AN ABSTRACT Of the Title to the Lands in Wapping-Marsh, And other Places near Adjoining, belonging to the MANOR Of Stepney or Stebunheath, Called Ewell alias Tilehouse.  
THE Inheritance of the Manor of Stepney, called Ewell alias Tilehouse, reaching from St. Catherines to Ratcliff-Town, belonged to the Abbot of Graces, St. Thomas of Acons, and Thomas Windham; All which Interests, Stepkin (the Lady Ivie's Ancestor) purchased above one hundred years since.  
Part of those Lands were afterwards Sold by Stepkin, part by Grants let out upon long Leases, reserving Pepper-cornes, or some such inconsiderable Rents; and part in Possession, together with the Reversions of those Leases descended to the Lady Ivy.  
The Leases lately generally expired; the Lady Ivy thereupon claimed, and endeavoured to recover, the Reversions, as her proper Right; but met with these difficulties.  
The difficulties of discovering the Ancient Boundaries, occasioned by the Buildings, the alteration of Names, the changing Watercourses, the adjoining to and mixture with some Ancient Purchasers, under the same Title; and Ancient Lease-holders', under some other Titles: And the Oppositions of divers men of potent Interest and Influence: All which notwithstanding she overcame, and made out her Title by manifest Records, at several Trials.  
There have been some Aspersions lately cast upon the Lady Ivie's Title, and by Consequence upon the Title of the Purchasers, and certain Mortgagees: All which Titles spring from one and the same Root, and have one and the same Original: None of which Aspersions (tho' most notoriously false, as will in due time appear) affect the Records, by which the Title hath been or may be hereafter fully made out. The Lady Ivy therereupon, in honour to her Ancestors and Family, in Justice and Respect to the several Purchasers and Mortgagees, and the particular satisfaction of her own Conscience, hath thought good to print the several Records, by which their respective Titles are made out.  
ABout one hundred and thirty Acres of this Manor were drowned about the 25th. year of King Henry the 8 th'. reaching from St. Catherines on the West, to Ratcliff-Town on the East: It was drained by one Vanderdelff; who, by agreement of the Proprietors, was to have one Moiety for his pains; which he sold to Richard Hill.  

27 Hen. 8.  Thereupon an Act of Parliament was made, which Enacted, That the said Richard Hill and his Heirs, should have Vanderdelf's Moiety; In which Act, the drowned Lands are thus bounded (viz.) On the highway leading from London to Ratcliff on the North part; On the River of Thames on the South part; On the Town of Ratcliff on the East part: And upon St. Catherines, on the West part.  

30 Hen. 8.  By a Lease from Henry Moor, Abbot of the Monastery of Graces, to Thomas Stepkin, dated September 17 th'. it appears, That the said Abbot granted that Lease to the said Thomas Stepkin for Ninty-nine Years of a Wharfe called Lewin's Wharfe; and a Wharfe called Hermitage Wharfe; and several other Lands therein particularly named; All lying in the Manor of Stepney, called Ewell.  

36 Hen. 8.  By Letters-Patents bearing date 21 st. of July, the King grants the Inheritance of the said Wharfes, etc. in the possession of the said Stepkin (inter alia) to Sir Thomas Pope and Nicholas Bacon, and the Heirs of Nicholas Bacon.  

5 Edw. 6.  By Deed Enrolled in Chancery bearing date 17 th'. of November, the said Nicholas Bacon conveyed the said Wharfes to Hugh Loss.  

Feb. 16.6 Ed. 6.  Thomas Pope released to the said Hugh Loss.  

1 Q. Mary.  By Indenture bearing date the 5 th'. December, Hugh Loss, and Agnes Loss his wife, covenant with Machelin Stepkin, Anthony Anthony, and Humphrey Smith, to Levy a Fine of the said Wharfes, etc. in Easter Term next ensuing, to the said Anthony Anthony and Humphrey Smith, for the use of the said Machelin Stepkin and John Stepkin her Son, and the Heirs of the said John Stepkin for ever.  

In East ' Term Ann. Supradict '  A Fine was Levied accordingly.  

30 Hen. 8.  By an Instrument bearing date the 20 th'. of October, which is to be found in the Augmentation Office, it appears, That the Master and Brethren of the house of St. Thomas of Acons' being seized in Fee of a 
* Note, this House & Lands are the same hereafter mentioned in the Extent 4 Eliz.  House, and certain other Lands in Wapping, upon dissolution of the said House, surrendered the same into the King's hands.  

36 Heb. 8.  And then the said King, by his Letters Patents bearing date the 22. of August, grants the said House and Lands in Consideration of Eleven hundred Pounds to John Champneys, John Allen, and Ralph Allen, and their Heirs.  
John Champners, the Surviving Patentee, 
1 Edw. 6.  by Bargain and Sail enroled and Feoffment with Livery and Seizing, both bearing date the 4 th'. of July, Conveyed the said House and Lands to Thomas Allen the Younger, Son of Ralph Allen, and his Heirs.  
Then Thomas Allen, 
3 Edw. 6.  by Bargain and Sail bearing date the 16 th'. of July, conveyed the said House and Lands to Richard Hill and his Heirs; and on the 6 th'. of September following, made a Feoffment with Livery and Seizing of the Premises to the said Richard Hill.  
'Tis to be noted, 
32 Hen. 8.  That the said Richard Hill did then enter into a Statute of Three Hundred Pound to Anthony Vivald, and Henry Salvago.  
And the drowned Lands being not divided according to the direction of the aforesaid Statute made in the 27th. Hen. 8. It was Enacted, 
35 Hen. 8. Chap. 9th.  That a Division should be made by All-Saints day next ensuing; and a Division was accordingly made.  
In Hillary Term, Thomas Windham, and his Wife, suffered a Recovery to Thomas Stepkin and Machelin his Wife of the Manor of Ewell, 
35 Hen. 8.  alias Tilehouse, and Two Hundred Acres of Land, One Hundred Acres of Meadow, One Hundred Acres of Pasture, Three Acres of Wood, and Ten Shillings Rend, in the Parish of St. Marry Matfellon without Aldgate, and Stebunheath alias Stepney; Seventy Six Acres of which being Drowned Lands, upon the Division Thirty Eight Acres fell to Richard Hills share.  
In Trinity Term Jasper Hill, Son and Heir of Richard Hill, by Fine, 
3. Eliz.  to make a Tenant to the Praecipe for a Common Recovery, and by a Common Recovery thereupon suffered, (in which one 
* This Bazil johnson is the same person hereafter named in the Release 7 Jacobi.  Bazill johnson was demandant) and by Deed bearing date the 12 of May, 4. Eliz. to lead the uses of the said Common Recovery, conveyed to the said Machelin Stepkin and John Stepkin, and the Heirs of the said John for ever, among other things Twenty Acres of Land, and One Hundred Acres of Fresh Marsh, etc. Lying in the Parish-Towns and Fields of White-chappel, Stebunheath and Wapping.  
On the 17 of January, 
4. Eliz.  Benedict Spinola Administrator to the aforesaid Anthony Vivald, who survived the said Henry Salvago, Conizees of the aforesaid Statute acknowledged to them by the said Richard Hill 3 Decemb. 32 Hen. 8. Extended (inter alia) One Hundred and Thirteen Acres of Land Arable, Meadow and Pasture, Besides a House called Wapping-House, with Orchards, Gardens and Mill-house, and a Wharf in the Tenure of Robert Cheney lying in Wapping aforesaid; which Extent Stepkin purchased in.  
John Stepkin 14. of June, 1573, as surety for William Patent, 
15. Eliz.  covenanted to pay to the Queen Seven Thousand Nine Hundred Twenty Eight Pounds Seven Shillings and Eleven Pence half penny out of his own Estate in Stepney, and particularly therein are expressed most of the said Lands mentioned in the said Extent, 4. Eliz. and particularly all the Lands now in Dispute. And he gave Bond to perform Covenants; which Bond being forfeited, was extended the 31 of January, 19 Eliz.  

19 Eliz.  And afterwards, the Queen, the six of May, demised the same to Alice Stepkin, so long as it should remain in the Queen's Hands, at One Hundred Thirty Nine Pounds Eight Shillings per Annum. The Rents reserved to the Queen, were paid near Thirty Years together.  

7. Jac. 1.  King James the First, the 7th of July, 1609, released to John Stepkin and his Heirs for ever, all the Lands extended; And in this Patent Bazill johnson the demandant in the said Recovery 3d of Eliz. is named, and under this John Stepkin the Lady Ivy Claims as Heir to John Stepkin her Father, Son of the aforesaid John Stepkin.  

10 Car. 1.  Arthur Hill Aged 84 Years, and Christopher Green Aged 80 Years, deposed the 10 th'. of October 1634. That the Breach of Water was in a great Dock called Stepkins Dock, and the Ancestors of Stepkins, owners of the Marsh, did maintain the same.  
One Richard Glover being in possession of certain Lands, by virtue of a long Lease from Stepkins, the Lady Ivies Ancestor, sold the same to Sir Anthony Bateman as Copyhold, in 1647. tho' the Father of this Richard, the 16 th'. of May the Year before, sold the same as Freehold to one Warren. Both these Deeds are enroled.  

The Lady Ivy hath had Verdicts for her Title in Four Trials at Barr.  

Morris versus Johnson Hillary 1673.  First. In the Exchequer before Lord Chief Baron Turner.  

Lynch versus Ireton. Mich. Term. 1675.  Second. In the King's Bench before L. Chief Justice Hales.  

Bayly versus Hammond. Mich. Term, 1676.  Third. In the King's Bench before L. Chief Justice Rainsford.  

Martin versus Whichcott. Mich. Tr. 1679.  Fourth. In the Exchequer before L. Chief Baron Montague.   

The King against Johnson and Ireton, Hillary, 1677.  During the whole time of the Trials aforesaid, there was a Conspiracy to procure Witnesses to swear the Lady Ivie's Deeds, and some other of her Evidences, Forged: Thomas Duffet, than Husband to the now Witness against the Lady Ivy, confessed the Conspiracy; upon which the Court of King's Bench ordered an Information to be exhibited against the Attorney of her Adversaries, and one Ireton, for subornation of Perjury: The Attorney was convicted before the Lord Chief Justice Rainsford: The proof against him was, That he entered into Articles to give five hundred Pounds to any Person that should swear some particular Deeds and Evidences of the Lady Ivies forged, and to procure the King's pardon for the Person that should Swear it. The Trunk, together with the Articles, and three hundred and fifty Pounds, part of the said five hundred Pound, was found in a Gentleman's Chamber in the Temple, and by a Tipstaff sent by the Lord Chief Justice, brought into Court.  
 
The Lady Ivy is desirous to give this farther satisfaction to all Persons, who are any ways concerned with Her, that if it shall please God she should not live to end her Troubles, (which she hopes will not be in her Adversaries Power to delay much longer) she has left her Estate in that Posture, that every one will be paid what is their Due.