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ECR 41 311

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ECR 41 311

Title

Cookham, Bray and Maidenhead, Berkshire: Copy of letters patent

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Item

Date

18 June 1607

Content description

Copy of letters patent of lease by James I to William Molins, gentleman, of (inter alia) 66½ acres of mowable meadow, parcels of the royal manor of Cookham, viz. in Balingmeade 29 acres, in le Mershe 31 acres, in Westwithbrooke 3½ acres, in Diddenham 2 acres [there appears to be 1 acre unaccounted for]. For 40 years. Rent £4 19s 9d also 32s for the price of 2 sheep for the provision of the King's household at Michaelmas and Lady day.
18 June 1607.
Followed (f.3) by a petition by Henry Hobarte, [Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Bart., Attorney General] to Thomas [Sackville], Earl of Dorset, Lord High Treasurer, Sir Julius Caesar, Knight, chancellor of the court of Exchequer, Sir Laurance Tanfeelde, Knight, lord chief baron of the same court, and to the rest of the barons there, for sub-poenas to Thomas Farmar, Henry Manfeelde, Christopher Babham, Thomas Waller, esquires, John Turnar, John Kenton, John Sharpe, William Woodiar, gentlemen, William Kember, Robert Salter, William Cutlar, Thomas Lutman, yeoman, George Weldon and Humfrey Newberry, esquires, Thomas Browne, steward of the manor, and Richard Malthowse, gentleman, to appear in the Exchequer Chamber in order to establish the King's title to the meadows aforesaid.
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