OF PHILIP, FIRST EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. 'lOg 



authoritie of the same is seized and sequestered to & for the use 

 & benefitt of the Comonwealth & whereas the said Earle was 

 heretofore seized of Certain Lands & Tenements situate lying & 

 being in Brettby Sawly & Horsely & of one Farme in Cubley & 

 certaine grounds there called Brickilne Leyes Cunnygray &: 

 Sanders Coppy in the possession of Richard Ryly and Mr. 

 Nathaniell Williams or there Assignes now these presents witness 

 that wee Raphe Clarke Robert Mellor & Gervase Bennett sub- 

 stituted and appointed Commissioners for Sequestrations in the 

 said county have demised granted leased sett & to farme lett & 

 by those presents doe demise etc unto Robert Swaine of Horsely 

 John Pim of Draycott John North of Cubley & Arthur Lothbury 

 of Hillton in the said county of Derby yeomen all the rentes 

 lands and tenements with theire and evey of theire appurtenances 

 To have and to hold the said lands and tenements to them the 

 said Robert Swaine John Pim John North Arthur Lothbury & 

 theire assignes for & during & untill the full end & Terme of one 

 whole yeare from the five & twentyeth day of March now next 

 following & fully to be compleate & ended yeilding & paying 

 therefore to us to & for the use of the Comonwealth the Rent or 

 Sume of Eleaven Hundred forty & one pounds of Currant Englisli 

 money in and upon the nine & twentyeth day of September & the 

 five & Twentyeth of March now next ensuing by even & equal 

 portions & also paying and discharging all & all manner of Taxes 

 due & payable forth of the premises & paying the rent or sume of 

 Forty pound unto Nathaniell Hallowes Esq' & likewise well & 

 sufficiently uphoulding repairing & maintaining all Houses & out- 

 houses upon the premises in good & sufficient repair & making 

 no waste of any part of the premises And it is further agreed & 

 the said R. S., J. P., J. N., & A. L. for themselves & their 

 assignes doe covenant & agree to & with the said Commissioners 

 that for evey aker of ground that the said R. S. etc shall plow by 

 more than what is allowed & imployed in Tillage shall forfeit to 

 the use of the Comonwealth to be leaved by distress & sale the 

 sume of five pounds And lastly it is covenanted & agreed by & 

 betweene the said parties that in Case the said Rents be behind & 



