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servauntes and every other parson or parsons by his or theire speciall 

 lycence and appointment in and uppon the saide prernyses and in and 

 uppon every parte thereof To have and to holcle the saide Messuage 

 and Tofte heretofore demysed and all other the premisses with all and 

 singuler theire appurtenaunces (except before excepted) unto the saide 

 Sir John Benett his executors admynistrators and assignes from the feast 

 of Thannuneyacion of the blessed virgin Sainte Mary last past before the 

 date of theise presentes unto the end and terme of fowerscore and nyne- 

 teene yeres from thence next ensuing and fully to be compleate and 

 ended yf the said Anne wyfe of the saide William Bennett thelder 

 and William Bennett and Mathewe Bennett sonnes of the saide Sir 

 John Bennett or any one of them the saide Anne William Benett the 

 sonne and Mathewe Benett doe or shall soe long happen to lyve 

 Yeldinge and payinge therefore yerelie during the said terme the 

 olde and accustomed yerelie rente or somme of fower poundes eight 

 shillinges and fower pence of lawfull English money at two feastes or 

 termes in the yere most usuall that ys to say at the feastes of Sainte 

 Michaell tharchaungell and Thannuneyacion of the blessed virgin Sainte 

 Mary by even and equall poreions And the saide Sir John Benett for 

 himselfe his heires executors administrators and assignes and for every 

 of them doth covenaunte and graunte to and with the saide Earle his 

 heires and assignes and to and with every of them by theis presentes 

 that yf it shall happen the said yerelie rent of fower poundes eight 

 shillinges and fower pence or anye parte thereof reserved as aforesaid to 

 be behind and unpaied at any tyme during the saide terme by the space 

 of one and twenty dayes nexte after any of the saide feast dayes at or in 

 which it ought to be payed as is aforesaide the same having been 

 lawfully demaunded at or within the said messuage before by theis 

 presentes demysed That then the saide Sir John Bennett and his assignes 

 and every other parson and parsons lawfully clayming or which shall 

 clayme by from or under him or his right or under this present demyse shall 

 f orfaite and pay unto the saide Earle his heires and assignes for everie such 

 default of payment of the saide yerely rent in manner and forme before 

 rnencioned the somme of twenty shillinges of lawfull money of England 

 for and in the name of a paine over and above the saide yerelie rent of 

 fower poundes eight shillinges and fower pence And that for every such 

 somme or sommes of money soe to be forfaited for and in the name of a 

 payne for everie or any such default as is aforesaide yt shall and may 

 be lawfull to and for the saide Earle his heires and assignes and every or 

 any of them into all and singuler the saide prernyses before by theis 

 presentes demysed with all and singuler theire appurtenaunces to enter 

 and distraine and the distresse and distresses there found and taken to 

 leade chase dryve and carry away and the same to keepe holde and de- 

 taine untill such tyme as he the saide Earle his heires or assignes and 

 every or any of them of all and every such somme or sommes of money 

 so to be forfaited for and in the name of a payne for every such defaulte 

 of payment as is aforesaide be fully satisfied contented and paied 

 Provided alwayes yf it shall happen the saide yerelie rent or summe 



