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all that tlie aforesaid close of meadow called Stony Bridge 

 Close, containing by estimation four acres, late in the 

 occupation of John Deakes or his assigns, lying between 

 the stream called the Common Sewer on the east side, 

 and the aforesaid piece of land called Teamshott on the 

 west side, and the bridge called Stony Bridge on the 

 north side, by the particular thereof mentioned to be of 

 the yearly rent or value of twenty shillings ; And also all 

 that one piece of arable land in the common field called 

 East Field, containing by estimation three acres, late in 

 the occupation of Thomas Frances or his assigns, lying 

 between the aforesaid piece of land called Teamshott on 

 the east side, a piece of arable land, late in the tenure of 

 the Earl of Lincoln or his assigns, on the west side, a 

 parcel of meadow of Earles Court land on the south side, 

 and our highway leading from Westminster to Chelsey 

 aforesaid on the north and west side, by the particular 

 thereof mentioned to be of the yearly rent or value of 

 four shillings ; (which same premises are, or formerly 

 were, parcel of our land in Chelsey, being parcel of the 

 Demesne land of the Manor of Chelsey aforesaid, and 

 lately were parcel of the possessions of John, late Duke 

 of Northumberland ; and which lately by our very dear 

 grandfather, of blessed memory, King James, by his 

 Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the eighth 

 day of May, in the year of his reign of England the 

 eighth, and of Scotland the forty-third, were granted, or 

 mentioned to be granted, to the Provost and Fellows of 

 the College of King James in Chelsey, near London, of 

 the foundation of the same James, King of England, and 

 to their successors for ever, to hold of the aforesaid King 

 James, as of his Manor of East Greenwich, in the county 

 of Kent, by fealty only, in free and common socage, and 

 not in chief, nor by Knight service ;) And also all and 

 singular houses, buildings, structures, woods, underwoods, 

 trees, and all the land, ground, and soil of the same 

 woods, underwoods, and trees, and all other our rights, 

 jurisdictions, franchises, privileges, liberties, profits, com- 

 modities, advantages, emoluments, and hereditaments 

 whatsoever, with all their appurtenances, of whatsoever 

 kind, nature, or sort they may be, or by whatsoever 

 names they may be known, deemed, called, or recognised, 

 situate, lying, and being, issuing, growing, renewing, or 

 arising, within the county, towns, fields, places, or hamlets 

 aforesaid, or elsewhere wheresoever, to the aforesaid lands 



