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lives |’"!—and the said Alice happen to survive her husband, yet 
shall she have no better estate than widowhood, vdelicet while 
she lives sole and chaste:—and if her husband survive her, and 
marrye again, none of his wyves shall have widowes estate for 
that his first wyfe was named in the coppye. 
II. Item.—Ifa man take a bargaine to himselfe and Alice his 
wyfe jointly as thus ;—[To this Court came John at Style and 
Alice his wyfe, and gave for a fine ten pounds tor their estate 
and entrance into five messuages, and five yardlands, with their 
appurtenances, to be had to them for the term of their lives |—if 
this Alice do survive her husband and do fortune to marrye again, 
yet she shall have this bargaine during her lyfe for that she was 
purchaser. 
III. Item.—If two persons take a bargaine jointly together, as 
thus; [To this Court came John at Style, and John at Oake, and 
gave for a fine four pounds for estate and entrance to be had of 
and in five messuages, and five yardlands, with their appurtenan- 
ces, to be had to them for the term of their lives |—the first pur- 
chasers wife shall have no widowes estate, except he do survive 
the purchaser joined with him; whosoever doth survive the other 
of the two joint-purchasers, his wyfe shall have the widowes 
estate. 
IV. Item.—Ifaman take a bargain in possesion (in esse) as thus ;— 
[To this Court came John at Style and gave for a fine four 
pounds for entrance and estate to be had in five messuages and five 
yardlands, to hold to himself and Thomas his son for the term 
of their lives |—then the said Thomas the sonne must needs have 
it if he do survive his father, because his father John at Style 
died seised of the bargaine. 
V. Item.—If aman buy the revercon of a bargaine, as thus;— | 
[To this Court came John at Style, and gave for a fine five pounds 
for the revercon to five messuages, and five yardlands, with the 
appurtenances now in the tenure of John Dale, to hold to him 
1 Tn the original document it is,—‘‘ Ad ist. cur. venit. Joan. at Style et dat 
Dne de fine iiijl p. ingress. et stat. habend. in un. messuag. et un. virg. ter. ac 
pertin, Tenend., sibi et Alic, uxi ad term. eor, vit.” 
