
57. Indentures of Lease as aforesaid to defraude and defeate yor said Orators of the said Mannors Landes and premisses and of the Rents and proffitts due and payable for the same And by such practise and Combinacõn they the said Robert Barker [3 words illegible] |
58. Thomas Berrington John Drewe and Rowland Leake haue made and contrived to themselues and other persons to their vse diuerse and sundry secret estates of the said premisses and refuse and deny to attoune or become Tennants vnto yor said Orator [2 words illegible] |
59. vnto yor said Orators or other of them for the Land Tenements and premisses by them seuerally enioyed the Rents and proffitts by them seuerally due for the same or to discover or make knowne vnto yor said Orators what estate or estates they [2 words illegible] |
60. haue in the Lands and premisses by them seuerally held and enioyed or what estate or estates haue bine made or contrived by them the said Robert Barker Edward Sares Thomas Berrinton John Drewe and Rowland Leake [7 words illegible] |
61. person or persons of the premisses or any part thereof or what yearlie Rents or sommes of money they and every of them pay for the said premisses so by them seuerallie held and enioyed notwthstanding they and every of them haue bin by yor said Orators [word illegible] |
62. either of them diuerse and sundry times in gentle and frendlie manner thereunto required In tender consideration whereof and forasmuch as yor said Orator having by casuall meanes lost the said seuerall Indentures of Lease as aforesaid [3 words illegible] |
63. by the first cause of the Common Lawes to compell the said Robert Barker to knowledge and levye the said ffyne of the said Mannor of Tyle place and other the premisses by the said last recited Indenture of Lease demised according to that [word illegible] value of the said |
64. Indenture or to compell the said Robert Barker Edward Sares Thomas Berrington John Drewe and Rowland Leake to discover what estate or estates are contrived by them or any of them of the premisses or any part thereof to and person or persons [3 words illegible] |
65. and become Tennants and to pay and satisfye vnto yor said Orators the Rents and proffitts due and payeable for the Lands and premisses by them or their Assignes seuerally held and enioyed as aforesaid but only in equitie before yor Lopp And [2 words illegible] |
66. therefore the said Robert Barker Edward Sares Thomas Berrington John Drewe and Rowland Leake may Answer the premisses vpon their oathes and therein set forth what Leases or estates nowe at anie time made to them and every of them of the said [word illegible] |
67. <and every> anie part thereof by the said Robert Barker and by them or any of them to any person or persons whatsoever and what Rents were or are reserved vpon every such Lease and estate to thowse such further order may be taken for yor Ortators reliefe in these [2 words illegible] |
68. to yor Lopp shall seeme agreeable wth right equitie and good Cause and May it please yor good Lopp to graunt vnto yor said Ortors his Maties most gracious writt of Subpena to be directed to the said Robert Barker Edward Sares Thomas Berrington |
69. John Drewe and Rowland Leake Comanding their and every of them thereby at a certaine day and vnder a certaine paine therein to be limitted to be and personally to appeare before yor good Lopp in his Maties [word illegible] Court of Chancery [word illegible] |
70. then and there to Answer the premisses vpon their Corporall oathes and Further to stand to and abide such order and direccõn therein as to yor Lopp shall seeme fitt And yor said Orators as in duty bound [4 words illegible] |
71. long and happy life wth much increase of honor.
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