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houses Upon the premises in good & sufficient repaire & 

 makeing noe waste of any parte of the premises And it is 

 further agreed & the said Richard Harrison for himselfe & 

 his Assignes doth Covenant grant & agree to & with the 

 said Ralph Clarke Robert Mellor & Gervase Bennett that 

 for every acre of Ground which hee the said Richard 

 Harrison shall plow up more then what is allready imployed 

 in Tillage without License from the Commissioners or some 

 Two of them shall forfeite to the Use of the Common- 

 wealth to bee levied by distress & sale the surae of Five 

 pounds : And lastly it is Covenanted & agreed Upon by & 

 betweene the said parties Unto these presents that in Case 

 the said Rent bee behind & Unpaid after any of the said 

 Termes in which it ought to bee payed that then it shall 

 be lawfuU to & for the said Commissioners into the premises 

 to enter & distraine & the distress there found to take, 

 leave, drive away & sell Given Under our Hands & Seales 

 March the xii"' 1650 



[ Seal. J Richard Harrison. 



Sealed & DeHvered & the words excepting the liberties of 

 lead niynes interlyned before the sealing and delivering 

 hereof in the presence of W¥ Flint 



Rich : Walton 



The Tenant is to have use of the three groves already 

 sunke and to dig them onely threeescore yards in length 

 from the hedge where they first entered dureing the terme." 



" Wheras the estat reall and personall of John Merry of 

 Brisingcoate gent for his delinquencie against the Parliament and 

 by the authority of the same is seized and sequestered to and 

 for the use of the Comonwealth and whereas hee the said John 

 Merrie was heretofore seized of one farme situate lyeing & 

 being in Knyveton in the said County of Derby Nowe these pre- 

 sents witness that wee Raphe Clarke Robert Mellor and Gerva'se 



