158 PROCEEDINGS FOR COMPOUNDING. 



'' By the Commissioners for Sequestrations in the said County 

 of Derby 



It is this present day ordered that Anne Merry wife to Jo : 

 Merry of Brisingcoate in the said county Esqr shall from the 

 25"* of March last past have hold & enjoy the house wherein 

 she now dwells at Brisingcoate the cow close next adjoyneing the 

 rough close & dadle poole the neare new close the nearer of the 

 two farther new closes & the vallers in lew of the 5"" part of her 

 husband's estate for the maynetenance of her selfe and three 

 children 



Derby April ii"" 1651 " 



" Whereas the Estate reall and personall of John Merry of 

 Brisingcoate in the County of Derby Esq'" for his delinquency 

 against the parhament & by authoritie of the same is seized and 

 sequestered to and for the Use & Benefitt of the Commonwealth 

 & whereas the said John Merrie was heretofore seized of Divers 

 Lands and Closes & of one Cottage & Croft called Dakin Cottage 

 situate lying and being in Brisingcoate in the said County ot 

 Derby as also of one farme in Kniveton now in the possession of 

 P'rancis Wibbersly Now these presents Witness that we Robert 

 Mellor and Gervase Bennett substituted & appointed Commis- 

 sioners for Sequestration in the said County Have demised granted 

 lett & to farme lett and by these presents doe demise grant 

 lett & to farme lett Unto Henrie Gregson of Turneditch in the 

 said Countie of Derby gent all the said Lands & premises in 

 Brisingcoate & Kniveton aforesaid with the Appurtenances there- 

 unto belonging To have & to hold the said Lands & premises 

 to him the said Henry Gregson & his Assignes for & dureing & 

 Untill the full end & terme of one whole yeare from the five & 

 Twentyeth day of March now last past to be fully compleate & 

 ended yeilding & paying therefore to us & for the Use of the State 

 the Rent or sume of Threescore and Eighteene pounds of currant 

 English money in & upon tiie Feast of S'- Michaell the Archangel 

 & the Annuntiation of the Virgin Mary now next ensuing by even 

 and small portions & alsoe paying & discharging all & all manner 



