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betweene the said parties Uiuo the presents that in Case the said 

 Rents be behind & Unpaid after any of the said Termes in which 

 it ought to be paid that then it shall & may be lawful! to & for 

 the said Commissioners into the premises to enter & distraine & 

 the distress there found to take leave drive away & sell Wittness 

 our Hands & Seales att Derby May the first 165 1 



(Seal) Robert Mellor 



(Seal) Ger. Bennett 



Sealed & delivered in the presence of William Flint." 



" Gent" : 

 There is a Fee Farme rent to the State issuing out of the 

 Mannor of Melburne of 59s per annum, 5s 5d of which is 

 payable out of the lands there now under sequestration for the 

 delinquency of Tho : Coke Esqr the annual some of 2 . 1 1 . o 

 which we haveing no power to pay at the instance of the 

 purchaser are bold to certefie unto you & remayne 



Gent: 



Your humble servant 

 Derby June 26 1652." 

 [Endorsed] 

 "A Certificate of a Fee Farm Rent issueinge out of Melburne." 



EVERY OF EGGINTON. 



On the death of Sir Henry Leigh, in the reign of James I., his 

 estate at Egginton passed to his daughter and co-heiress Anne, 

 who was married to Simon Every, of Chard, Somerset. Simon 

 Every was created a baronet in 164 1. His son. Sir Henry Every, 

 succeeded in compounding for the sequestration of his Derbyshire 

 estate, in 1655, for the sum of ;^iio, representing a tenth of the 

 whole value of the property. 



" To the Honorable the Commissioners for Compoundinge etc. 

 The humble Petition of Sir Henry Every of Egginton in the 

 County of Derby Barronet. 



