Evidence For Specific Landholdings : The Indenture of 1609

This indenture made the eleventh day of August in the yeares of the raygne of our soveraygne lord James by the grace of God of England Scotland France & Ireland King Defender of the faith etc of his kingdoms of England France & / Ireland the sixt and of Scotland the two & fortith  BETWEEN Franncis Alder of Hobberlawe in the County of Northumberland gentleman of the one partie And Thomas Collingwood of Little Ryell in the said County gentleman / of thother partie WITNESSETH that the said Franncis Alder for and in consideracon of a competent some of lawfull English money to him in hand paid by the said Thomas Collingwood before thensealing and deliv[er]ie of these presents of which / said somme & of ev[er]y parte and parcell thereof he doth acquite and discharg the said Thomas Collingwood his heires executors and administrators by these presents, hath given granted barga[i]ned and sold & by these presents for him and his heires doth give grannt bargaine and sell unto / the said Thomas Collingwood his heires and assignes for ever ALL that halfe husbandland or halfe tenement knowne by the name of Halfe a Husband Lande scituate lying & being in the Towne fields & territories of Aleneham in the said County of Northumberland nowe or late / in the possession of him the said Thomas Collingwood or of his assignes with all houses edifices buildings garthes gardyns meadowes moors pastures and common of pastures someringe places in and upon the common of Alneham aforesaid with all other / hereditaments thereunto belonging or in  any wise appertaininge, And also all those parcells of lande grounde & closes lying near or boundering unto the aforesaid common of Alneham containinge  by estimat[i]on Forty acres, Thirty whereof doe adjoyne, and are neare / boundering on the east syde of Bromeley alias Bromelaw and the other ten acres thereof are scytuate and lyinge at a certaine place called Coppedeane by their right meates and boundes with Common of pasture for all manner of beastes, and Cattell in the common / of Alneham aforesaid And also all those landes and groundes called Todd Law or knowne by that name lyinge nere the said place or parcell of grounde called Coppeden aforesaid with all groundes profits, easements waies waieleaves liberties passaiges rights profitts comodityes  / and hereditaments to the said premises and to everie or any parte thereof belonginge or appertaininge, with the reversion and reversions remaynder and remaynders of the said premises and of everie parte thereof, Together also with all and singuler deedes / evidences charters exemplifications escripts muniments and writings onely concerninge the premises or onely concerninge any parte or parcell of the same, All which deedes writinges charters evidences, escripts and muniments together with true coppies of all and singuler / other deedes indentures escripts muniments and writinges concerninge the premises or any parte thereof together with other landes which the said Franncis Alder or any other personn or personnes to his use or by his delivery haith or have in his or their hands custody / or possession or which he the said Franncis his heires or assignes may lawfully come by without suite in law, The same coppies to be made & written att the onely costs & charges of the said Thomas Collingwood his heires and assigns The / said Franncis Alder for him his herires executors administrators and assignes covenenteth and grannteth to and with the said Thomas Collingwood his heires and assignes to deliver or cause to be delivered to him the said Thomas Collingwood / his heires or assigns on this syde the feast of St Michaell the archangell next ensewing the date thereof

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said Halfe Husband Land or halfe tenement, and all and singuler other the premises with their and / everie of their severall appurtenances before by these presents mencioned to be given granted bargained or sould to him the said Thomas Collingwood his heires and assignes to the onely proper use and behoofe of him the said Thomas Collingwood / his heires and assignes for ever.

AND THE SADE Francis Alder for him his heires executors administrators and assignes and for every of them dothe covenante promise and grannte to and with the said Thomas Collingwood his heires executors  / administrators and assignes and to and with everie of them by these presents That he the said Franncis Alder att thensealinge and delivery of these presents is, and att the tyme when the first estaite shallbe exequted by virtue hereof shallbe / the verie true and right owner of the premises by these presents given grannted bargayned or sould, or mencioned to be given grannted bargained or sould, and now is and then shallbe thereof, and of everie parte & parcell thereof lawfully seazed of a good lawfull / perfect and absolute estaite in fee simple or in fee taill generall or speciall with the remaynder of the fee thereof to him the said Franncis his heires and assignes, And that he hath good lawfull and rightfull power and authority to give grannte / bargaine and sell all and singuler the said premises with the appurtenances and everie parte & parcell thereof to the said Thomas Collingwood his heires and assignes and everie of them in manner and forme aforesaid, And also that he the said / Thomas Collingwood his heires and assignes & everie of them shall or may at all tymes hereafter for evermore lawfully quietly & peaceably have hould use occupye and enjoy all and singuler the said premises before mencioned to be grannted bargained  / or sould with all and singuler their appurtenances clearly exonerated acquitted and discharged or otherwise sufficiently saved and kept harmeless by him the said Franncis Alder his heires executors and administrators of and from all and all manner of / former bargaines sailes feoffments mortgaiges joyntures dowers leases estaites fynes amerciaments issues Statutes Marchant and of the staple intrusions  rents charge rents seck recognizances bondes penaltyes forfitures, judgements / executions wills intayles, and of and from all and everie other burdens charges and incumbrances whatsoever had made donne knowledged suffered or procured or to be had made donne knowledged suffered or procured by him the said Franncis Alder his heires or assignes / or any of them or by any other personne or personnes whatsoever by or under his or their consent tytle estaite act meanes or procurement in any wise (One lease of the premises heretofore made by the said Franncis and by George Alder his father deceased onely excepted )./

AND ALSO the said Francis Alder for him and his heires executors and assignes covenenteth promiseth and grannteth to & with the said Thomas Collingwood his heires and assignes that he the said Franncis Alder and all & everie other personne & personnes / whatsoever having or clayminge, or which att any tyme hereafter shall or may lawfully have or clayme any estaite right tytle interest or demande of in to or out of the said premises or any parte or parcell thereof before mencioned to be bargained or sould / by from or under him the said Franncis Alder his heires or assignes or any of them shall and will from tyme to tyme, and att all tymes hereafter duringe the space of ten yeares next ensewing the date of these presents upon reasonable request to him or / them or any of them to be had or made by the said Thomas Collingwood his heires or assignes or any of them, make do, knowledge, suffer & execute, or cause to be made done knowledged suffered & executed all and everie such reasonable act / and acts, thynge & thynges device & devices in the law whatsoever for the further and better assurance and sure makinge of the said bargained premises to be had made assured  & conveyed to him the said Thomas Collingwood his heires & assignes to his / and their use as aforesaid be it by fyne feoffment recovery deede or deedes indented and inrolled the acknowledgement and inrollment of these presents confirmacion or release with warranty against all men or without warranty or by all and any the waies / or meanes aforesaid Or by any other kynde of lawfull waie or meane assurances or conveyances whatsoever as by the said Thomas Collingwood his heires or assignes or any of them or by any of his or their Counsell learned in the Lawes of this realme / att the onely costs & charges in the Law of him the said Thomas Collingwood his heires or assignes or any of them shallbe reasonably devised or advised.

AND the said Francis Alder and his heires the said halfe husband lande landes tenements hereditaments / and premises aforesaid with their appurtenances to him the said Thomas Collingwood his heires & assignes against all men shall warrant & for ever defend by these presents

AND LASTLY to the end and intent that the said halfe husband lande landes tenements / hereditaments & premises aforesaid, and a good & perfect estaite of Fee simple therein may be settled and vested in him the said Thomas Collingwood his heires & assignes accordinge to the true meaninge hereof, The said Franncis Alder doth / hereby ordeyne & make his wellbeloved Henry Collingwood, and Cuthbert Collingwood gent his true & lawfull Attorneys jointly & severally, & unto them & either of them jointly and severally he dothe hereby give & grannte full power  / and authority as well for him and in his name to enter into the said halfe husband lande & premises aforesaid, and into everie or any parte thereof in the name of the whole, And therein & thereof in the name of the whole to deliver full and / peaceable possession Livery & Seizin to the said Thomas Collingwood or his certaine Attorney in the name of the whole, as also for him & in his name in any of his Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster or before any Judge Justice or / person havinge power in such caises or before any Justice of the peace & Clerk of the peace in the said County of Northumberland to acknowledge these presents to be the act & deed of him the said Franncis Alder whereby the same / may be enrolled & entered of Record, according to the forme of the statute in such caises made & provyded

IN WITNESS whereof the said parties to these indentures interchangeably have sett their handes and seales the daie & / yeare first above written        

(Signed and sealed) Francis Alder

[On the reverse]

Sealed and delivered in the presence of

Jo. Browne

Luke Collingwood his mark

William Wall [or Wallis ?]

John Lowther

Memorandum that peaceable possession livery & seizing of the within /

named tenement & premises in this indenture mentioned was taken /

& delivered by the within named Attorneys Henry Collingwood /

& Cuthbert Collingwood, to the within named Thomas Collingwood /

according to the purport of the within written Indenture the /

xxii st of August day of August [sic] in the yeares within written in /

the presence of     ……………..  (?)

Luk[e] Collingwood                                            Steven[?] Bryse

Thomas U[n]thank

Henry Watso[n? or Watho ?]

Robertu[s] Chartteris [?]

Robertus Hors[?]en

Androw Robsone

Robertum Atchesone

Robert Bryse