188 PREFACE 



Forasmuch as the matter in question betweene the said 

 parties hath been by all their mutuall assents referred unto the 

 hearing and ending of the said right honorable the Lord 

 North one of her Ma ties most honorble privie Counsell and 

 Treasurer of her Highnesse houshold, according to agree- 

 ment heretofore made betweene the said parties. Which 

 agreement was, that if anie ambiguitie did arise on ether side 

 touching the premises then he to have the determining thereof. 

 Who upon hearing the said matter in variante hath set downe 

 certen Articles of Agreement with their like mutuall assents. 

 Whereunto as well the plaintiffs as defendants have subscribed 

 their names as verie well content there unto. And humblie 

 desired by Mr. Bacon, being of their Councell, that the same 

 may be by this Court decreed accordingly. It is therefore 

 ordered and decreed by the right honorable Sr. Thomas Egerton 

 Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Scale of England with the 

 assent of all the said parties on both sides That all and 

 everie such matter Thing Clause and Article as is set downe 

 between the said parties by the said Lord North in the said 

 Agreement shall be performed fulfilled and kept by all and 

 everie of the said parties whose names are to the said Agree- 

 ment subscribed according to the tenor and true meaning of 

 the same in as ample and forcible manner as if the said Agree- 

 ment had been judiciallie pronounced and set downe by this 

 Court. " par 75 a (?) 



Li. A. fol. 897. Signatur ManibuS ' 



This copie was taken out of Bacon pro querentibus 



the Registrie. Termino Mi- Ellis pro defendentibus 



chilis Anno regni regis Caroli Rotheram pro querentibus 



17 Anno domini 1641. (pay- Evelin pro defendentibus 

 ing for it 2s. 6d. that isX VII I d . 



the first folio and XII d . the per Henne Stobell 



nex t. deputatum Registrarii. 



(C) u Decretum inter Hynde et Pepys. Anno Elizabethe. 



The inhabitants subscribers to these articles are 111. to- 

 wards the latter end of them is the Master of St. Johns but 

 not his name which makes me doubt it is not a true copie of 

 the subscription or subscribers. Amongst whom is not the 

 parson of Cottenham, or Dr. Fleming. But in the beginning 

 of them the inhabitants parties to these articles are about 60. 



