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CP 25/2/365/8JASITRIN, no.15 recto

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Creator: Court of Common Pleas
Title: WARWICKSHIRE: Feet of fines for 8 Jas I Trin
Date: 1610
Repository: The National Archives, Kew, UK
Call number and opening: CP 25/2/365/8JASITRIN, no.15
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Item Creator
Court of Common Pleas
Item Title
WARWICKSHIRE: Feet of fines for 8 Jas I Trin
Item Date
1610
Repository
The National Archives, Kew, UK
Call Number
CP 25/2/365/8JASITRIN, no.15

Institution Rights and Document Citation

 

Images reproduced by permission of The National Archives, London, England.

Terms of use
The National Archives give no warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or fitness for the purpose of the information provided.
Images may be used only for purposes of research, private study or education.  Applications for any other use should be made to The National Archives Image Library, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU, Tel: 020 8392 5225   Fax: 020 8392 5266.

Document-specific information
Creator: Court of Common Pleas
Title: WARWICKSHIRE: Feet of fines for 8 Jas I Trin
Date: 1610
Repository: The National Archives, Kew, UK
Call number and opening: CP 25/2/365/8JASITRIN, no.15
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Modernized/Translated transcriptions

[Translation based on B. Rowland Lewis, Shakespeare Documents (Stanford University, California: Stanford University Press, 1940), 2: 413.]

This is the final concord made in the court of the Lord King at Westminster in the eve of the feast of the Holy Trinity in the year of the reign of James by the grace of God King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland; of England, France, and Ireland the eighth, and Scotland the 43rd, before Edward Coke, Thomas Walmysley, Peter Warburton, and Thomas Foster, justices; and others, faithful to the king, there present;

Between William Shakespeare, gentleman, plaintiff, and William Combe, esquire, and John Combe, gentleman, defendants, concern ing one hundred and seven acres of land and twenty acres in pasture with their appurtenances in Old Stratford and Stratford-upon-Avon; to which place a summons to meeting in the said Court was agreed upon between them; to wit: that the aforementioned William Combe and John Combe recognize the aforesaid tenements with their appurtenances to be the right of William Shakespeare himself, and that the same mentioned William has them from the gift of the aforesaid William and John Combe and those things they remise and quitclaim from the said William and John Combe and their heirs to the aforementioned William Shakespeare and his heirs in perpetuity. And furthermore the same William Combe concedes on behalf of himself and his heirs that they warrant the said tenements with appurtenances to the said William Shakespeare and his heirs against the aforesaid William Combe and his heirs in perpetuity. And furthermore the said John [Combe] concedes on behalf of himself and his heirs that they warrant the said tenements with appurtenances to the said William Shakespeare and his heirs against the said John and his heirs in perpetuity. And for this recognition, remission, quitclaim, warrant, fine, and concord, the same William Shakespeare gave to the aforementioned William and John Combe one hundred pounds sterling.

Semi-diplomatic transcription

[This transcription is pending final vetting. Transcription based on B. Rowland Lewis, Shakespeare Documents (Stanford University, California: Stanford University Press, 1940), 2: 413.]

Hec est finalis concordia facta in curia Domini Regis apud Westmonasterium in Crastino Sancte Trinitatis
Anno regnorum Jacobi dei gracia Anglie Scocie ffrancie & Hibernie Regis fidei defenssoris &c Anglie
ffrancie & Hibernie Octauo & Scocie quadragesimo tercio coram Edwardo Coke Thoma
Walmysley Petro Warburton & Thoma ffoster Justicijs & alijs domini Regis fidelibus adtunc
ibidem presentibus Inter Willielmum Shakespere generosum querentem et Willielmum Combe armigerum & Johannem
Combe generosum deforciantes de centum et septem acris terre & viginti acris pasture cum pertinencijs
in Oldstratford & Stratford super Avon vnde placitum conuencionis summonitum fuit inter eos in
eadem curia Scilicet quod predicti Wil lielmus Combe & Johannes recognouerunt predicta tenementa cum pertinencijs esse
ius ipsius Willielmi Shakespere vt illa que idem Wil lielmus habet de dono predictorum Willielmi
Combe & Johannis Et illa remiserunt & quietclamaverunt de ipsis Willielo Combe & Johanne & heredibus
suis predicto Willielmo Shakespere & heredibus suis Imperpetuum Et preterea idem Willielmus Combe
concessit pro se & heredibus suis quod ipsi warantizabunt predicto Willielmo Shake spere & heredibus suis
predicta tenementa cum pertinencijs contra predictum Willielmum Combe & heredes suos Imperpetuum Et vlterius
idem Johannes concessit pro se & heredibus suis quod ipsi warantizabunt predicto Willielmo Shakespere & heredibus
suis predicta tenementa cum pertinencijs contra predictum Johannem & heredes suos Imperpetuum Et pro hac
recognicione remissione quietclama warantia fine & concordia idem Willielmus Shakespere
dedit predictis Willielmo Combe & Johanni Centum libras sterlingorum

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