ITem, the Rents of all the Tenants, both Free-holders and Copy-holders, which hold any Messuages, Cottages, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments of the said Mannors, or of either of them, are yeerely payable only at the Feast of Saint Michael the Arch-Angell, to the Lord and his Heires: the same to be collected by the Reeves of the said Mannors (severally and respectively to be yeerely chosen, as hereafter is expressed) or their Deputies. And all and every the said customary Copy-hold Tenants, to pay the severall yeerely Rents, now yeerely due & payable for their severall Copy-holds. And if any of the said Copy-holds, An intire Quit-rent come into severall hands, shall be apportioned. for which any intire Quit-rent is now paid, shall hereafter come into severall hands, the Rent thereof shall then bee apportioned by the Homage, at the Court of the Mannor whereof the same are holden; and so much only as by the Homage shall bee appointed to be paid (pro rata) shall be paid to the Lord for the time being.

ITem, all and every Copy-hold Tenant of the said Mannors, or either of them, which now be, or hereafter for the time being shall bee, ought to appeare yeerely at two severall generall Courts holden for the Mannor, whereof his Lands or Tenements are holden, upon 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 whereof their Lands are holden, under the number of eighteene, as shall be (for that purpose) especially warned thereunto by the Reeve, or his sufficient Deputy for the time being. And the said Tenants shall doe their suits and services according to their tenures; except they bee essoined, licensed, or have some other lawfull excuse, upon the paine hereafter following.The two generall Courts yee rely held. Which two generall Courts have beene commonly kept (and are to be kept yeerely) the one of them on Tuesday, the ninth day after Easter day; and the other, about the Feast of Saint Andrew the Apostle, upon reasonable warning: That is to say, in the Churches and Chappels within the said Mannors, openly upon the Sunday sevennight, or Sunday fortnight, before the day of such Courts to be holden.

ITem, if any Tenant bee summoned to appeare at any set Court, or Courts to bee holden within the said Mannors, or in any of them, and doth appeare upon the said summons, he ought, and is to have for his paines foure pence, and his dinner, or eight pence and no dinner; which ought and is to be paid (by the said custome) by such person or persons, who shall bee the cause that any such Tenants doe appeare for his or their matter: So it bee not any matter or cause that concerneth an enquiry or presentment to be made, only for the Lord for the time being, his Heiros and Assignes.

ITem, the Copy-hold Tenants of the said Mannors, and of either of them, ought to have every of them like allowance, upon every view by them to bee made, and upon every partition by them to bee made, or upon other summon to appeare betwixt Tenant and Tenant, when they be appointed thereunto by precept from the Steward of the said Mannors, or of either of them for the time being, or by his sufficient Deputy.

THe Homage of the Court of the said Mannors, or of any of them, may appoint six or seven Tenants, upon 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 Copy-hold Tenements, which Tenants shall (after the said Court) view the same Incroachment, Annoyance, and Impediment, or place whereof any such complaint shall be made. And thereupon, 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 quality of the offence.

ITem, the Homage of either of the said Mannors, are to make presentment at every generall Court to be holden for the said Manors, or of either of them, of all the Customary or Copy-hold Tenants, that they shall know shall be deceased after the Court then last past, or at any time before the said Court, whose deaths were not then found and presented, and that held any Copy-hold, or Customary, or reputed Copy-hold or Customary Lands or Tenements of the said Mannors, or of either of them. And also (as neere as they can) present what Lands every of them died seized of, and of what estate, and Cuſtomes and Orders. and when he died, 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 Heires shall then be of, as neere as they can.

ITem, the Homage likewise ought to present the deaths of the Free-holders, and when they dyed, and who be their next heire or heires, and 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 neer as they can: To the intent the Lord may have his reliefe, which is but the value of one yeeres quit-rent, of the Tenements holden of the said Mannors, or of either of them by Socage tenure.

IF the Homage at any of the said Courts of either of the said Mannors, shall not know who is next heire or heires to any of the said customary Tenants so dying seized, when they shall make their presentments; that then they shall make their presentment so accordingly, and then upon 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 bee made, shall cause a Proclamation to bee made in open Court, to the intent every such heire or heires may have knowledge to come, and take up the Lands and Tenements of his or their Ancestours, and so the Steward or his Deputy shall cause a Proclamation to be made,Three Proclamations shall bee made in two yeeres space, for the heire to take knowledge, &c. from generall Court to generall Court, untill three open and publike Proclamations be made in full Court, at three generall Courts: which generall Courts (by the said custome) are used to be holden commonly one halfe yeere after another, or thereabout: So that from the presentment made by the said homage, of the dying seized of the said last Tenant, unto the last Proclamation, shall be fully two yeeres.

And if there shall come no heire 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 shall bee made, to male his or their claime, and prove himselfe, or themselves to the Homage of the Court, in such sort as they or the greater part of them shall allow of, to be the next heire or heires of the whole blood to the said Tenant deceased, or to have title to the Lands and Tenements, nor to shew and prove, as aforesaid, who is or oughtHackney to be next heire or heires of the whole blood to the said Tenant deceased,If no heire or heires appeare, the Lord may then seize the Land. or next heire or heires expectant, upon any estate determined: Then the Lord of 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 be made, seize the Lands and Tenements, which were the said persons so dying seized, whose next heire or heires, or such as shall have title thereunto cannot bee found, or shall not come and make his or their claime and proofe as aforesaid. And the same L. then to take the issues and profits thereof to his owne use,The Lord may keepe it, untill a an heire doe come. untill such person or persons come, that shall prove him or them next heire or heires to the said person or persons so dying seized.If no heire come with in three yeeres after the 3. Proclamation, then the Land shall escheat to the Lord. And if none shall come in within three yeeres next after the third and last Proclamation made as aforesaid, that shall and can convey and prove him or them to be next heire or heires of the whole blood, or shew or prove, who is or ought to be next heire or heires, or to have title as next in Remainder or or Reversion as aforesaid; that the said Lands and Tenements be forfeited, or shall escheat unto the Lord of the said Mannor or Mannors for the time being.

Except,1. Except women covert baron. that if the said Land and Tenements shall or ought immediately to descend, remaine, revert, come to any woman Covert,2. Infants within age▪ or Infant within the age of one and twenty yeeres, or to any person or persons being in prison,3. Prisoners. or any Qqqper Cuſtomes and Orders. person or persons not of Sanae memoriae, 4. Persons Non sanae memoriae. or that shall not be within the Realme at the time of the death of the said last Tenant dying so seized,5. Persons out of the Realme. or at the time of the first, second or third Proclamation to be made as aforesaid, that there, in every such case, the Lord (for the time being) shall have but the profits of the said Lands and Tenements, untill such persons, or his, her or their heire or heires shall come and make their claime: So that the said claime be made by the said woman, or her heires,Five yeers limitation to make the claime in. within five yeeres next after the death of her said husband, or by her husband and her selfe during the time of her Coverture: And by such person being within age, or his heires, before he shall or should accomplish his full age of one and twenty yeeres: And by the person of Non sanae memoriae, within five yeeres, next after he shall recover, and be of Sanae memoriae; and by the heire of such person of Non sanae memoriae, within five yeeres next after the death of his said Ancestor, or before: And by the said person that shall so be out of the Realme, or his heires, within five yeeres after he shall returne; or if he shall not returne, within five yeeres after his death: And by the said person or persons in prison, within one whole yeere next after his or their enlargement from such imprisonment.

ITem, in the said Mannors, or either of them, women ought not to have dowers of any customary Lands or Tenements within the Mannors aforesaid, nor any of them: Nor men to have any estate as Tenants, by the courtesie of England.

ITem, if any shall bee seized of any customary Lands or Tenements, holden of the said Mannors, or of either of them, of an estate of Inheritance and shall have two sonnes, or three sonnes, or more: Or having no sonnes, shall have divers daughters: Or having neither sonnes nor daughters, shall have divers Collaterall heires in one neernesse of blood; or that are to make their resort, from those that were of the same neerenesse of blood to the Tenant dying: They shall bee all co-heires to their said Father, Mother, or other Ancestor, touching the said customary Lands and Tenements, according to the custome of Gavelkind.

ITem, if any man or woman die seized (as aforesaid) of any customary lands or Tenements of any state of Inheritance, holden of the said Mannors, or of any of them, and shall have issue two or three sonnes, or more, whereof one or two or more of them shall be married, and have issue in the life of their Father or mother, and shall dye before his or their Father or Mother: Or having no sons, shall have divers daughters, whereof one or more shall be married and have issue, and dye in the life of the Father or Mother: that then the said issue shall inherit, and be co-heire with the said sonne or sonnes, daughter or daughters that shall survive his, her, or their said Father or Mother, that so shall dye seized as is aforesaid; whether the said issue bee male or female, according to the custome of Gavelkind.

ITem, if any person so dying seized as aforesaid, without issue of his body, and having divers Brothers of the whole blood, whereof the one or some of them shall have beene married, and shall have issue, and after issue had, shall dye, before the said Brother dying seized, as aforesaid; that then the issues of the said Brother or Brothers, so dying before him that died seized, as aforesaid, shall joyne and bee co-heire with his Brother or Brothers, that surviveth the Brother that so dyed seized, as aforesaid, whether the said issue bee males or females. But males and females of one belly or womb, canot joyn to be co-heires together: So that the course of descents is to be observed by the said custome, according to the custome and nature of Lands in Gavelkinde.

ITem, by the custome of the said severall Mannors, every Copy-holder of inheritance in fee-simple, may surrender his said Copy-hold Lands and Tenements, or any part or parcell therof unto the Lord, to the use of any person or persons, and to his and their heires for ever, or to his or their heires of his or their bodies, or any otherwise in taile, or for life or lives, or yeeres, or to any person or persons, and his or their heires: To the intent the said Copy-hold Tenant may declare his last Will and Testament upon the same Lands and Tenements,See more in the first Article, and in the 20. and 21. Articles, &c. or to any other use or uses, unlesse it be to any corporation or corporations, or bodies politicke or corporate. And every Copy-holder in taile, or for life, lives 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 Copy-hold 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 Qqq2ſpecified Cuſtomes and Orders. specified, or hereafter ensueth. And all the same persons, to whose use every Surrender shall bee made, are to have their Copies made to hold of the Lord by the Rod, according to the custome of the Mannor, whereof they have beene holden by the Rents and services therefore due and accustomed. Vpon every of which Surrender,The Fines must be entred into the Copies: See Article 29. the Fine and Fines for the same hereafter expressed, is by the said custome to bee paid, and to be entred into the severall Copies, or the Margents of them.

ITem, the Surrender by a woman Covert-baron, being of the age of one and twenty yeeres, made together with her husband, of the Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, whereof she is seized or estated; is, and shall bee a good Surrender of her Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, whereof she is seized and estated: and shall bee a good Surrender of her Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, holden of the said Mannors, or of either of the same: the same Surrender being made in her extremity of sicknesse, or likelihood of death, by the acceptance of the Reeve of the Mannor, whereof the Lands and Tenements so surrendered, are parcell, and his Deputy, or either of them, in the presence of sixe customary Tenants, or by the acceptance of the Headborough, in the presence of sixe customary Tenants.Concerning the womans recovery of her health. But if any such woman Covert-baron, so surrendering, doe after that recover her health, and doe not at the next generall Court then following ratifie and confirme the same, before the Steward or his Deputy, in the presence of the Homage, then the same Surrender is and shall be void.All other Surrenders by women Covert-baron. And all other Surrenders made by any woman Covert-baron, except before the Steward of the Mannor, or his Deputy, where she shalbe solely examined, or in extremity of sicknesse, as is aforesaid, are and shall be void.

ITem, all Surrenders taken out of the Court by the Steward of the said Mannors, or of any of them, or his sufficient Deputy, of any person or persons, being of the full age of one and twenty yeeres or more, and of Sanae memoriae, of any of their customary 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 them;Must bee presented, at the next generall Court. and the same ought to bee published and notified to the Homage at the next generall Court, or else those Surrenders are also void.

ITem, all the Fines upon admittances for any the now Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, of all and every the persons, named parties to the said Indenture, holden by Copy of Court Roll, are and ought to bee certaine, and not arbitrary, or at the will of the Lord. And the Lord or Lords of the said Mannors, or of either of them, ought to have and take Fines upon admittances, as hereafter followeth, and not other, or greater: That is Qqq3to Cuſtomes and Orders. to say, upon the admission of the Heire or Heires after a descent, for every Acre of land (of what nature and kind soever) sixteen pence, and so after that rate, for greater or lesser quantities of land.What Fines are due. And upon admission of one person only, after any Surrender, the like summe of sixteene pence for every Acre; and so after that rate, for every greater or lesser quantity of land. But if more then one person bee admitted after or upon any Surrender:If more then one Person be admitted, then &c. then every of the same persons are to pay halfe so much as one person ought to pay, and not more. Likewise upon admission of the Heires of Heire, after a descent for every messuage Customary, with the Courts, Yards, Easements, Orchards, and Gardens thereunto belonging, for a Fine, the summe of thirteene shillings foure pence, and not more. And for a dwelling house, called a Tenement, with the Courts, Yards, Orchards, Easements, and Gardens thereunto belonging, the summe of ten shillings, and not more. And for a Cottage, used for a dwelling, with Easements and Gardens thereunto belonging, or without Garden, and not demised for more then three pounds by the yeere, the summe of twenty pence.What Fine for a building, not used for a dwelling house. But for a building, not used for a dwelling house, so much onely as according to the quantity of the land, after the rate of sixteene pence the Acre. And for greater Cottages used for dwelling, & which shalbe let for above three pounds by the yeere, with the Courts, Yards, Orchards, and Easements thereunto belonging, the summe of ten shillings. And the like is of Messuages, Tenements, and Cottages hereafter to bee built. And upon or after any Surrender, at the admission, the like Fines are to bee paid for one person. Admission of man and wife, a whole Fine. But if any Surrender be made by 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 bee paid for the wife. And if more persons bee admitted upon one Surrender; then every 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 accounted, 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 quantity thereof, according to the rate aforesaid. And parts of Messuages, parts of Tenements, and parts of Cottages, are to pay for Fines respectively (in regard of the whole) according to the rate of the whole.The Fines must bee entred in the margent of the Copies: See Article 19. And all Fines paid, are to bee set downe and expressed in the Copy of the Court Roll therof, or in the margent of the same Copy. And if any question or doubt shall hereafter arise, about the discerning and true estimation what, or which be, or ought to be accounted a Messuage; and what, or which, a dwelling house, called a Tenement; 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 bee tried, ordered, determined, and presented, and according to such presentments, Fines are to bee paid.

ITem, if the Lord or Lords of the said Mannors, 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 use such Surrender (as in the precedent Article is expressed) shall bee made, or shall refuse to admit such person or persons, to whom any of the said Copy-hold, or Customary, or reputed Copy-hold, or Customary Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments shall descend, according to the custome of the said Mannors, and true meaning of these Scedules: then the person so not admitted, paying or tendering to the Lord or his Reeve, Fine or Fines for the same (according to the true meaning of these Scedules) shal and may into such Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, so surrendered or descended, respectively enter; and the same quietly have, hold, and enjoy as freely, and in such sort, as if hee or they had beene Cuſtomes and Orders. beene thereunto lawfully admitted, and not otherwise.

ITem, if any man make a Surrender, onely to the intent to make his wife a Jointure, or to assure it to his wife for tearme of her life, or during her widow-hood, not alterning the estate of the inheritance; then for the fine of the same, or any admittance thereupon; there shall bee paid but halfe a fine for the same things so surrendred: That is to say, halfe so much as one person should pay upon admittance, according to the true meaning of these Scedules. And the like is to be used, where the Husband, and Wife make a Surrender of the Lands of the Wife; to the end onely, 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 custom) for every Tenant that shall not bee admitted in Reversion or Remainder expectant,Concerning Tenants not admitted, &c. upon the estate of any particular Tenant for life, in taile or for yeeres, granted by the Copy; the same is but halfe so much as it is upon other admittances, upon alienations, surrenders, or dying seized as aforesaid.

ITem, every person that exhibiteth or delivereth any Surrender, or Bill to the Homage, ought to give and pay to the same Homage, for every such surrender or Bill, foure pence, and every of the said sixe Tenants, and also the Headborought or Reeve (which shall be at the taking of any Surrenders as aforesaid) ought to have foure pence apiece of the parties that make the Surrender, if the same Surrender be taken within the said Mannors,Taking Surrenders out of the 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 have eight pence apiece, and their charges, if they shall goe further off. And the party that procureth the said Surrender, ought to give to the said Tenants foure pence, beside the said sees; which foure pence is to be delivered 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, after the death of every person, being a Ccustomary Tenant of the said Mannors, or of either of them; the next heire or heires ought to come and take up the Lands and Tenements, whereof his or their Ancestors so shall dye seized, of what age soever he bee. And if he or they be of the age of foureteene yeeres or upwards;At foureteen yeers he is to be presented and admitted in his owne person. hee is to bee admitted in his owne person, within a convenient time after he or they shall be presented. Or else if he or they bee under the age of foureteene yeeres; then to come and take it up by his Gardian,Vnder 14. yeeres by a Gardian. untill hee bee of the age of foureteene yeeres, as aforesaid, and to pay for his fine, according to the rates expressed in these Scedules; and the Gardian to pay but three shillings and foure pence at the most for his fine for the Gardianship,Gardian three shillings foure pence. or lesse, as the Steward or his Deputy shall thinke fit. And for Lands descended from the part of the Father; the next Cousien of the part on the Mother, not able to inherit those Lands, ought to be Gardian. And if the Lands came from the part of the Mother;Who shall be Gardian. then the like Cousien of the part of the Father ought to be Gardian, if that person will accept thereof.See Article 37. And upon their refusall, or not praying to be admitted Gardian, 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 descend) to bee Gardian.The kindred refusing to be Gardian. And if none of the kindred will accept of the Gardianship; then may another bee admitted. And every Gardian shall account to the heire of the profits, and repaire the Copy-hold Tenements of him whose Gardian he is: And upon admittance shall be bound to the Lord for the time being,And shall be bound to the L. for performance. with condition for performance thereof, in such summe as the Homage of the said Court, or the greater part thereof shall like of. And of the Lands of every Infant under foureteene yeeres of age, that shall bee a purchaser; a Gardian shall be admitted, and shall so demeane himselfe in such manner, as for the Gardian of an Infant (having Lands by descent) is limited and appointed.

ITem, if any Customary or Copy-hold Tenant of the said Mannors, or of either of them, shall not pay his Rents for his Copy-hold, for which the same is due, and demanded by the said Reeve or his Deputy, 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 avow. 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 enjoy the Rents, Issues, and profits of the same to his or their owne use, untill hee or they shall bee fully satisfied and paid the same Rents by him or them that so ought to pay the same.

ITem, the homage of every of the said Mannors ought yeerely (at the generall Court to be holden next after Michaelmas) to elect & chuse severall Reeves for every of the said Mannors; that is to say, to elect and chuse two Customary 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 Reeve for each of the said Mannors: namely, he that was before in election (if he bee alive) 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;Hee shall serve one whole yeere. that is, one to serve for each of the said Mannors; so he be appointed within that Mannor of which he is a Tenant, and for which he shalbe so chosen. Which Reeve being so appointed, ought to take upon him the said Office for one whole yeere then next ensuing, to execute the same by himselfe or his Deputy, for whom hee shall answer, and to be subject to account and answer for the same, as in the said presents is set downe.

And if a Copy-holder shall bee duly chosen, and appointed by the Homage, to bee the Lords Reeve, as aforesaid, and (according to his turne) presented by the Homage, and shall refuse to serve the said Office by himselfe or his Deputy:For refusing the Office, and what Fine to be paid in Hackney. then every such person so refusing, within the said Mannor of Hackney, shall pay for a Fine, sixe pounds thirteene shillings and fourepence. And every such person so refusing,The Fine for Stepney. within the said Mannor of Stebunheath or Stepney, shall pay for a Fine, ten pounds to the Lord of the Mannor,The Homage shall chuse another, untill one do accept and serve. whereof his Lands are holden. And the Homage of the same Mannor shall bee charged from time to time to chuse another Reeve in the place of him that shall so refuse, untill such time as (for the same Mannor) one be chosen that shall and will serve the said Office. And every Copy-holder that shall bee chosen and appointed to the said Office as aforesaid, and shall refuse to serve the same Office, shall pay the Fine aforesaid to the Lord of that Mannor for his refusall. The halfe of Fines paid by refusers, shall be allowed him who next shall serve. The one halfe of all which Fines or Fine, of Tenant or Tenants so refusing to accept and execute the said Office of Reeveship, according to the true meaning of these Scedules, the Lord or Lords of the said Mannors, or either of them, of whom such Tenant or Tenants so refusing shall hold, ought, and shall from time to time allow unto such person or persons, as being chosen and appointed to bee Reeve as aforesaid; And shall and will, next after the refusall of any one or more of the said Tenants so chosen, accept and serve the said Office; the moity of the said Fine or Fines, respectively to bee by him defaulked and retained in his account.And be by him retained at his accounting. And by the Lord of that Mannor, upon the same Reeves account (whensoever hee shall account for the same) to be duly and justly allowed.

ITem, if any Copy-holder, that shall accept, and execute the said Office of Reeve, shall refuse to satisfie and pay unto the Lord, the yeerely quitrents and fines for admittances upon Alienations or Descents, wherewith such Reeve shall or may bee lawfully charged, by and according to the true meaning of these presents; or shall refuse to account with the Lord, within two moneths next yeerely after Michaelmas, having had the Rentall and Estracts of Fines upon admittances, as aforesaid, for that yeere, by the space of two moneths: Every such Reeves Lands & Tenements, that shal so refuse to account, and pay the said Rents and Fines which he shall or may have collected, as aforesaid, shall bee seized into the Lords hands, and the Lord shall and may take to his owne use the iſſues Cuſtomes and Orders. issues and profits of his said Lands and Tenements, untill he shall pay unto the Lord the Rents and Fines aforesaid: And untill hee hath also satisfied and paid for his said offence (viz.) being Reeve of Hackney, What he is to pay for his offence in both the Mannors. six pounds thirteene shillings foure pence: And being Reeve of Stepney, ten pounds. Neverthelesse, the Reeve ought not, nor shall be charged or chargeable to answer any Quitrents, contained in any Rentall or Estracts, Hee is not to answer any Quitrent, unlesse hee know the Tenant, or where the Land lyeth. unlesse it appeare unto him by the Rentall of the former Reeve, or otherwise bee made knowne unto him by some of the Lords Officers, who is the Tenant, or where the Land lyeth; for and in respect of which, the same Quit-rents ought to be paid.

ITem, every of the said Reeves, is to bee allowed of the said Lords or Lord, for the executing of the said Office for one yeere, as followeth, viz. The Reeve of Stebunheath, three pounds sixe shillings and eight pence: and sixe shillings eight pence more, for and in respect of an allowance of a Coat-cloth to the said Reeve: And the Reeve of Hackney, fifty three shillings and foure pence: and sixe shillings eight pence more, for and in respect of an allowance of a Coat-cloth to the same Reeve: And all other commodities due and incident to the said Office, for either of them, or used heretofore to be paid to the said Reeve, by any of the Tenants of the said Mannors respectively.

ITem, the Reeves of the said Mannors, and of either of them, shall at the next generall Court, after his yeere of service expired, deliver the Rentall by which he made his account, to the Reeve that shall next succeed him,To bee amerced. upon paine to be amerced, or fined by the Homage, if he shall not so doe.

ITem, all the Customary Tenants of the said Mannors, & of either of thē, may break and dig their Copy-hold grounds Cuſtomes and Orders. grounds, holden of the said Mannors, and of either of them, at his or their will & pleasure; and fell, and cut down their timber and woods growing, or that shall grow upon the same, and convert it to their best use and profit: and may also suffer their Copy-hold 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 up againe, either where they stood before, or upon any other Lands, holden by Copy of Court-Roll of the said Mannors, or of either of them.No houses may bee pulled downe, to set them upon free-hold land. But they may not, or shall not take or pull them downe, to set them (or any part of them) upon their owne Free-holds, or upon the Free-holds of any other.

ITem, for Treason or Felony whatsoever, that shall bee committed by any Copy-holder of the said Mannors, or of any of them, for which hee shall be lawfully attainted, he shall forfeit his Copy-hold Lands and Tenements to the Lord of the said Mannor. And for all other offence or offences, act or acts whatsoever, 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.Outlawry except for Treason or Felony, shall be no forfeiture. But if a Copy-holder be out-lawed for any cause, saving Felony or Treason, the Lord shall not have the issues or profits of his Lands. And if a Copy-holder make a Feoffement of his Copy-hold, Gift in taile, or Lease for life or lives, by deed, or without deed, by livery and seizin thereupon: or shall suffer a recovery at the Common Law, levy a Fine, or wilfully refuse or deny to pay, doe or performe his Rents, Fines, Suits, Customes and Services, at any time due to the Lord or Lords of the said Mannors, or of either of them for the said Copy-holds:How a man may make a further forfeiture of his estate severall waies. The same wilfull refusall being presented to the Homage, by the oathes of three Customary Tenants, with the Reeve or his Deputy (the said Tenants or Reeve, nor his Deputy, being none of the Lords servants) and being found and presented by the Homage, the same shall be holden and reputed a forfeiture of his estate, whatsoever hee shall have by Copy of Court-Roll, at the time of any such act committed or done; in so much of his or their Copy-hold Lands and Tenements, as he shall have committed any such act: and only for so much of his Lands and Tenements, Denying to pay Rents, Fines, &c. out of the which the said Quitrent, and other duties is demanded, and shall be due, and wilfully denied by Cuſtomes and Orders. by the said Tenant or Tenants, as aforesaid. Or if any Copy-holder shall in the Lords Court,Disclaiming to hold of the Lord, and claiming their Copy-holds to be free-holds. or elsewhere in any court of Record, disclaime to hold his said Copy-hold 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) wilfully claime their Copy-holds to bee Free-holds; Pleading wittingly in a reall action at Common Law, in chiefe as a Free-hold. or willingly and wittingly plead in any Reall action at the Common law in chiefe as a Free-hold Tenant; or shall willingly and wittingly doe any other act, or things, in or concerning his now Lands and Tenements, which shall be a disseisin or dis-inheritance of the Lord or Lords of the said Mannors, or of either of them, their heires or assignes (other than such acts, as in these Articles are especially 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 free-hold; or for which he shall plead in chiefe, or do any such other act or thing as is aforesaid.What other forfeitures the Lord shall haue. Finally, the Lord of the said Mannors, or of either of them, shall have all such other Forfeitures, Issues, Profits, and Advantages of the said Copy-holds, as shall grow due to him by any Statute Lawes of this Realme, being not against and contrary to these Articles and Customes here expressely set downe.

ITem, the particular or private act or acts of any customary Tenant or Tenants of any of the said Mannors, which shall happen to be done 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 Reeve, or of either of them, contrary to the Articles and true meaning of these presents, neither doth nor shall extend to be construed to be a breach of the ancient customes of the said Mannors, or of either of them, to the hurt or prejudice of the rest of the Customary Tenants, but of themselves only, doing the said particular act.

ITem, that if any Tenant for terme of life, or lives onely, or for terme of yeeres of Customary Lands, shall make any waste, then he shall bee fined by the Homage; the third part of which Fine shall bee to the Lord, and the other two parts shall come to him in the reversion or remainder of the said Copy-hold.

ITem, if any Customary or Free Tenants Cattell, 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 upward or under) for the poundage therof, but one penny. And hee that is no Tenant, shall pay for every distresse of Cattell so pounded, foure pence.

ITem, if any Cattell be impounded within the Lords Pound, by any person or persons, being a Customary Tenant or Tenants of the said Mannors, or of either of them, for any trespasse committed or done within the said Mannors, or in either of them, upon their Copy-holds: that all such Cattell being so impounded, may by two of the said Customary Tenants, of such of the said Mannors, or of either of them, wherein the said trespasse shall be committed, which will answer for such damages and costs as shall bee recovered in the said Court, against the owners of the same Cattell for the said trespasse, bee delivered out of the said Pound, unto the owner of the said Cattell, by the custome of the same Mannors, and of either of them.

ITem, no Customary Tenant shall sue, vexe, or 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 L. of the said Mannors, or of either of them, or of his Steward for the time being; if any person do the contrary, he shall have his Lands or Tenements seized into the Lords hands, Cuſtomes and Orders. hands, untill he pay a Fine to the L. for the same offence, viz. such Fine as shall be ceassed by the Homage at the next generall Court of the said Mannor.

ITem, that no Customary Tenants of the said Mannors, or of either of them, for any offence to be done by any mans Cattell, within the said Mannors, or in either of them, shal drive the same Cattell to any forraigne Pounds, but to the Lords Pounds, being within the said Mannors, or in either of them: if any man doe the contrary, to be amerced at the next generall Court by the Homage. So alwaies as there be a sufficient Pound of the Lords there.

ITem, the Homage doe, and shall yerely use at the next general Court, holden upon the Tuesday, the ninth day next after Easter day, to elect and chuse out of the Hamlets within every of the said Mannors, certaine customary Tenants, to be Drivers and Viewers of the Wasts and Commons of the said Mannors, and of either of them, for one whole yeere. Which Tenants so elected, have authority (by the said custome) to drive the Commons at any time when they finde it surcharged, and to impound the Cattell by them so taken: and no other to drive the said Common, then the persons that were so chosen as aforesaid.

ITem, If by their driving, the surcharging cannot be remedied, then they ought to informe the Homage therof at the next Court, that they may amerce the offenders, whether the offenders be Tenants or no Tenants. And also to put a pain or amerciament upõ their heads, that they shall not likewise offend.

ITem, if the said Drivers receive by the said poundages, any more mony then they spend in travaile, the rest shalbe imployed to the scowring of the common Sewers, which bee upon the said waste ground and Commons, and laying of Bridges over the said common Sewers; and shall make their account (in that behalfe) to the Homage at the generall Court, when the yeere (for which they were chosen) shall expire.

ITem, the Copy-hold and customary Tenants, may make by-lawes at their generall Courts, when need shall require, which custome shall be so continued. And the said by-lawes so by them made, shall binde all the Copy-hold Tenants of the said Mannors, or of either of them: so the same be not contrary to the true meaning of these Articles.

ITem, by the custome of the said Mannors, and of either of them, Tenants in taile of customary Lands and Tenements, may suffer common recoveries within the said severall Mannors, with single or double vouchers; or (by agreement) forfeit the said Lands and Tenements into the Lords hands, for the cutting off the estate taile: which custome (by these Articles) shall have still continuance, and such recoveries and forfeitures, are and shall be good to barre the said Entaile.

ITem, all Messuages, Tenements, and Cottages, that shall hereafter bee built upon any the copy-hold Lands, wherof the customes are hereby meant to be declared; shall be held and enjoyed by the Copy-hold Tenants thereof, under the same Customes and Articles herein declared, as the Lands whereon they shall bee built are holden and enjoyed; but shall pay such Fines therefore, as is before expressed or declared for Messuages, Tenements, and Cottages, that shall be new built.