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Erle his heyres or executors do and suffre to be done all and every soche resonable 
acte & actes thinge and thinges wherby the manors of Sydisterne, and Newton 
juxta Byrcham in the countie of Norfolk, the manor of greate Byrcham in the 
said countie of Norfolk, & the manor of Bulkham in the countie of Suffolk and 
all & singular those lands tenements & hereditaments accepted reputed letten 
knowen or taken as any parte parcell or membre of the said manors or of any 
parte or parcell thereof or being letten to or with any of them with theyre 
appurtenances being parcell of the inherytaunce of the said Syr John 
Robsart shall & may be conveyed to the said Syr John Robsart during 
his lif without impechement of any manner of waste, the rem’ thereof to the 
said lady Elyzabeth duringe her lyf, the rem’ thereof to the said Robarte & Amye 
and to the heyres of the body of the said Amye and for defalte of soche issue 
the rem’ thereof to the ryght heyres of the said Syr John Robsarte for ever. 
Anp over that the said Syr John Robsart covenanteth granteth & promyseth to 
& with the said Erle his heyres and executors that he the said Syr John Robsart 
shall well & truely during his lyf if hit fortune the said Robarte & Amye so 
longe to lyve, content & pay to the said Robarte yerly during the said terme the 
sum of Twenty Powndes of good and lawfull money of England to be paid at 
fower times in the yere that _ys to say at the Feaste of St Mychell tharchangell, 
the nativitie of our Lord th annuncyacon of our lady and the natyvytie of 
saynt John Baptist by even porcions. AND also the said Syr John Robsart 
covenaunteth promyseth & graunteth to & with the safd Erle that yf hit shall 
fortune the said Robarte and Amye & the heyres of theyre too bodyes lawfully 
betwene them begotten or any of them to outlyve the said Syr John Robsart 
and the lady Elizabeth his wife that then the said Robarte & Amye & the heyres 
_ of theyre too bodyes or one of them shall after the decesse of the said Syr John 
Robsart & the lady Elizabeth have and enjoy of the fre gifte will and legacie of 
the said Syr John Robsart the nombre of Thre Thowsand Shepe to be left in a 
stokke goinge on the premisses in Norfolk & Suffolk foresaid. In WytNnzEs 
wherof to thone parte of these presents remayning with the said Erle the said 
Syr John Robsart hath put his seale, and to thother parte remayning with the 
said Syr John Robsart the said Erle hathe put his seale the day and yere fyrste 
above wrytten. 
J. WARWYK.” 
[A large seal: but arms.and legend utterly effaced. 
In an official hand underneath: ‘‘ Capt’ et recognita coram me Ricardo Stan- 
dish vicesimo quarto die mensis Maii et anno Regni Regis suprascripto.”’] 
No. II. (p. 54.) 
(A.D. 1553, 1557, and 1558.) Later deeds naming Robert Dudley 
and Amye as husband and wife. (Original at Longleat.) 
Hamessy, Co. Norfolk. 7 Edw. VI. (1553), 4th February. [ ndorsed.] 
“ The counterpayne of a deade made by the Duke of Northumberland to my 
Lord and my Lady of the Manor of Hemesbye.” 
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