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N. V.

An OBLIGATION, or BOND, with CONDITION for the Payment of Money.

Row all Men by thefe Prefents that I David Edwards, of Lincoln's Inn in the County of Middlesex, Efquire, am held and firmly bound to Abraham Barker of Dale-Hall in the County of Norfolk, Esquire, in ten thoufand Pounds of lawful Money of Great Britain, to be paid the faid Abraham Barker, or his certain Attorney, Executors, Adminiftrators, or Affigns; for which Payment well and truly to be made, I bind myself, my Heirs, Executors, and Adminiftrators, firmly by thefe Prefents, fealed with my Seal. Dated the fourth Day of September in the twenty first Year of the Reign of our fovereign Lord GEORGE the fecond by the Grace of God King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, and fo forth, and in the Year of our Lord one thoufand, feven hundred, and forty feven.

The Condition of this Obligation is fuch, that if the above bounden David Edwards, his Heirs, Executors, or Administrators, do and fhall well and truly pay, or cause to be paid, unto the above named Abraham Barker, his Executors, Adminiftrators, or Affigns, the full Sum of five thousand Pounds of lawful British Money, with lawful Intereft for the fame, on the fourth Day of March next enfuing the Date of the above written Obligation, then this Obligation shall be void and of none Effect, or else fhall be and remain in full Force and Virtue.

Sealed, and delivered, being David Edwards. (L. S.) firft duly ftamped, in the

prefence of

George Carter.
William Browne.

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No. VI.

A FINE of Lands, fur Cognizance de Droit, come ceo, &c.

§. 1. Writ of Covenant; or, PRAECIPE.

EORGE the fecond by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, and fo forth; to the Sheriff of Norfolk, Greeting. Command Abraham Barker, Efquire, and Cecilia his Wife, and John Barker, Esquire, that juftly and without delay they perform to David Edwards, Efquire, the Covenant made between them of two Meffuages, two Gardens, three hundred Acres of Land, one hundred Acres of Meadow, two hundred Acres of Pafture, and fifty Acres of Wood, with the Appurtenances, in Dale; and unless they fhall fo do, and if the said David fhall give you Security of profecuting his Claim, then fummon by good Summoners the faid Abraham, Cecilia, and John, that they appear before our Juftices, at Weftminster, from the Day of Saint Michael in one Month, to fhew wherefore they have not done it: And have you there the Summoners, and this Writ. Witnefs Ourself at Westminster, the ninth Day of Qctober, in the twenty first Year of our Reign.

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Summoners of the

within named A.

Richard Roe. brabam, Cecilia,

and Jobn.

§. 2. The Licence to agree.

John Den.

Richard Fen,

Norfolk, David Edwards, Efquire, gives to the to wit Lord the King ten Marks, for Licence to agree with Abraham Barker, Ffquire, of a Plea of Covenant of two Meffuages, two Gardens, three hundred Acres of Land, one hundred Acres of Meadow, two hundred

Acres

Acres of Pafture, and fifty Acres of Wood, with the Ap- N°. VI. purtenances, in Dale.

$.3. The Concord.

And the agreement is fuch, to wit, that the aforefaid Abraham, Cecilia, and John, have acknowledged the aforefaid Tenements, with the Appurtenances, to be the Right of him the faid David, as those which the faid David hath of the Gift of the aforefaid Abraham, Cecilia, and John; and those they have remised and quitted Claim, from them and their Heirs, to the aforefaid David and his Heirs for ever. And further, the fame Abraham, Cecilia, and John, have granted, for themselves and their Heirs, that they will warrant to the aforefaid David, and his Heirs, the aforefaid Tenements, with the Appurtenances, against all Men for ever. And for this Recognition, Remife, Quit-Claim, Warranty, Fine, and Agreement, the faid David hath given to the faid Abraham, Cecilia, and John, two hundred Pounds fterling.

§. 4. The Note, or Abftra&t.

Norfolks plainant, and Abraham Barker, Efquire, and

Between David Edwards, Efquire, Com

to Cecilia his Wife, and John Barker, Efquire, Deforciants, of two Meffuages, two Gardens, three hundred Acres of Land, one hundred Acres of Meadow, two hundred Acres of Pasture, and fifty Acres of Wood, with the Appurtenances, in Dale, whereupon a Plea of Covenant was fummoned between them; to wit, that the said Abraham, Cecilia, and John, have acknowledged the aforefaid Tenements, with the Appurtenances, to be the Right of him the faid David, as thofe which the faid David hath of the Gift of the aforefaid Abraham, Cecilia, and John; and thofe they have remifed and quitted Claim, from them and their Heirs, to the aforefaid David and his Heirs for ever. And further, the fame Abraham, Cecilia, and John, have granted for themselves, and their Heirs, that they will warrant to the aforefaid David, and his Heirs, the aforefaid Tenements, with the Appurtenances, against all Men for ever. And for this Recognition, Remife, Quit-Claim, Warranty, Fine, and Agreement,

the

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the faid David hath given to the faid Abraham, Cecilia, and John, two hundred Pounds sterling.

§. 5. The Foot, Chirograph, or Indentures, of the FINE.

Norfolk, This is the final Agreement, made in to wit. the Court of the Lord the King at Westminfter, from the Day of Saint Michael in one Month, in the twenty first Year of the Reign of the Lord GEORGE the fecond by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before John Willes, Thomas Abney, Thomas Burnet, and Thomas Birch, Justices, and other faithful Subjects of the Lord the King then there prefent, between David Edwards, Efquire, Complainant, and Abraham Barker, Efquire, and Cecilia his Wife, and John Barker, Esquire, Deforciants, of two Meffuages, two Gardens, three hundred Acres of Land, one hundred Acres of Meadow, two hundred Acres of Pasture, and fifty Acres of Wood, with the Appurtenances, in Dale, whereupon a Plea of Covenant was fummoned between them in the faid Court; to wit, that the aforefaid Abraham, Cecilia, and John, have acknowledged the aforefaid Tenements, with the Appurtenances, to be the Right of him the faid David, as those which the faid David hath of the Gift of the aforefaid Abraham, Cecilia, and John; and those they have remifed and quitted Claim, from them and their Heirs, to the aforefaid David and his Heirs for ever. And further, the fame Abraham, Cecilia, and John, have granted, for themselves and their Heirs, that they will warrant to the aforefaid David and his Heirs, the aforefaid Tenements, with the Appurtenauces, against all Men for ever. And for this Recognition, Remife, Quit-Claim, Warranty, Fine, and Agreement, the faid David hath given to the faid Abraham, Cecilia, and John, two hundred Pounds fterling.

§. 6. Proclamations, endorfed upon the FINE, according to the Statutes.

The first Proclamation was made the fixteenth Day of November, in the Term of Saint Michael, in the twenty firft Year of the King withinwritten.

THE

The fecond Proclamation was made the fourth Day of February, in the Term of Saint Hilary, in the twenty first Year of the King withinwritten.

The third Proclamation was made the thirteenth Day of May, in the Term of Eafter, in the twenty first Year of the King withinwritten.

The fourth Proclamation was made the twenty eighth Day of June, in the Term of the holy Trinity, in the twenty fecond Year of the King withinwritten.

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A common RECOVERY of Lands, with * double
Voucher.

§. 1. Writ of Entry fur Diffeifin in the Poft; or, PRAECIPE.

EORGE the fecond by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, and fo forth; to the Sheriff of Norfolk, Greeting, Command David Edwards, Efquire, that justly and without delay he render to Francis Golding, Clerk, two Meffuages, two Gardens, three hundred Acres of Land, one hundred Acres of Meadow, two hundred Acres of Pafture, and fifty Acres of Wood, with the Appurtenances, in Dale, which he claims to be his Right and Inheritance, and into which the faid David hath not Entry, unless after the Diffeifin, which Hugh Hunt thereof unjustly, and without judgment, hath made to the aforefaid Francis, within thirty Years now last past, as he faith, and whereupon he complains that the afore faid David deforceth him. And unless he shall so do, and if the faid Francis fhall give you Security of profecuting his Claim, then fummon by good Summoners the faid David, that he appear before our Justices at Westminster, on the Octave of Saint Martin, to fhew wherefore he

Note, that if the Recovery be had with fingle Voucher, the Parte marked "thus" in §. 2. are omitted.

hath

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