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26 May, This Indenture made the sixe and twentyeth daye of May 

 1621. in the yeare of the raigne of our Soveraigne Lord James by 

 the Grace of God of England France and Ireland King, 

 Defender of the Fayth etc. the nineteenth and of Scotland the fowre and 

 fiftyeth Betweene S r John Benet th'elder of the Citty of London Knight 

 on the one party, and William Benet the third sonne of the sayd S r John 

 Benet of Grayes Inne in the County of Middlesex Gentleman on th'other 

 party, Whereas the Right Honorable S 1 ' Edward Seymour knight Baron 

 of Beauchamp Earle of Hertford by an indenture of lease vnder his hand 

 and seale bearing date the seventeenth daye of May in the sixt yeare of 

 the raigne of our Soveraigne Lorde King James over England for the 

 considerations therein specifyed did demyse betake and to ferme lett to 

 the sayd S r John Benet his executors administrators and assignees All 

 those his messuage and toft heretofore demised called or knowne by the 

 name of two tenements scituate lying and being in Costowe in the 

 County of Wilts neere vnto the sayd Earle his Grange called Studley 

 Grange in the sayd County of Wiltes together with all orchards gardens 

 inward and outward courts or yardes howses edifices buildings barnes 

 and all other his arable lands meadowes pastures feedings and other 

 hereditaments to the sayd mesuage or toft or two tenements or to eyther 

 of them belonging or in any wise appertaining lying and being within 

 the parish of Wroughton in the sayd County of Wilts late in the tenure 

 manurance or occupation of William Benet th'elder of Maryborough in 

 the County of Wilts Esquire or of his assignee or assignees together with 

 all commons commodityes common of pasture wayes easementes and 

 profitts to the said premisses belonging or in any wise appertayning 

 in as large ample and beneficiall manner and forme as the sayd William 

 Benet th'elder or his assignees had or at any time held occupied or 

 injoyed the same (except as in the sayd indenture is excepted) To have 

 and to hold all and singular the prcemisses witli theyrand every of theyr 

 appurtenaunces (except as in the sayd indenture is excepted) Vnto the 

 sayd S r John Benet his executors administrators and assignees from the 

 feast of the Annuntiation of the Blessed Virgin S' Mary then last past 

 for the terme of fowerscore and nineteene yeares (if Anne Benet wife of 

 the sayd William Benet th'elder of Maryborough, William Benet and 

 Matthew Benett sonnes of the sayd S r . John Benet or any of them 

 should so long live) for and vnder such rent exceptions conditions 

 covenants articles and agreements as in and by the sayd indenture of 

 lease (whereto reference being had) are reserved mentioned expressed and 

 contayned and thereby more at large appeareth, And whereas by one 

 other indenture bearing date the sixteenth daye of June in the sixt yeare 

 of our Soveraigne Lord King James over England between S r John 

 Benet of the Citty of London knight on the one part, and the sayd 

 William Benet of Maryborough in the County of Wilts Esquire brother 

 of the said S r John Benet on the other part it is witnessed that the true 

 intent meaning and agreement of the sayd S r John Benet and 

 William Benet th'elder was that the sayd S 1 ' John Benet his executors 



