By the Rev. W. H. Jones. 



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COPY OF THE ORIGINAL DEED 



RELATING TO 



Centmkt's Cnitotawits at Cwfobtibjje. 



C0 alle Crefoe Chrteten People to whome this present writing 

 indented tripartite shalle come, I JAMES TERUMBERE of Trowbrigge, 

 in the Counte of Wilteshire, marchaunt, sende greting in owre Lord God ever- 

 lasting : — (JJSHhereatf I the saide James have by my dede of feoffement with 

 a warraunt of attornney in the same sealled with my seale bering date the 

 xiiii th day of Januarie the first yeare of the reigne of King Richard the thrid, 

 enfeoffed Henry Long, Thomas Tropenell, Humphrey Seymour, Squiers; Waltier 

 Dauntesey, JohnKaynell, Thomas Halle, John Frensshe, Edward Baron, James 

 Halle, William Raynolde, William Alcombe, William More, William Longe, 

 Walter Barbour, William Clyvelode, Reynolde Whytechurch, Thomas Adams, 

 John Solas, Waltier Whyte, John Sely, Thomas Lovell, John Gore thelder, 

 John Gore the yonger, John Stephyns, John Dober, Richard Pyper, William 

 Sylcockys, John Smyth the elder, John Smyth the yonger, William Bygge, 

 Thomas Boye, Nicholas Twyney,Jamys Longe, James Whyte, and Jamys Barbour, 

 and totheym pleynly delyvered season 1 by John Holme and Robert Dasshet myn 

 attourneys in this behalve named in the saide warant of and in alle my mesuages, 

 londes, tenementes, medowes, lesues, pastures, wodes, rentes, reversions and 

 services with thappurtenaunces in Trowbrigge, Stodeley, Broughton Gy^fforde 

 and Bradtforde in the Countie of Wilteschire and Bekyngton in the Countie of 

 Somersette: — Co !)at>e to theym and to their heirs for ever to thuse and 

 entente to perfourme thereof the wille of me the saide James Terumbere ; — 

 l&ttOtoe that I the saide James Terumbere by these presentes declare 

 my wille and entente of and upon the saide feoffement touching the saide londes 

 and tenements with thappurtennces in fourme folowing, that is to say, jftrjst 

 that the saide ffeoffees and every of them and alle othre theire estate hereafter 

 having, shalle pleinly perfourme fulfille and observe my wille and ordeynce by 

 me ordeyned and hereafter declared, that is to wite, Cf)at alle the saide 

 ffeoffees and every of them shall within seven dayes after that thei be required 

 by me the saide James Terumbere by thadvise of my lerned counsaile make a 

 lawfulle gifte and graunte by theyr dede sufficient in lawe to me the saide 

 James Terumbere of and in an annuell rent of xvi 11 by the yere going 

 oute of the said londes and tenementes and other premisses with the appurten- 

 aunces, Co have and perceyve the saide annuelle rente to me the saide James 

 Terumbere and to myn assignes for terme of my lyfe atte the festes of Ester, 

 Nativite of Saint John Baptiste, Saint Michell tharchaungele, and Nativite of 

 our Lob.de God, by even porcions with a clause of distresse in the saide dede to 

 be conteyned to distreyn in the same londes and tentes for the arrerages of the 

 same rente if it be behinde unpaide in parte or in alle by a moneth after any fest 

 of payment thereof : — Qxxii QUa that the saide feoffees and every of theim 



* That is, seisin, or, legal possession. 



