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Certain Old Documents relating to the 



It will be noticed that one of the signatures is that of Owen 

 Rowe, a colonel in the Parliamentary Army, and one of the regicides 

 who signed the death-warrant of Charles I. He was a descendant 

 of Sir Thomas Rowe, Kt., Lord Mayor of London in 1568. He 

 died a prisoner in the Tower of London, and was buried at Hackney 

 amongst his relatives, 27th December, 1661. If the conveyance is 

 compared with the enrolled copy in the Court of Chancery, dated 

 28th May, 1650 (Close Roll, 1650, Part 6, No. 32), various dis- 

 crepancies will be found ; discrepancies very likely to occur when so 

 many confiscated estates had to be enrolled about the same time. 

 For example, there are no signatures to the enrolled transcript; 

 « Uffcott" is called " UfFord " ; " Jane Weare " is put for " James 

 Weare " ; and there is a small mistake in the value of the yearly 

 rent paid by the former lessees to the Chapter. The owner of the 

 deed of conveyance is Mr. John W. Brown, now living in Broad 

 Hinton, and who is possibly a descendant of the John Weare, alias 

 Browne, alluded to in the document. 



" This Indenture made the eight & twentieth day of May in the year of 

 our Lord God, according to the computation of the Church of England, one 

 thousand six hundred and fifty, between S r . John Woolaston Knight, Robert 

 Tichborne, Thomas Noel, Marke Hilodsley, Stephen Estwicke, William Hobson, 

 Thomas Arnold, Owen Roe, George Langham, John Stone, John White, William 

 Wyberd, Daniell Taylor, William Rolf and Rowland Wilson, Esquires, being (by 

 two several acts of this present Parliament the one entitled an act of the Commons 

 of England in Parliament assembled for the abolishing of Deans, Deans and 

 Chapters, Canons, Prebends, & other Offices & Titles of or belonging to any 

 Cathedral or Collegiate Church or Chapel within England and Wales, & the other 

 entitled an act with further instructions to the Trustees, Contractors, Treasurers, 

 and Registrars for the sale of the lands and possessions of the late Deans, Sub 

 Deans, Deans & Chapters, & for the better & more speedy execusion of the 

 former acts, commands & instructions made concerning the same), Persons, 

 trusted for the conveying of such of the lands & possessions of the said late 

 Deans, Deans & Chapters, Canons, Prebends and other persons named in the said 

 Acts, as by the same acts respectively are vested and settled in the said Trustees 

 & their heirs in such sort as in the said acts respectively is mentioned of the one 

 part, & John Weare alias Browne of the parish of Martins-in-the-fields, in the 

 County of Middlesex Gent, of the other part Witnesseth that the said Sir John 

 Woolaston, Robert Tichborne, Thomas Noel, Marke Hilodsley, Stephen Est- 

 wicke, William Hobson, Thomas Arnold, Owen Roe, George Langham, John 

 Stone, John White, William Wyberd, Daniell Taylor, William Rolf, & Rowland 

 Wilson, in obedience to the said acts respectively & by virtue thereof & in execu- 



