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Title: Tithe agreement
Date: October 28, 1614
Repository: The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK
Call number and opening: ER27/3
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ER 27/3
[recto]
Vicesimo octavo die octobris Anno domini 1614
Articles of agreement indented made betweene william Shackespeare
of Stretford in the County of warwicke gentleman on the one partye & William
Replingham of greete harborowe in the Countie of Warwicke gentleman
on the other partie the daye & yeare abouesaid.
inter alia Item the said William Replingham for him his heires executors and assignes doth
Covenaunte & agree to & with the said William Shackespeare his heires & assignes
That he the said William Replingham his heires or assignes shall vppon
reasonable request satisfie Content & make recompence vnto him the said
William Shackespeare or his assignes for all such losse detriment & hinderan
hinderance as he the said William Shackespeare his heires & assignes and
one Thomas Greene gentleman shall or maye be thought in the viewe and
Judgement of foure indifferent persons to be indifferentlie elected by
the said William & William and their heires & in default of the said
William Replingham by the said William Shackespeare or his heires
onely to survey and Judge the same to sustayne or incurre for or
in respecte of the increasinge [sic] of the yearelie value of the Tythes
they the said William Shackespeare and Thomas doe Joyntlie or seuerallie
hold and enioy in the said fieldes or anie of them by reason of
anie Inclosure or decaye of Tyllage there ment and intended by the said
William Replingham And that the said William Replingham and his heires
shall procure such sufficient securitie vnto the said William Shackespeare
and his heires for the performance of theis Covenauntes as shalbee
devised by learned Counsell In witnes whereof the parties abousaid
to theis presentes Interchangeablie their handes and Seales
haue put the daye & yeare first aboue wrytten
Sealed & deliuered in the presence
of vs
Thomas Lucas Anthonie Nasshe
Iohn Rogers Michael Olney.
