The Nczi'ly-Discovercd Shakespeare Documents 7 



That Whearas Yo'' Orato''® be and are seu'allye LawfulHe Seised in 

 there Demesne as of ffee of and ill One Capitall Messuage or 

 DvveUinoe howse vv*'' there app'ten^nces w*'^ two Court Yardes and 

 one void plot of grownd sometymes vsed for a garden on the East 

 p*^^ of the said Dwelhnge howse and so Much of one Edifice as now 

 or sometymes served for two Stables and two haye Loftes over the 

 said Stables and one litle Colehowse adioyninge to the said Stables 

 Lyinge on the South side of the said Dwellinge howse And of an- 

 other Messuage or Tenem*^^ w*^'* thapp'ten^nces now in the occu- 

 pac5n of Anthony Thompson and Thoms Perckes and of there As- 

 signes & of a void peece of grownd whervppon a Stable is builded 

 to the said meassuage belonginge-"- and of seu'all othere howses 



'Devided into seu'all Lodginges or Dwellinge howses Toginther w*^'^ 

 all and singuler Sello" Sollers Chambers Halls plo'"® Yardes Back- 

 sides Easem^^s pfites and Comodityes Hervnto seu'allie belonginge 

 And of Certaine Void plots of grownd adioyninge to the said Mes- 

 suages and p'misses aforesaid or vnto some of them And of a Well 

 howse All w'^^ messuages Tenemen*^® and p'misses aforesaid be 

 Lyinge w*^^in the p'cinct of Black ffriers in the Cittye of London or 

 Countye of Midd late the Messuages Tenem*^^^ and enheritances of 

 Willyam Blackwell thelder Henrie Blackwell and Willyam Black- 

 well the Younger and of Ann Bacon or of some of them Vnto w'^^ 

 foresaid Capitall Messuages Tenem*^^ and p'misses aforesaid seu'all 



• Deedes Chores Letters patentes Evidences Munim*^^^ and Wrightinges 

 be and are belonginge and appteyninge and do belonge vnto Yo' 

 Orato''s and Doe serve for the pvinge of Yo^ Orato*"^ LawfuU right 

 title int'est and estate in to and vnto the foresaid Messuages and 

 p'misses All w^^ foresaid Letters patentes Deedes Evidences Chores 

 munim*^^^ and Wrightinges aforesaid were left in trust w*^^ Ann 

 Bacon deceassed for and vnto the vse and behoofe of Yo^ Orators 

 Now so Yt is May Yt please Yo^ Honorable LoP; that the said Ann 

 Bacon b^inge latelie Dead and Mathv Bacon beinge her sole exe- 

 cuto'" thi foresaid Letters patentes Deedes Chores and Evidences 

 Munini'^ and Wrightinges aforesaid be since her Death come vnto 

 and now be in the handes and poison of the foresaid Mathy Bacon 

 who doth not Clayme any right estate or int'est at all in or vnto the 

 foresaid Messuages or Tenem*^^^ Yet neu'theles the said Mathy Bacon 

 Knowinge the Messuages Tcnem'^^ Letters patentes Deedes Evi- 

 dences Chr'es Munim'^^ and Wrightinges aforesaid to be belonging 

 and onelie to belonge to Yo^ Orato'"^ Doth neu'theles W'^hould 

 keepe and Deteyne awaye from yo"" Orato""* the foresaid Letters 

 patentes and other Deedes Evidences Chr^es Munim^^^ and Wright- 



^The words "and of there Assignes & of a void peece of grownd wher- 

 vppon a Stable is builded to the said meassuage belonginge" are interlined. 



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