ECR 16 B 028
ECR 16 B 028
The Ball, Holborn, London: Copy of order concerning rent
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26 April 1583
Copy of an order in the Court of Requests, in the suit between William Daye, Provost, and the College of Eton, plaintiffs, and John Clayton, defendant, concerning a rent of 20s with the arrears thereof from a tenement lying near a conduit in Holborne, in the tenure of the defendant. For 30 years the plaintiffs have been seised of the rent, paid to them by the Master and Company of Cordwainers, late owners in fee of the premises, who, when they sold the same to the defendant, informed him that the rent was payable. Decree that the defendant is to pay the said rent, and before 1 June next all arrears.
Signed: Thomas Sekford, Valentine Dale, David Lewes. (Compared with the Register: Richard Oseley).
Signed: Thomas Sekford, Valentine Dale, David Lewes. (Compared with the Register: Richard Oseley).
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