Hereafter ensueth the ancient several customs, of the several Manors of Stebbunhuth, and Hackney, 
Stebbunhuth, Hackney.  within the County of Middlesex, which were perused, viewed & approved, by the Lord of the said Manors, and by all the Copieholde Tenants of the said several Manors, many years past, and which customs be now again newly and fully considered off, ratified, allowed, and approved, by the right Honourable, Henry L. Wentworth, Lord of the said several Manors, and all the Copieholde tenants of the said Manors, as in the several Articles & agreements hereafter following are expressed, the x. day of November. 1587. And in the 29. year of the reign of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth, by the grace of God, Queen of England, France and Ireland, defender of the faith.  
INprimis, by the customs of the said manours, all the Copieholde Lands and tenements of the said manours, and of every of them, be, and always have been ancient copieholdes of inheritance in Feesimple, according to the several customs of the said manours, and of every of them, of which the same been severally holden, except such parts and parcels of the said manours, or of either of them, being of the demesne lands, and of the wastes of the said manours, and of either of them, which have not been granted out by the Lord or Lords of the same, to hold by copy of Court roll, but sithence the beginning of the reign of the queen's Majesty that now is, which parts and parcels so granted to hold by copy of court roll. are and be excepted, and are meant to be excepted out of these Articles, ratification and agreement, and also all other the lands, tenements, and hereditaments, mentioned and specified in the second schedule to these presents annexed, which are and shallbe of no other validity and force than they should have been of, if these articles and agreements had never been made. And all copies have been time out of mind, and be made to hold of the Lord by the rod, according to the custom of the said manours, by the rents, customs, suits and services, therefore due and accustomed.  
2 Item, the rents of all the tenements, both freeholders, and coppieholders, which hold any meswages, cottages, lands, tenements, or hereditaments of the said manours, or of any of them is yearly payable at the feast of saint Michael Tharchangell, to the Lord and his heirs, the same to be collected by Reeves of the said manors, to be yearly chosen, as hereafter is expressed, and all and every the coppieholde Tenants, shall hereafter pay so much rend as any of them have paid within two years last passed for their several coppieholds, & that if any one of the said coppieholds, for the which any entire quitrent is now paid, shall come into several hands, the said rent shall be apporcioned by thomage.  
3 Item, all the coppieholde Tenants, which now be, or hereafter for the time being shallbe, aught to appear yearly at two general Courts holden for the said manors, or for either of them. And also so many of them at all other set or appointed Courts, set, appointed, or kept, or to be set, appointed, or kept, for the said manors, or for either of them, or for the Lord or Lords of the said manors, or of either of them as shall be warned thereunto by the reeve or his sufficient deputy for the time being, and they to do their suits and services according to their tenors, except they be essoined, licensed, or have some other lawful excuse, upon the pain hereafter following, which general courts have been commonly kept, and are to be kept yearly th'one of them the Tuesdaie next after low Sundaye, & tother about the feast of Saint Andrew the apostle, upon reasonable warning.  
4 Item, if any of the customary or copieholde tenants of the said Manors, or of either of them, do or shall make default in their appearance at any of the said two general courts to which their suits shall be due, or if such copieholde tenants as shallbe especially warned to appear at any of the said set Courts in form aforesaid, yearly to be holden, do make default, to which the said suit is or shallbe due, and warning openly given in the parish churches within the said manours, of the day and place of the holding of the same general courts, & upon special warning to be given for the said several set Courts, that then they that shall so make default, except they be essoined, or have some other lawful or reasonable excuse, shall be amersed by the homage of the said Court or any of them, which amerciement shall be taxed by two Afferrours of the said Court. That is to say, by two Tenants of the homage, whereof the Steward of the said manours, or of either of them for the time being, hath always used to choose, and shall choose one for the Lord, and the residue of the homage then present, have chosen, and hereafter shall choose the other.  
5 Item, if any Tenant be Summoned to appear at any set Court or Courts to be holden within the said Manors, or in any of them, and doth appear upon the said Summons, he ought, and is to have for his pains iiij. d. and his dinner, or viii. d. and no dinner, which ought and is by the said custom to be paid by such person or persons who shall be the cause that any such Tenants do appear for his or their matter, so it be not for any matter or cause that concerneth an inquiry or presentment to be made concerning the Lord for the time being, his heirs or assigns.  
6 Item, the Copieholde Tenants of the said manours, and of either of them, aught to have every of them like allowance upon every view by them to be made, and upon every partition by them to be made, or upon other Summons to appear betwixt Tenant and Tenant, when they be appointed thereunto by precept from the Steward of the said manors, or of either of them for the time being, or by his sufficient deputy.  
7 Item, the homage of the Court of the said manours, or of any of them, may appoint six or seven Tenants upon aanie complaint to them made by any person or persons being tenants of the said manours, or of either of them in open Court, that he or they be wronged by any incrochment, or any other annoyance, which tenants shall after the said Court, view the same incrochment, annoyance, and impediment, or place whereof any such complaint shall be made, and thereupon to present or notify the same by a day to the Steward, or to the homage at the next general Court, that there may be set a pain or amerciement, or both, for the same, by the homage at the said next Court, according to the quality of the offence.  
8 Item, the homage of every of the said manours, are to make presentment at every general Court to be holden for the said manours, or for either of them, of all the customary or coppieholde tenants, that they shall know shall have died, after the Court than last passed, or at any time before the said court, whose deaths were not then found and presented, which shall have holden any customary or coppieholde Lands or tenements of the said manours, or of either of them. And also as near as they can, present what Lands they died seized of, and also of what estate, and when he died, and who is the next heir or heirs to the same person or persons so dying seized, and of what age or ages the said heir or heirs shall then be off as near as they can.  
9 Item, likewise the homage ought to present the deaths of freeholders, and when they died, and who be their next heirs, and the ages of their heirs which held any Lands or Tenements of the said manours, or of either of them, and the nature of their tenors, so near as they can, to th'intent the Lord may have his relief, which is but the value of one years quitrent of the Tenement holden of the said manours, or of either of them by Socage tenure.  
10 Item, if the homage at any of the said Courts of either of the said manours, shall not know who is next heir or heirs to any of the said customary tenants so dying seized, when they shall make their presentments, that then they shall make their presentment so accordingly, and then upon the said presentment, at the next general Court after the Steward of the said manors or of either of them, or his deputy for the time being, within which the said presentment shall so be made, shall cause a Proclamation to be made in open court, to th'intent every such heir or heirs may have knowledge to come and take up the Lands and tenements of his or their ancestors, and so the Steward or his deputy, shall cause a Proclamation to be made from general Court to general Court, until three open and public Proclamations be made in full Court, at three several general courts, which general Courts, by the said custom are used to be holden commonly one half year after another or there about, so that from the first Proclamation to the last, is full near one year and a half, which is about full two years from the presentment made by the said Homage of the dying seized, of the said last Tenant, unto the last Proclamation, and if there shall come no heir to the said Lands or Tenements, before the end of the said three Proclamations, to make his claim, and prove himself to the Homage of the said Court, in such sort as they shall allow off, to be the next heir of the whole blood, to the said tenant deceased, or to have title to the Land and tenements, nor to show and prove as aforesaid, who is or aught to be the next heir of the whole blood to the said Tenant deceased, or next heir expectant upon any estate determined, than the Lord of the said manours, or of either of them for the time being, shall and may after the said three Proclamations so to be made, seize the Lands and Tenements, which was the said persons so dying seized, whose next heir or such as shall have title thereunto cannot be found, or shall not come and make his or their claim and proof as aforesaid, and then to take the issues and profits thereof unto his own use, until such person or persons come that shall prove him or them next heir or heirs to the said person or persons so dying seized, and if none shall come within three years next after the third and last proclamation to be made as aforesaid, that shall and can convey and prove him or them to be next heir or heirs of the whole blood, or show and prove who is or aught to be next heir, or to have title, as next in remainder or reversion as aforesaid. That then the said Lands and tenements be forfeited, or shall escheat unto the Lord of the said Manor or manours, for the time being, except that if the said Lands & tenements, shall or ought immediately to descend, remain, revert, or come to any woman covert, or infant, within the age of xxi. years, or to any person or persons not of Sane memoriae, or that shall not be within the Realm, at the time of the death of the said last Tenant dying so seized, that then the Lord for the time being, shall have but the profits of the said Lands and tenements, until such persons or their heirs, shall come and make their claim as aforesaid, so the said claim be made within five years by the said woman or her heirs next after the death of her said husband, or by such person being within age, or his heirs within five years next after he shall or should accomplish his full age of twenty one years, and by the heir of such person of Non sane memoriae, within five years after the death of his said ancestor, or by the said person or his heirs that shall so be out of the Realm within five years after he shall return, or if he shall not return within five years after his death.  
11 Item, women are to have no dowers of any customary Lands or Tenements within the manours aforesaid, nor in any of them, nor men to have any estate as tenants by the courtesy of England.  
12 Item, if a man or woman shallbe seized of any customary Lands or tenements holden of the said manours, or of either of them, of an estate of inheritance, and shall have issue two Sons or three Sons, or more, or having no Sons, shall have divers Daughters, or having neither Sons nor Daughters, shall have divers collateral heirs, they shall be all coheir to their said Father, Mother, or other ancestor touching the said customary Lands and tenements, according to the custom of gavelkind.  
13 Item, if a man or woman die seized as aforesaid, of any customary Lands or tenements of any estate of inheritance holden of the said manours, or of any of them, and shall have issue two or three sons or more, whereof one or two or more of them shallbe married, and shall have issue in the life of their father or mother, and shall die before his or their said Father or Mother, or having no sons, shall have divers daughters, whereof one or more shallbe married, and have issue, and die in the life of the father or mother. That then the said issue shall inherit, and be coheir with the said son or sons, or daughter, that shall survive his or her said father or mother that so shall die seized, as is aforesaid, whether the said issue be Male or Female, according to the custom of gavelkind.  
14 Item, if any person or persons, die seized as aforesaid, and shall leave behind him neither son nor daughter, than the next of his or their kin being of whole blood, shallbe heir or heirs to the said person or persons so dying seized, that is to say, his or their brother, or brother's children, or children children, according to the custom of gavelkind and so forth, as long as any of that issue shallbe on live, being of the whole blood, and in default of such issue, the Sisters and Sisters children, according to the custom of Gavelkind, and so forth as long as any issue shallbe on live, and being of the whole blood, and for lack of such issue, the Uncles and their issues, being of the whole blood so long as any issue shallbe living. And no default of such issue, the Aunts and their children, so long as any shallbe living of the whole blood, & for lack of such issue, the next of kin of the whole blood, according to the custom of gavelkind.  
15 Item, If any person so dying seized as aforesaid, without issue of his body, and having divers brothers of the whole blood, whereof the one or some of them shall have been married, and shall have issue, and after issue had, shall die before the said brother dying seized, as aforesaid. That then the issues of the said brother or brothers so dying before him that died seized, as aforesaid, shall join and be coheyre with the brother that surviveth the brother that so died seized as aforesaid, whether the said issue be Males or Females. But Males and Females of one venture, can not join to be coheirs together, so that the course of discentes is to be observed by the said custom, according to the custom and nature of lands in gavelkind.  
16 Item, likewise shall the issue of the daughter that shall die in the life of the Father or Mother, be coheir with the Aunt that liveth, being of the whole blood.  
17 Item, likewise shall the Uncles, and the uncles brother's children, being of the whole blood, be coheirs together as aforesaid.  
18 Item, likewise shall the Aunts, and the Aunt's sister's children, join and be coheirs as aforesaid, and so forth of all further degrees of all collateral heirs, being of the whole blood, which may convey themselves to be any Cousins and heirs of the whole blood to any person or persons dying seized, of any of the foresaid customary Lands or Tenements, according to the custom of Gavelkind.  
19 Item, by the customs of the said several manours, every coppieholder of inheritance in fee simple, may surrender his said coppieholde Landes and Tenements, or any part or parcel thereof unto any person or persons, and to his or their heirs for ever, or to his or their heirs, of his or their bodies, or any other ways entail, or for life or lives, or years, or to any person or persons, and to their heirs, to th'intent the said coppieholde tenant may declare his last Will and Testament upon the same Lands and Tenements, or to any other use or uses, unless it be to any corporation or corporations, or bodies politic or corporate. And every coppieholder entail, for life, lives or years, of any of the said manours, may in like manner by the customs of the said Manuours, and of every of them, surrender their coppieholde Lands, or any part thereof, according to the nature of their estates, so the same surrender be made according to the custom concerning surrenders, as hereafter ensueth. And all the same persons to whose use every such surrender shallbe made, are to have their copies made to hold of the Lord by the Rod, according to the Custom of the said Manors, whereof they been severally holden, by the rents, customs, suits, and services therefore due and accustomed, upon every of which surrenders, the fine and fines for the same hereafter expressed is by the said customs to be paid.  
20 Item, By the custom of the said manours, and of every of them, every surrender taken out of the Court by the Headborow or reeve, or his deputy, and in the presence of six customary Tenants of the said manours, of which the said Lands or Tenements surrendered shallbe parcel, witnessing the same surrender of any person or persons of his or their customary Lands or Tenements holden of the said manours, or of either of them, and being of the full age of one and twenty years or upwards, except women coovert baron, and such as are not of perfect mind, to the use of any person or persons, shallbe as good as if it were taken in open court by the said Steward of the said manours, or of any of them, so that such surrenders be by Thomage presented as haereafter followeth.  
21 Item, By the said custom, no woman being covert baron, can make any good surrender of her Lands and tenements holden of the said Manors, or of either of them, either by the hands of the reeve or his deputy, or by the hands of the Headeborow, in the presence of the said six Tenants, saving in time of extremity of sickness or death, in either of which cases, she may by the said Custom together with her husband, surrender her said Lands and Tenements, holden of the said manours, or of either of them, by the hands of the reeve or Headeborowe, and six Tenants, and if any such woman covert baron so surrendering, do after that recover her health, and do not at the next general Court then following, ratify and confirm the same before the Steward or his deputy, in the presence of the Homage, that then the same surrender is to be void. And all surrenders made by any woman covert baron otherwise then in extremity of sickness or death, as is aforesaid be void, except such women covert baron, be solely examined before the Steward of the said manours, or of any of them, or his sufficient deputy, as hereafter followeth.  
22 Item, That all surrenders taken either by the reeve or his deputy, or by the Headborowe, for the time being, and in the presence of six customary tenants, aught to be by the Homage presented at the general Court holden for the said manours, after the taking thereof, or within one year and a day next after the taking of the same, if any such general Court be holden within the year and the day after the same surrender so taken, or else if no such general Court be holden within the year and the day, then to be by the same Homage presented at the next general Court to be holden after the same year and day, and then to be as good a surrender, as any surrender taken in open Court, or else all surrenders taken by the said reeve or his deputy, or by the said Headborow, and in the presence of six tenants, and not presented by the said homage, in manner and form aforesaid to be void.  
23. Item, The homage by the said custom, must write Billa vera upon every surrender by them presented, when they find the same surrenders agreeable to the custom, and also upon every other of their presentments they shall make Billa vera, when they be agreeable to the said custom, or else if the said homage receive any surrender, or other bills to them exhibited, which be repugnant to the custom of the said manours, or of either of them, they shall make upon every such surrender or bill, Ignoramus, or the like superscription, to th'intent it may be known to be nought, or else return such naughty surrenders or bills back again to the parties that exhibited the same.  
24 Item, By the custom of the said manours, and of every of them, every woman being covert baron, of the age of one and twenty years or upwards, having any customary Lands or tenements to her or her heirs, or for life, lives, or years, and holden of the said manours, or of either of them, may together with her husband, by the hands of the said Steward, or of his sufficient deputy, surrender all her said Lands and tenements, interest, or term of years, to the use of her said husband, or to any other person or persons, at their will and pleasure, so as she be solely and secretly examined before the Steward or his sufficient deputy, according to the ancient custom used in that case.  
25 Item, That all surrenders taken out of the court by the Steward of the said manours, or of any of them, or by his sufficient deputy, of any person or persons, being of the full age of one and twenty years or more, of any of their customary Lands and tenements holden of the said manours, or of either of them, be good by the custom of the said manours, and of either of them, and the same to be published and notified to the homage at the next general Court.  
26 Item, By the custom of the said manours, and of every of them, all surrenders at any time heretofore taken, or hereafter to be taken by the steward of the said manours, or of either of them, or by his sufficient deputy, out of the Court of any customary Lands or tenements holden of the said manours, or of either of them, of any person or persons, being of full age of xxi years as aforesaid, being entered into the Court rolls, of the Court next going before the taking of the same surrenders, although such surrenders were taken divers days, weeks, or months after the same Court, are and shallbe good and of force, by the custom of the said manours, and of every of them.  
27. Item, By the custom of the said manours, and of every of them, the Lord or Lords of the said Manors, or of either of them, aught to have at every admission of any one person, or more, upon a descent, and at every admission, and of any one person, only upon a surrender, or alienation to be made of every acre of Land or ground, being Coppieholde, xvi. d. for a fine, and so after that rate, and no more, and if any more than one be admitted upon a surrender, then to pay for every one so admitted, more than one half a fine, and also to have in like sort for a single fine for a meswage being Copiehold, xiii. S. iiii. d. and for a Tenement being Coppiehold, x. s. and for a Cottage being coppieholde, which shall not be let for above iii. li. by the year, xx. d. and for a Cottage being worth above iii. li. by the year to be let, to pay fine as before for a Tenement, and these fines to be set down in their several copies, and if any question arise about the decerning which be messwage, and which be Tenements, the same, by the same custom is to be tried by the presentment of the homage, & that the Lord of the said Manors, and of either of them, shall allow of every surrender made by any Coppieholder, according to these articles, not having made or committed any cause of forfeiture, contrary to the customs contained in these articles, and shall for the fine aforesaid, grant the said copy, holds, according to the said surrender, and admit such persons to whom the same surrender shall so be made, or to whom these Lands or tenements shall so descend accordingly, and if the said Lord shall refuse so to admit, yet the said persons to whom the said surrenders shallbe made, or to whom the said Land and tenements of right aught to descend, remain, or come, paying their fine, or tendering the same as aforesaid, shall quietly hold and enjoy the said Copy hold in like sort, as if he or they were lawfully admitted unto the same, and not otherwise.  
28 Item, By the custom, if any man make a surrender, only to the intent to make his wife a jointer, and to none other purpose, than the fine of the same is but half so much as it is upon other surrenders, alienations, or upon a dying seized as aforesaid. And the like custom is to be observed, where the husband and wife make a surrender of the Lands of the wife, to the end only to make an estate thereof to the husband jointly with his wife, and likewise by the said custom for every Tenant that shallbe admitted in reversion or remainder expectant, upon the estate of any particular tenant for life, in tail, or for years, granted by copy, the same is but half so much as it is upon other admittaunces upon alienations, surrenders, or dying seized, as aforesaid.  
29 Item, Every person that exhibiteth or delivereth any surrender or bill to the homage, aught to give and pay to the same homage for every such surrender or bill iiii. d. And by the said custom every of the said six tenants and also the headborough or reeve which shallbe at the taking of any surrenders as aforesaid, aught to have iiii. d. a piece, being taken within the said manours or in either of them. But if they go out of the said manors or either of them for the taking of the same, them to have viii. d. a piece, and their charges, if they shall go farther of: and the party that procureth the said surrender, aught to give to the said Tenants iiii. d. besides the said fees, which iiii. d. is delivered with the said surrender, or else he that bringeth in the said surrender without the said iiii. d. shall pay it of his own purse to the homage.  
30 Item, if it chance at any time upon the death of any copiholder or customary tenant, there is an heir or heirs found and presented by thomage, & which after are admitted to the lands & tenements of the said copieholder, at which time no other heirs were known, & after it chanceth that one or other cometh & claimeth to be coheir with the said heir, which is admitted, than the homage ought thereof to inquire, & if they find his claim true, they ought to present the same, & then he shallbe likewise admitted, and pay his fine, and have his part of the premises, notwithstanding the former admission.  
31 Item, if any man be admitted to any possession, or to any reversion or remainder of any lands or tenemtens, whether they be to him descended, as it is supposed, or to him surrendered by any other person, & after that cometh another person or people, who pretendeth a title to the whole premises, or to any part thereof, & willeth that homage to inquire thereof, in this case the said homage is not bound thereof to inquire, but he or they are driven to his or their suit or plaint whether his or their title be right or wrong, yet if he or they require the homage to find whether he or they were the son or sons of such a one or not, and the homage knowing the truth that he or they were the son or sons of such a one, the thing the homage ought to present, but not to present whether he or they ought to have the premises or any part thereof, to that which another person is already admitted, but in such case he or they shallbe driven to his or their suit or plaint as aforesaid, for the recovery of their said right, if any right they have.  
32 Item, after the death of every person being a customary tenant of the said manors, or of either of them, the next heir ought to come & take up the lands & tenements where of his ancestors so shall die seized, of what age soever he be of, & if he be of the age of xiiii. years or upwards, he is to be admitted in his own person within a convement time after he is presented, or else if he be under the age of xiiii. years, then to come & take it up by his Garden, until he be of th'age of xiiii. years as aforesaid, & to pay for his fine according to the rates aforesaid, & the garden to pay but iii. s. iiii. d at the most, for his fine for the guardianship, or less, at the discretion of the Steward.  
33 Item, likewise every person to whose use any of the said lands or tenements be surrendered, ought also to come within a convenient time after the same be presented, & take up the same by himself, if he be of age, & to be admitted, as aforesaid, and to pay his fine, or else buy his Garden, as aforesaid, and to take out his copy.  
34 Item, if any of the said heirs, alienees, or gardens, do not pay their fines within one month after the same fines be extracted, and the extracts delivered to the reeve or his deputy, for the gathering thereof, and by them or either of them demanded, than it shallbe lawful for the L. or Lords of the said manor or manours for the time being, or his or their officers, to distrain and avow as for rents, and for want of distress, to seize the lands and tenements, for the which the said fine or fines are to be paid, and to enjoy the same to his or their own use, until he or they shallbe fully satisfied and paid the said fine or fines, to be paid by him or them that so ought to pay the same.  
35 Item, if any customary or copiholde tenant of the said manours, or of either of them, shall not pay his rents for his copiehold, for which the same is due, and demanded by the said reeve, or his deputy, than it shallbe lawful for the lord or lords of the said Manor or manours for the time being, or his or their officers, to distrain and avow, and for want of distress, to seize the lands and tenements, out of the which the same aught to be paid, & to take & to enjoy the rents, issues & profits, of the same, to his or their own use, until he or they shallbe fully satisfied & paid the same rents, by him or them that so ought to pay the same.  
36 Item, that when any Tenant dieth, leaving his heir under th'age of xiiii. years, the custom is, that the next of the kin to whom the land and tenements can not descend, shall have if he shall require it, the custody of the heir, & of his lands and tenements committed unto him, until he come to thage of xiiii. years, and then he to choose his own garden.  
37 Item, if any person or persons be disposed to let his customary Lands or tenements, to any other person or persons, and to their executors and assigns for term of xxxi. years or less, the same person shall by the same custom of the said manours, upon request at a court holden, or to the Steward out of court, have a licence by him or them granted, paying for a fine to the lord after the rate of iiii. d. for every year so unto him granted, and no more, for so many years as he the same requireth, not exceeding xxxi. years. Nevertheless, by the said custom, it shallbe lawful for any person or persons to let his customary lands and tenements to any person and persons, and to their executors or assigns, for the term of three years, or less, by writing, or by word, without licence to him to be granted, and without paying any fine to the Lord, or incurring any forfeiture or seizure for the same, so the same lease do not exceed three years, from the date and making thereof.  
38 Item, The customs of the said manours is, to give to the Lord upon the change of every Lord, ten pounds, that is to say, out of each Manor five pound, for the recognition, and acknowledging of the services.  
39 Item, By the custom of the said manours and of either of them, the Homage of every of the said manours, do use yearly at the general Court to be holden next after Michaelmas, to elect and choose several Reeves, for every of the said manours, that is to say, to elect and choose two customary tenants to bear the office of the reeve, for each of the said manours, namely, he that was before in election, and one other to him, to the intent the Lord of the said manours or of either of them, or his Steward, may appoint the one of them so elected, for one whole year, for each of the said manours, so he be appointed within that Manor, of which he is a Tenant, and for the which he shallbe so chosen, which reeve so being appointed, aught by the custom of the said manours, to take upon him the said Office, for one whole year than next ensuing, to execute the same by himself, or his Deputy, for whom he shall answer, and to be subject to account and answer for the same, as heretofore they have been accustomed to do. And if a copieholder shallbe chosen to be the lords Reelie, according to his turn, and refuse to serve the said office by himself, or by his deputy, being appointed thereunto, as aforesaid, every such person so refusing, within the said Manor of Hackney, shall pay for a fine vi. li. xiii. s. iiii. d. and every such person so refusing, within the said Manor of Stebbunhuth, shall pay for a fine x. li. to the Lord of the said manours, and the homage of either manours shallbe charged from time to time to choose an other reeve, in place of him that so refuseth, until such time that one be chosen that shall and will serve the said office. And every copieholder that shallbe chosen to the said office as his turn shall come about and refuse, shall pay the fines aforesaid, for his refusal. And if any copieholder that shall execute the said office and doth refuse to satisfy and say to the Lord such rents, fines, and amerciaments, wherewith he shallbe lawfully charged, or shall refuse to account with the Lord within two months next yearly after Michaehnas, having had the extracts for that year, by the space of two months, every such Reeves Landes and tenements, that shall refuse to account and to pay the said rents, fines, amercements and issues as aforesaid, shallbe seized into the lords hands, and the lord shall and may take to his own use, the issues and profits of his said lands and tenements, until he shall pay unto the Lord the said rents, issues, fines and profits, and till he have also satisfied and paid the Lord for his said offence: Viz. being reeve of Hackney, vi. li. xiii. s. iiii. d and being reeve of Stebbunhuth. x. li.  
40 Item, That every customary Tenant whose customary lands or tenements holden of the said manours, or of either of them be worth to be sold so much money as one years rend of assize, with the profits and proquisits of the Courts of either of the said manours, within the which he shallbe chosen that year, that he shallbe chosen reeve of the said manours, or of either of them shall amount unto, by the estimation of the homage, shall bear the office of the reeve for one whole year, when his time and course doth come.  
41 Item, The reeve of Stebbunhuth is bound by custom yearly to find and make to the lords Steward and his counsel three dinners, that is to say, one upon the Leete day, and the other two upon the said two general Court days.  
42 Item, Every of the said Reeves is to be allowed of the said Lord for the exercising of the said office for one year, as followeth: Viz. The reeve of Stebbunhuth three pound, six shillings, eight pence, and the reeve of Hackney liii. s. iiii. d. and either of them a coat cloth and all other commodities due and incident to the said office.  
43 Item, By the custom of the said manours and of either of them Reeves of the said manours and of either of them, shall at the next general court after his year of service expired, deliver the rental, by which he made his account, to the reeve that shall next succeed him, upon pain to be amerced or fined by the homage, if he shall not so do.  
44 Item, By the custom of the said manours, and of either of them, all the customary tenants of the said manours, and of every of them, may break and dig their copiehold grounds holden of the said manours and of every of them, at their pleasure, and fell and cut down their timber and woods growing, or that shall grow upon the same, and convert it to their best use and profit, and may also suffer their copie-hold tenements and houses to decay, without incurring any seizure or forfeiture of their estates therefore, and may take and pull down their said Tenements, and erect or set them up again, either where they stood before, or upon any other lands holden by copy of court roll of the said manours, or of either of them.  
But they may not nor shall not take or pull them down to set them or any part of them upon their own free holds, or upon the free holds of aanie other, or sell or convert them or any part of them to their own use, otherwise then is before limited.  
45 Item, By the custom of the said manours, and of either of them, every of the Lords Tenants may lop and shred all such trees as grow before their houses or tenements, upon the waste ground, and the same convert to their own use, without any offence, so the said trees stand for the defence of their houses, yards, or gardens, and also may dig gravel, sand, and lome, upon the said waist ground, to build or repair any of their copiehold tenements within the said manours, or in either of them, without any licence.  
46 Item, if any person or persons being Tenant customary, shall without licence by Indenture or other writing, or otherwise, let his said customary lands or tenements for term of above three years from the making thereof, it is a forfeiture of his estate, by the custom of the said manours, & of either of them, being found by the homage, or else otherwise lawfully and sufficiently proved.  
47 Item, For treason or felony whatsoever, that shallbe committed by any copieholder of the said manours, or of any of them, for which he shallbe lawfully attainted, he shall forfeit his copieholde lands and tenements, and for all other offence or offences, act or acts whatsoever, for which a freeholder ought by law to forfeit his freehold lands and tenements, there a copieholder of the said manours or of either of them, shall forfeit as a freeholder ought to forfeit in the like case his free hold. And if a copieholder make a feoffament of his copie-hold, gift in tail, or lease for life or lives by deed or without deed, and livery and seisin thereupon, or shall suffer a recovery at the common law, levey a fine or wilfully refuse and deny to pay, do or perform his rents, fines, suits, customs, or services at any time hereafter due to the lord or lords of the said manours, or of either of them for their said copieholds, the same wilful refusal being presented to the homage, by the oaths of three customary Tenants, with the reeve or his deputy, (the said tenants nor reeve, nor his deputy being none of the Lords servants,) And being found by the homage, the same to be a forfeiture of his estate, whatsoever he shall have at the time of any such act committed or done, insomuch of his or their copiehold land and tenements, as he shall have made, committed, or done, any such act, and only for so much of his said Lands and tenements, out of the which the said quitrent and other duties is demanded, and shallbe due, and wilfully denied by the said Tenant or Tenants, as aforesaid. Or if any copieholder shall in the Lord's Court or else where, in any court of Record, disclaim to hold his said copieholde lands and tenements of the Lord, or by pleading in the Lord's court, or other court of record, claim their copieholdes to be free holds, or plead in any Real Action at the Common Law in chief, as a free hold Tenant, or shall do any other act or thing which shallbe a disseisin or disenheritance of the Lord or Lords of the said manours, or of either of them, their heirs or assigns, (other than such acts as in these articles are especially dispensed withal.)  
That then he shall forfayre the same lands and tenements so disclaiming to hold, or claiming to be free hold, or for which he shall plead in Chief, or do any such other act or thing as is aforesaid. Finally, the Lord of the said manours or of either of them, shall have all such other forfeitures, issues, profits and advantages of the said copiholdes that shall grow due to him by any Statute laws of this realm, being not against and contrary to these articles and customs here expressly set down.  
48 Item, If any person or persons having any estate of any copiehold lands or tenements holden of the said Manors or of either of them, for term of life or lives, or for term of years, or in the right of their wives of any estate, although he or they shall do any act or acts during the time aforesaid, in or upon the said copieholde lands or tenements which might or should be contrary to the custom of the said manours, or of either of them, the same Act or Acts so being done, shall not prejudice or be hurtful unto the next person or persons to whom the said customary lands or tenements should or ought to remain, revert, or come, nor to the said wife or her heirs, not being party, or consenting to the said act or forfeiture, nor that the Lord of the said Manors or of either of them, shall take any longer advantage, issues or profits of the same copiehold lands or tenements, then during the time of such estates as is aforesaid, of the party committing, doing, or consenting to such act or acts, so that after his or their decease or states determined, the said lands and tenements shall remain, revert, or come to the next person or persons, or to such person or persons to whom the same should have comen or remained, or reverted immediately after such estate or estates ended or determined, as though there had been no such act or acts done coutrarie to the said custom, by any such person or persons.  
49 Item, By the custom of the said manours and of either of them, the particular or private act or acts of any customary tenant or tenants of any of the said manours which shall happen to be done wilfully, by or between them, or any of them and the Lord of the said manours, and his reeve or of either of them, contrary to the custom of the said manours, neither doth nor shall extend to be construed to be a breach of the ancient customs of the said manours or of either of them, to the hurt or prejudice of the rest of the customary tenants, but of themselves only, doing the said particular act.  
50 Item, that if any tenant for term of life or lives only, or for term of years of customary lands, shall make any waist, that then he shallbe fined by the homage, the third part of which fine shallbe to the Lord, and the other two parts shall come to him in the reversion or remainder of the said copyhold.  
51 Item, The Lord for non payment of amerciaments, may distrain his said Tenants, and avow for the same as for rents, but he can not seize any of his or their lands or tenements for non payment thereof, until he be paid.  
52 Item, upon the admission of any coheirs, joint Tenants, or Tenants in common, if they cannot agree to occupy their Lands and Tenements together, or to make partition among themselves, than he or they that be grieved may by the custom of every of the said manours have a precept from the Steward directed to seven customary Tenants or more of the said manours, within which the said Lands and Tenements do lie, and they shall make partition thereof, and the same return to the Steward of the said manours again to be inroled in the Court Roles of the said manours, whereof the said Lands or Tenements be holden, whereupon the said heirs shall go to the Steward of the said manours within which the said Lands or Tenements, shall lie, and then elcte and choose their parts in form following. That is to say, the youngest son to choose first, than he that is next to the youngest to choose next, and so after that rate unto the eldest, how many so ever, which eldest shall choose last, and likewise the same order is to be observed amongst daughters, if there be no sons. And amongst all other degrees of heirs touching the customary Lands and Tenements holden of the said manours or either of them, and upon every such partition, they shall pay for a fine to the Lord, two. s. vi. d. or less, at the discretion of the Steward, according to the quantity of the Lands or Tenements so parted, between Tenants in common, & joint Tenants, for the like fine, the said division to be by the said Tenants without election of the parties themselves, but by casting of Lots, if they cannot otherwise agree.  
53 Item, if any customary or free tenants cattle, or the cattles of their farmers be brought to the lords pound, the said Tenant or his farmer shall pay for all his cattle if they be a hundred heads or upwards, or under, for the poundage thereof but one penny, & he that is no tenant shall pay for every distress of cattle so pounded four pence.  
54 Item, if any cattle be impounded with in the lords pound by any person or people being a customary tenant or tenants of the said manours or of either of them for any trespass committed or done within the said manours, or in either of them, upon their copyholds, that all such cattle being so impownded, may by two of the customary tenants of the said manours or of either of them wherein the said Trespass shallbe committed, which will answer for all such damags and costs as shallbe recovered in the said Court against the owners of the same cattle, for the said Trespass, be delivered out of the said pound unto the owner of the said cattle, by the custom of the same manours, & of either of them.  
55 Item, by the custom of the said manors & of either of them, no customary tenant shall sue, vex, or trouble any other customary Tenant, for any title of Lands or Tenements lying and being within the said manours or in either of them, being Copyhold Landes or tenements of the said manours or of either of them, out of the lords Court, without the special licence first had and obtained of the Lord of the said manours, or of either of them, or of his Steward for the time being, if any person do the contrary, he shall have his Lands or tenements seized into the lords hands, until he pay a fine to the Lord for the same offence, such fine as shallbe sessed by thomage at the next general Court of the said Manor or manours.  
56 Item, that no customary Tenant of the said manours or of either of them for any offence to be done by any man's cattle within the said manours, or in either of them, shall drive the same cattle to any foreign pounds, but to the lords pound, being within the said manours, or in either of them, if any man do the contrary, to be amerced at the next general court by the homage.  
57 Item, that no tenant or any other person shall set any stake, mark or mere, between tenant and tenant, or between Tenant and any other person that lieth next unto him, without the parties do thereunto agree, unless an order be appointed by the Homage, that it may be first viewed by twelve tenants of the said manours, or of either of them, where the stake or mere is to be set, and there to set the stake or mark, indifferently between both the said parties, and so to continue it upon pain of amerciament by the homage.  
58 Item, by the custom, the homage do yearly use at the general Court holden after Low Sunday, to elect and choose out of the hamlets within evirie of the said manours, certain customary Tenants to be drivers and viewers of the wastes and commons of the said manours or of either of them for one whole year, which have authority by the said Custom to drive the commons at any time when they find it surcharged, and to impound the cattle by them so taken, and no other so to drive the said common, than the persons so chosen as aforesaid.  
59 Item, if by their driving the Surcharging cannot be remedied, than they ought to inform the Homage thereof at the next Court, that they may amerce th'offenders, whether the said offenders be Tenants or no Tenants, and also to put a pain or an amerciament upon their heads, that they shall not likewise offend.  
60 Item, if the said drivers receive by the said poundages any more money than they spend in their travel, the rest shallbe employed to the Scouring of the common sewers, which be upon the said waist grounds & commons, & laying of bridges over the said common sewers, and shall make their account in that behalf to the homage at the general court, when the year for which they were chosen shall expire.  
61 Item, by the custom of the said Manors & of either of them, the coppieholde & customary tenants have used to make byelawes at their general courts when need have so required, which custom shall be continued & the said bylawes so by them made, shall bind all the Coppiehold Tetauns of the said manours or of either of them, so the same be not contrary to the true meaning of these Articles.  
62 Item, by the custom of the said manors & of either of them, tenants in tail of customary Lands and tenements may suffer common recoveries within the said several Manors, with single or double vouchers, or by agreement forfeit the said Lands and Tenements into the Lord's hand for the cutting of the estate tail, which custom by these Articles shall have still continuance, and that such recoveries & forfeitures are & shallbe good by the said custom to bar the said entail.  
Sealed and delivered in the presence of Edmond Poley, john Lany, Thomas Wakelin, Thomas Kent, William Onslow, john jermy.