| my brother
Wm Tiffin
and
Eliz
his daughter | 18.1.1649 19.1.1649
memo the days and year abovesaid I paid in my brother
Tiffin
after the death of my sister
Tiffin
about a month or five weeks the sum of 300li upon agreement that the deed of 500li which I was to pay him should be disannulled and void and he gave me a release accordingly under his hand and seal witnesses unto it my cousin
Josscelyne
esq the lawyer mr
Ralph Josscelyne
our minister my cousin
Ed Elliston
Robt Johnson
and
Robt Crowe
my servants and I paid the 300li in the presence of his brother
Jn Smith
gentleman and mr
Wm Stephens
his brother who told the money for him in
Colne Priory
parlour then likewise I gave him a new bond of 300li to pay him more a 150li within three months at
Colne Priory
after the death of his daughter
Eliz Tiffin
if so be she dies afore marriage or the age of twenty one years but if she live unto either of those times I am to pay her the 150li for her portion and to that purpose I gave another bond of 300li unto my cousin
WH
and my cousin
Ed Elliston
who hath the bond to pay her a 150li at her day of marriage or age of twenty one years which shall first happen and to maintain her with the interest in the mean time the other 50li was given to me by my brother
Tiffin
because that I had spent a 100li or thereabouts in my sister's lying in and maintaining the child six years and more at my own charge and in my sisters last sickness and funeral yet if the child
Eliz Tiffin
lives to age and carries herself well I intend if god bless me to give her the 50li but if she dies by no means to my brother
Tiffin
the child was baptised in Earls Colne parish
5.7.1642
as appeareth by the register notwithstanding my old deed and the bond of 800li to pay 500li after my sister's death is not delivered in because they say they have lost them but they promise if they can find them faithfully to return them and my brother
Wm Tiffin
and mr
Andrew Smith
fetched away the 300li which I paid them and left with
Robt Johnson
to keep for them this
22.1.1649
they carried it away and gave
Robt Johnson
my servant a receipt for it under his hand and seal
Rich Harlakenden
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