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Whether they have all the bookes and records of the former 

 Committee with an account of their receipt of this order to 

 us sealed upp within a month after notice hereof. 



JA. Russell r,c. Moore 



WiLLM MOLINS Edw. WinSLOW." 



" Derb. SS. t 



January 8"> 1652 



John Reeve of Osmastone in the said Countye Husband- 

 man made oath before us Robert Mellor & Gervase Bennett 

 Commissioners for Sequestration in the said County that he 

 knows certayne lands lying in the county of Leicester called 

 by the name of Kinton wast which William Harpur of Derby 

 gent & as the deponant hath heard but of whom he knowes 

 not lately purchased • And this deponant was at one tyme 

 present when one Mr Thimbleby did receive of the said Mr 

 Harpur a great sume of money but how much this deponant 

 remembereth not but at the same tyme he heard the said 

 Mr Thimbleby to acknowledge that the sume he received was 

 in full satisfaction of the said purchase of Kinton wast And 

 the said Mr Thimbleby upon the payment of the said money 

 did cancell a bond & sold it unto the said Mr Harpur 

 ^ g John X Reeve 



T. T>, ^^^ marke. 



Robert Mellor. 



Gent: According to your order of the 14"' of Dec • 

 last in the case of William Harpur of Derby gent : we have 

 herewith sent this information of Jo: Reeve taken before us 

 by vertue of the said order which is all materiall in the 

 premisses that hath come to our knoledge the land lying i„ 

 the county of Leicester. 

 January 10"' 1652." 



COKE, OF MELBOURNE. 

 Thomas Coke, of Melbourne and Tottenham High Cross was 

 second son of Sir John Coke, one of the principal secretaries to 



