| Barcroft
and
Parkefield
X | a double fine of 10s8d whereas divers strifes disputes and discords are moved and had between
Jn Farthing
and
Eliz
his wife cousin and next heir of
Simon Lingwood
deceased and
Nich Cherche
cousin and next heir of
Agnes Rogers
daughter and heir of
Jn Rogers
deceased viz for one croft of land called
Barcrofte
containing by estimation 6a of land or more etc and one other croft of land called
Parkefield
containing 4a2r or more etc lying near the lord's park the aforesaid parties as well by their own proper consent and will as by the advisement of their friends have put themselves to the arbitrationment of the lord and his counsel learned in the law and the lord of his special favour with his foresaid counsel have taken upon them to make an arbitrationment and ordinance between the foresaid parties concerning the premises in manner and form following viz that the foresaid
Nich Cherche
shall have and enjoy to him and his heirs the foresaid two crofts of land with the appurtenances to hold of the lord as of this manor by the rod by the ancient rents and services before due and of right accustomed and hereupon the lord commanded
Jn Chyrche
steward of the court there to admit the said
Nich Cherche
to the foresaid two crofts of land whereupon the foresaid steward by the lord's commandment admitted the said
Nich
to the foresaid two crofts of land with the appurtenances on
the morrow after the epiphany of the lord 7.1.last past
to which
Nich
by the said steward of the lord there is seisin thereof delivered as to the hands of
Edm Allen
the deputy of the said
Nich
to hold to the same
Nich
and his heirs of the lord by the rod etc and hereupon the said day and year and in the place aforesaid
Jn Farthinge
and
Eliz
his wife and the same
Eliz
alone and secretly examined by the lord's steward confessed and for a certain sum of money to them by the foresaid
Nich Cherche
by the hands of the said
Edm Allen
paid remised released and always for them and the heirs of the said
Eliz
quitclaimed forever to the foresaid
Nich Cherche
and his heirs in their peaceable possession being all their right title estate claim interest and demand whichever they had have or by any means hereafter may have or have of and in the foresaid two crofts of land with the appurtenances viz so that neither the foresaid
Jn Farthinge
nor their heirs nor any for them or in their names may or ought hereafter claim or challenge any right title estate claim interest or demand of and in the foresaid two crofts of land with the appurtenances nor in any parcel thereof but shall be clean abarred from all action of right forever by these presents and afterward viz on
saturday in easter 6Edw6 21.5.1552
the foresaid
Nich Cherche
came before
Jn Churche
the steward aforesaid at Maldon in the county of Essex in the presence of
Jn Culverton
and
Antho Sparrowe
the lord's tenants and surrendered into the lord's hands the foresaid two crofts of land with the appurtenances to the use of
Edm Allen
his heirs and assigns who came to this court and craved to be admitted thereunto and he is admitted the lord's tenant thereof to whom by the lord's steward there is seisin thereof delivered to hold to him his heirs and assigns of the lord by the rod etc and he giveth fine and made fealty
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