256 The Society's MSS. Quidhampton. 



and made voyd shall accordingly stand and be altered changed revoked 

 and made voyd for such so much and such part and partes onely of the 

 premises as he shall declare his will and mind so to be and accordinge 

 to the very true intent purporte & meaninge of such deede or writinge 

 and of the said William therein and thereby expressed and declared 

 In witnes whereof the parties above named have to theis present 

 Indentures enterchangeably sett theire handes & scales the daie & yeare 

 first aboue written. William Benett. 



Endorsed. Sealed and deliuered in the presence of 

 Tho : We N TWO B THE 

 Jo : Speeds 



This Indenture was shewed forth vnto Thomas Wentworth Esquier 

 and to John Speed at the tyme of their examinacions on the parte and 

 behalfe of S r John Bennett Knight plaintiff against Baphe Bennett 

 Esquier and others defendauntes The xv lh daie of June 1610 



Per Nicholaum Boberts in Cancellaria Examinatorem. 



Endorsed. William Benet of Marlebourgh did covenant w ,h Sr Jo : 

 Benet to stand seised of Costow to y e vse of himself for life & after to 

 y" vse of William Benet of Grayes Inne entayle ll lh May 6 Jacob : w' h 

 power of revocation. 



(ID 



No. 116. 



Eather more than a month later, by a document very remarkable 

 for the vigour of its drafting no less than for the complicated 

 arrangement to which the two brothers had come set out in it, 

 the future devolution of lord Hertford's lease of the " Two Tene- 

 ments " in Costowe was finally determined. Sir John, like many 

 f his kindred, was a notable man. A certain distrust of him on 

 William's part may, perhaps, be read into the final covenant : — 



(63) 

 16 June, This Indenture made the sixteenth daie of June in the 

 1608. yeare of the raigne of our soveraigne lord James by the grace 

 of God of England France and Ireland kinge defendour of the 

 faith &c. the sixt and of Scotland thone and fortith Betweene S r John 

 Benett of the Cittye of London Knight of thone parte and William Benett 

 the elder of Marleborough in the countie of Wiltes Esquier Brother of 

 the sayd S r John Benett on thother parte Whereas the right Honorable 

 S r Edward Seymour Knight Baron Beauchatnpe Earle of Hertford by 

 an Indenture of lease under his hand and seale bearing date the seaventh 

 daie of Maie last past before the date of theis presentes for the con- 

 sideracions therein specified did demise betake and to ferme lett to the 



