The Combes sell Shakespeare arable land in old Stratford: fine entered into the Court of Common Pleas, Feet of Fines, to confirm Shakespeare's title.

[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.