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Document-specific information
Title: New Place fine
Date: May 4, 1597
Repository: The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK
Call number and opening: ER27/4a
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For further details about the 1597 exemplification, see the general essay for Shakespeare's purchase of New Place.
Elizabeth dei gratia Anglie ffrancie & hibernie Regina fidei Defensoris &c Omnibus ad quos presentes
littere nostre peruenerint Salutem Sciatis quod inter recorda ac pedes finium cum proclamationibus inde factis Secundum formam Statuti
in huiusmodi Casu nuper editi & prouisi coram Iusticiariis nostris de Banco apud Westmonasterium De termino Pasche Anno regni nostri
Tricesimo nono Continetur sic Warr’ Hec est finalis Concordia facta in Curia Domine Regine apud
Westmonasterium a die Pasche in quinque Septimanas Anno regnorum Elizabeth dei gratia Anglie ffrancie & hibernie Regine
fidei Defensoris &c a conquestu tricesimo nono coram Edmundo Anderson Thoma Walmysley ffrancisco Beaumont &
Thoma Owen Iusticiariis & aliis Domine Regine fidelibus tunc ibi presentibus Inter Willelmum Shakespeare querentem et Willelmum Vnderhill
Generosum deforcientem de vno mesuagio duobus horreis & duobus gardinis cum pertinentiis in Stratford super Avon Vnde Placitum
conuencionis summonitum fuit inter eos in eadem Curia Scilicet quod predictus Willelmus Vnderhill recognovit predicta tenementa cum pertinentiis esse Ius ipsius
Willelmi Shakespeare vt illa que idem Willelmus habet de dono predicti Willelmi Vnderhill Et illa remisit & quietumclamavit
de se & heredibus suis predicto Willelmo Shakespeare & heredibus suis Imperpetuum Et preterea idem Willelmus Vnderhill concessit pro se &
heredibus suis quod ipsi Warantizabunt predicto Willelmo Shakespeare & heredibus suis predicta tenementa cum pertinentiis Imperpetuum Et pro hac recognitione
remissione quietaclamantia Warantia fine & Concordia idem Willelmus Shakespeare dedit predicto Willelmo Vnderhill Sexaginta
libras Sterlingorum In Cuius rei Testimonium Sigillum nostrum ad Brevia in Banco predicto Sigillandum deputatum presentibus
apponi fecimus Teste Edmundo Anderson apud Westmonasterium iiijo die Maii Anno regni nostri supradicto
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