Freehold Titles (ERO D/Q6/1/4 Wm Adams appointment as schoolmaster by the earl of Oxford)

8.12.1605 3Jas1 (Tuesday 8 December 1605)

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8.12.3Jas1 to all true christian people to whom this present writing shall come or be seen Hen de Vere earl of Oxenford viscount Bulbecke lord of Badlesmere and Scales and lord great chamberlain of England sendeth greeting in our lord god everlasting know ye that I the said earl of Oxenford have nominated appointed and authorized and by this my writing subscribed with my hand and sealed with my seal of arms I do appoint and fully authorize my trusty and well beloved Wm Adams of Earls Colne in the county of Essex master of arts by himself or by his sufficient deputy to teach free grammar school in Earls Colne aforesaid during the natural life of the said Wm Adams and I do hereby further authorize and appoint the said Wm Adams and his deputy or assignee to ask demand receive and take the yearly rent of 20li10s of lawful money of England reserved out of certain lands and tenements situate lying and being in the several parishes of Ardley Stisted Marks Tey Messing and Coggeshall in the said county of Essex that is to say the yearly rent of 6li13s4d reserved out of certain lands and tenements called Fenhouse in Ardley aforesaid the like yearly rent of 6li13s4d reserved out of certain lands and tenements called Pickstones in the said parish of Stisted and also the yearly rent of 4li reserved out of certain messuages lands and tenements in Messing aforesaid and also the yearly rent of 40s reserved out of certain lands and tenements in Marks Tey aforesaid called Potts and also the yearly rent of 23s4d reserved out of a house in Coggeshall aforesaid by one indenture of lease heretofore made to one Simon Ive bearing date the 19.12.26Eliz1 as by the perusal of the said indenture of lease more plainly appeareth in witness whereof I the said earl have hereunto set my hand and seal the 8.12.3Jas1 Hen Oxenford