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APPENDIX. 



Lease for One thousand years of Messuage and a moiety of lands &c 

 AT Temple Sowerby 17TH Jan. 20th Elizabeth [1577-8]. 

 THIS INDENTURE made the 17th day of January in the 20th year of the 

 reign of our sovereign Lady Elizabeth by the Grace of God Queen of England 

 France and Ireland Defender of the Faith &c Between CHRISTOPHER 

 DALSTOUNE of Uldaill in the County of Cumberland Gentleman of the one 

 party and JOHN DALSTOUNE of Temple Sowerby in the County of Westmor- 

 land Yeoman of the other party WITNESSETH that the said Christopher 

 Dalstoune in accomplishment and performance of one decree made at the City 

 of York the fourth day of December in the 17th year of the Queens Majesty 

 that now is by the Lord President and others of her Council established in the 

 North parts by the assent and consent of the said Christopher Dalstoune and 

 upon the offer of the said Christopher Dalstoune in the matter then in variance 

 between Agnes Stephenson of Temple Sowerby in the County of Westmorland 

 Widow, Wilham Gowlinge, John Robinsonne Roger Stable William Lowis 

 Robert Gowlinge John Haronne John Pattison, WiUiam Parker John Lowis 

 John Dalstoune John Blamire Robert Paicocke Robert Brown William 

 Atkinson, Michael Sowerby and Ehzabeth Stable, Widow of Temple Sowerby 

 aforesaid Complainants and the said Christopher Dalstoune then Defendant 

 for the custom of tenants right of their several farmholds and tenements there 

 By the which decree it is ordered amongst other things that the said Christopher 

 Dalstoune shall make unto the said tenants good and sufficient leases of their 

 several dwellinghouses edifices and buildings in Temple Sowerby aforesaid 

 their lofts crofts garths and orchards to their dwelhng messuages or tenements 

 next adjoining to their said dwellinghouses with the moiety of their said arable 

 lands meadows and pastures to the said tenements belonging for and during 

 the term of a thousand years witli reasonable common for the pasturing of 

 their cattle of the moors or wastes of the said Manor and turf grass for their 

 necessary Yielding and paying therefore yearly to the said Christopher and his 

 heirs the yearly rent of Four marks by year at the usual terms and to do all 

 other duties and services as is declared in the articles alleged to be made by 

 certain arbitrators named in tlie said decree so as the said Defendant may peace- 

 ably enjoy the other moiety of their said lands meadows and pastures to be set 

 out by four or two indifferent persons to be nominated and appointed by the 

 assent of the said parties named in the said decree and the said ground so divided 

 to be bounded or severed as shall be appointed by the said Commissioners so 

 to be nominated and appointed By the wliich decree there is appointed Com- 

 missioners for the making of the said divisions viz Humphrey Musgrave Esquire 

 Thomas Birbecke Leonard Dickes and George Porter who by force of the Queens 



