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Creator: Court of Common Pleas
Title: Concords of Fines Files, James I
Date: ca. Easter 1610 - Hilary 1611
Repository: The National Archives, Kew, UK
Call number and opening: CP 24/2/7
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[This transcription is pending final vetting. Transcription incorporates a fragment of the text as published in B. Rowland Lewis, Shakespeare Documents (Stanford University, California: Stanford University Press, 1940), 2: 412.]
Jacobus dei gracia Anglie Scocie ffrancie & Hibernie Rex fidei defensor &c Dilectis & fidelibus suis Ricardo Verney militi Johanni fferrers militi Thome Beaufoe militi & Clementi Throckmorton
militi ac dilecto sibi ffrancisco Collins Generoso salutum: Cum breue nostrum de conuencione pendeat coram Justicijs nostris de Banco inter Willielmum Shakespere Generosum et
Willielmum Combe Armigerum & Johannem Combe Generosum de Centum & septem acris terre & viginti acris pasture cum pertinencijs in Oldstratford & Stratford super Avon
in Comito Warr’ ad finem inde inter eos coram Justicijs nostris predictis in Banco predicto secundum legem & consuetudinem regni nostri Anglie leuandum. Ac ijdem Willielmus Combe &
Johannes Combe adeo impotentes sui existant quod absque maximo corporum suorum periculo vsque Westmonasterium ad diem in dicto brevi nostro contentum ad cogniciones que in hac parte
requiruntur faciend’ laborare non sufficiunt vt accepimus Nos statum eorundem Willielmi Combe & Johannis Combe compacientes in hac parte dedimus vobis quatuor
tribus vel duobus vestrum potestatem recipiendi cogniciones qu<o>s ijdem Willielmus Combe & Johannes Combe coram vobis quatuor tribus vel duobus vestrum facere voluerint de
premissis. Et ideo vobis quatuor tribus vel duobus vestrum mandamus quod ad prefatos Willielmum Combe & Johannem Combe personaliter accedentes cogniciones suas predictas
recipiatis et cum eas receperitis prefatos Justicios nostros inde sub sigillis vestris quatuor trium vel duorum vestrum distincte & aperte reddatis certiores Vt tunc finis
ille inter partes predictas de premissis coram Justicijs nostris predictis in Banco predicto leuari possit secundum legem & consuetudinem supradictas mittentes eisdem Iusticijs hoc
breve Per me ipso apud Westmonasterium xiij die Aprilis Anno regni nostri Anglie ffrancie & Hibernie octauo & Scocie quadragesimo tercio.
Moore
Warr’
SS Precipe Willielmo Combe armigero & Johanni Combe generoso quod iuste
&c tenementa Willielmo Shakespere generoso concordiam &c de centum et septem acris terre &
viginti acris pasture cum pertinentijs in Old Stratford et Stratford super Avon Et nisi &c.
Et est concordia talis Scilicet quod predicti Willielmus Combe & Johannes recognoverunt predicta tenementa cum pertinencijs esse ius ipsius Willielmi Shakespeare vt illa que idem Willielmus
Shakespere habet de dono predictorum Willielmi Combe & Johannis Et illa remiserunt et quietclamauerunt de ipsis Willielmo Combe & Iohanne & heredibus suis predicto Willielmo
Shakespere & heredibus suis imperpetuumEt preterea idem Willielmus ^Combe concessit pro se & heredibus suis quod ipsi warantizabunt predicto Willielmo Shakespere & heredibus
suis predicta tenementa cum pertinencijs contra predictum Willielmum Combe & heredos 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 & heredos suos imperpetuum Et pro hac &c
Capta & cognita xxviijo die Maij Anno Regni domini nostri
Jacobi Regis nunc Angl[i]e &c octavo & Scocie
xliij coram
(signed) Tho: Beaufou
(signed) Io: Combe
(signed) William Combe
(signed) Fra: Collyns
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