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^rant f)v Sbiv gfof)n Brnct, mt., to pttntvolic 

 a^oXhf 0xfovti, of certain Incuts in ^tvi)v&\)ivt. 



By The Editor. 



HE Indenture transcribed below, the original of 

 which is at Pembroke College, is from a copy in the 

 possession of Mr. John Borough, of Derby, who 

 for some years acted as Receiver of the rents. 



Such documents are worth preserving, if only as a means of 

 reference, and as a valuable assistance to the student of county 

 history. 



This particular Deed is a grant of certain fee farm rents, ^ 

 etc., derivable from lands in Derbyshire and elsewhere to the 

 Master and Fellows of Pembroke College, Oxford, for the 

 purpose of founding two fellowships and two scholarships. A 

 Bennet Fellowship is still in existence at Pembroke College. 

 The donor was Sir John Bennet, of Dawley, co. Middlesex. 

 He was himself of Pembroke College, where he had matricu- 

 lated at the age of seventeen, on the 24th of April, 1635. He 

 was the eldest son of Sir John Bennet, of Dawley, was created 

 Lord Ossulston in 1682, and died in 1688. His son was 

 created Earl of Tankerville — the title of his deceased father- 

 in-law — and from him is descended the present earl. 



Most of the rents mentioned in this Deed have at various 

 times been redeemed in recent years by the freeholders. These 

 rents had been purchased from the Cro^vn by Sir John Bennet 

 only three years^ previous to this grant to the College. 



1 A fee Farm Rent is a perpetual Rent issuing out of an estate in fee of at 

 least a fourth of the land at the time of its reservation. — Coie on Littleton. 



2 See page 73. 



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