MRP: C10/5/21 f. 2

C10/5/21 f. 2

//The Answeare of Thomas Barker Defendant to the Bill of Complaint of Edward Clovile and Anne his wife Tobell Aylmer John Higden//
//Edward Burton and Ellen his wife Edward Shelton George Bently George Weale Richard Mounford and [Blank léeft in original document by clerk] Grey, Comp:lts//

//?The Advantages and benefitt of Excepccon to the manifold incertainties and insufficiencyes in the Comp:lts said Bill of Complyant XXXXX and att all tymes of or after saved and reserved unto this Defend:t for Answeare whereunto this Defend:t saith that true is that the Comp:lt Edward Clovile by Indentures//
//bearing Date the 1:st day of September in the 22:th yeere of the Raigne of the late King Charles of England Did Demise and Grannt unto this Defend:t (exceptinge as withesaid lease is excepted) All that Capitall Messuage and Mansion house in the Comp:lts Bill mencconed w:th Outhowses//
//Barnes Stables yards Gardens and Orchards thereinto belonginge and alsoe all the pastures Meadowes Ground and ?feedinge thereunto apperteyninge ?then ?Impaled and with the Tenure or Occupaccon of the Comp:lt Edward Clovile or XXXXXXXXX conteyninge togeather//
//by estimaccon 80 Acres more or lesse to have and to hould from the feast of S:t Michaell the ArchAngell ?hence & ?continuinge unto the full end and tearme of 7 yeares for and under the yeerly Rent of 60:li of lawfull money of England payable as here in is expressed//
//vizt upon the 26:th day of December then next following the somme of fifteene pounds And upon the 24:th day of June then next following 30:li And upon the 25:th day of Decemb:r next followinge the somme of 30:li And soe from and after the said 25 day of December the somme of sixty pounds yeerly alwaies in and upon the feasts of S:t John//
//Baptist and the Birth of our Lord God by equall porcons att the dwelling howse of Phillip RXXXX in ?Westhanningbury in the County of Essex ?formerly called great XXXXX And by the said Indenture the said Compl:lt Edward Clovile did Demise and XXXXX unto this Defend:t All those Lands Meadowes and Pastures Parte of the Inheritance of the said Compl:lt Edward Clovile called or knowne by//
//the name of ?Kenyas Meade and the 2 West feilds as they were then scituate in Westhammigfeild in the Bill ?and ?surrounded then in in the Occupaccon of ffrancis Jooffrey or his Assignes To hould from the feast of S:t Michaell theArchAngell then next followinge unto the full end and tearme//
//of 6 yeares for and under the yearly value of 20:li payable att the feast of the Nativity of S:t John Baptist And the Birth of our Lord God by Equall porcons As by the said Indenture of Lease in this Defend:ts hands ready to bee pduced (wherein is such provisoe conteyned to the//
//effect as is menconned in the Comp:lts said Bill) Where unto Reference beinge had more fully it my appeare whereupon this Defend:t entered & XXXXX possession of the premisses (In this Defend:t saith that afterwards videlt the 1:st of November 1648 this Defend:t did pay unto the said Clovile the said halfe yeares Rent due att Midsomer before in the//
//said Bill XXXXXXed accordinge to his Lease As by Acquittance under the said Cloviles owne hand ready to bee pduced to this honoble Court may appeare hee this Defend:t not knowinge to whom els hee should pay the summe never beinge by Aylmer or any other Demanded//
//of this Defend:t And that before the other halfe yeares Rent alsoe menconned in the said Bill of Comp:lt was due or payable XXXX about the beginninge of December 1648 one Thomas Browne of London ?Cezoror ex?tended the p:rmisses beinge then in his the Defend:ts possession by//
//vertue of an Elegit to the Sheriffe of Essex Directed bearinge ?Teste the 23:o of October 1648 upon Judgm:t for 400:li debt and 70:li Costs of Suite obteyned and entered by XXXX and Thomas Browne ag:t the said Edward Clovile in the Court of Common Pleas att Westminster with tearme of//
//S:t Michaell 1647 As by ?y:e ?records of the said Court whereunto for certainty therein hee this Defend:t doth referr himselfe It doXX and may more fully appeare And possession of the p:rmisses was hereupon by vertue of the said Elogitt Delivered to the said Thomas Browne Whereupn this Defend:t by Advice of his//
//Counsell did Attorne Tenant to the said M:r Browne and paid unto him the Rent due upon his said Lease att the said ffeasts of the Birth of our Lord God 1648 As this Defend:t was Advised was lawfull for him to doe And for w:ch cause this Defend:t hath refused to pay the Comp:lts Clovile & Ailmer//

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