520 JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
"This Indenture made the fiuethe daie of Julye in the fower 
and Thirthith yere of the Eaigne of o r soueraigne Lady Elyzabeth 
by the grace of godd Queene of England Fraunce & Ireland De- 
fender of the faithe &c. Between S r Edmond Anderson Knighte 
lorde cheyf Justice of the Courte of Comon plees, and Thorns 
Gente stroud Baron of her Ma ts Courte of Exchequer Justices of 
Assise of the Countie of Deuon of thone partie, and the Mayo r 
and Coialtie of the Boroughe of Plimouthe in the said Countie 
of thother partie, whereas it was enacted in the Parliam 1 holden in 
the seauen & Twentithe yere of the Eaigne of o r said sou r aigne 
Lady 
[Here the chief provisions of the Water Act are set forth.] 
" And whereas the said Maio r and Coyaltie after the said feaste 
of Easter haue digged mined and trenched and caused to be digged 
mined and trenched one ditche or Trenche containing in breadthe 
betwene sixe and seuen foote in over and throughe the Lands & 
grounds lyeinge betwene the said Towne of Plymouthe, and some 
pte of the said Eiuer of Meawe als Meavye, and digged mined 
brocken banked and caste vppe all manner of Kocks stones grauell 
sande and all other letts in the groundes and places convenient 
before menconed, for the convenyent or necessarie conveyeng of 
the said Eiuer to the same Towne of Plymouthe pte of w ch Lands 
& grounds soe digged mined trenched is thinheritance of Walter 
Elford gent beinge in thoccupacon & possessione of one Willm 
Stockeman and ouer and throughe the Lands & inheritance of the 
said Walter Elford and of Thomas Elford beinge in the possession 
& occupacon of one Walter Elford John Elford and Johan Sop 
widdowe tennts or farmo rs of the same eyther solelie to themselues 
or ioyntlie or in Comon w*h some others, and ouer & through 
certen Lands & grounds being the Inheritaunce of Nicholas 
Slanning esquire pte thereof being in the seu r all occupacon . . . 
of one John Shellowbeare, Walter Elford, John Andrewe, wm 
Poleslande & John Ashe beinge tennts or farmo rs . . . and ouer & 
throughe certen other Lands & grounds of the said Nicholas 
Slanninge called the Comons of Bickleighe Downe als Eowboroughe 
Downe and . . . being thinheritance of Walter Hele of Brixton 
gent pte whereof beinge in the possessione or occupacon of Eychard 
Bunsall . . . and . . . thinheritance of one Eychard Bunsall 
beinge in the seu r all occupacon ... of one John Andrewes & 
Walter Braye . . . and ouer and throughe certen other Lands & 
Grounds of the said Walter Hele & the heires of Walter Elford 
deceased, and of the lands and grounds of the heires of John 
Brendon deceased, and of the lands and grounds of the heires of 
Eychard Bunsall deceased called the Comons of Hennodon and 
ouer and through certen Lands and grounds of the heires of 
Milleton and of Phillipp Crimes gent and . . . Lands and grounds 
beinge thinheritance of the said Phillipp Crimes pte thereof beinge 
in the seu r all occupacon ... of John Hearne Eychard Crosse 
