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then it shall & may be lawful! to & for the said Commissioners 

 into the said Premises to enter & distraine & the distress 

 there found to take Lead drive away & sell. Given under 

 our hands & scales March 28"', 165 1 



Sealed and delivered in the Henry Buxton [.Sfal. 



presence of \^ . 



W" Flint 



Edw : Brookes." 

 " Whereas the Estate reall & personall of John Merry of 

 Brisingcoate for his delinquency against the parliament & 

 by the Authority of the same is seized & sequestered to & 

 for the Use of the Commonwealth & whereas hee the said 

 John Merry was heretofore seized of one Farme Called the 

 Bower & one other Farme Called Bradshawe Farme situate 

 lying & being in Stanton in the said County of Derby Now 

 these persons wittnesse that wee Ralph Clarke Robert Mellor 

 & Gervase Bennett substituted & appointed Commissioners 

 for Sequestrations in the said County Have demised, granted, 

 Leased, lett & to farme lett & by these presents doe demise 

 grant lett & to farme lett Unto Richard Harrison of the 

 Burrow of Derby in the said Countie of Derbie yeoman the 

 said Two Farmes with the appurtenances thereunto belonging 

 excepting the liberties of lead mynes To Have & to Hould 

 the said Two Farmes to him the said Richard Harrison & 

 his Assignes for & dureing & Untill the full end <Sc Terme 

 of one whole yeare from the Five & Twentyeth of NLarch now 

 next ensuing to bee fully Compleate & ended yielding & 

 paying therefore to us to & for the use of the State the 

 Rent or sume of Twenty Seaven pounds Seaventeen shillings 

 syxpence of Currant English Money in & upon the nine 

 & Twentieth day of September & the Five & Twentyeth of 

 March now next following by even & equall portions & 

 also paying & discharging all and all manner of Taxes due 

 & payable forth of the premises & likewise well & sufficiently 

 Uphoulding repaireing & maintaineing all Houses & out 



