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504 Court and Testamentary Business, 1649.
Liber B. ney I doe authorise you to receive in my behalfe upon the LO.R. No. 1 decease of My brother Jerome, One Cornewallies did Seize
upon his Estate, pretending that he was indebted unto him but I am informed it was only a deceitfull pretence to defraud me, If by your means any thing may be gotten, I will assist you for the present and hereafter come to the right here, My brother Henry hath promised to procure a Letter from my Lord Balte more in your behalf, which will be much to your advantage, As concerning the Statute I Send you only a Coppy thereof at present, But if it will be usefull unto you, you may have the Orriginal Sent you when you Shall require it, you must pretend your own right as next heir unto brother Jerome, as well as my Interest, for indeed there is only one daughter of his before you which Said daughter is in Brabant, and mindeth not the Same Soe with my hearty desire of your good prosperity and warfare at present Cease resting ever your very Loveing brother Ja: Hawley Brainford the 20th of July 1649.
To all Christian people to whome these presents Shall come James Hawley of New Branford in the County of Middlesex Esq Sendeth Greeting in our Lord God Everlasting, Whereas Jerome Hawley of London Esq by one Recognizance in the nature of a Statute Staple bearing date the first day of Aprill 1637, in the 13th year of the late King of England &c, and acknowledged before the Right Honble St John ffinch Knight Lord Chief Justice of his late Majesty's Court of Common pleas at Westminster became bound unto me the Said James p. 164 Hawley in the Sume of 1200 l of good and Lawfull money of England with defeazance thereupon bearIng date above written and made between me the Said James Hawley of the one part and the aforesaid Jerome Hawley on the Other part mentioning how that the Said Jerome Hawley his heirs Execu tors Administrators and assignes or any of them Should well and truely pay or cause to be paid unto me the Said James Hawley my Executors Administrators or assignes or any of them at or wthin the then dwelling house of me James Hawley Scituate in Minceing Lane London the Sume of 648 l of Law- full money of England upon the 7th day of Aprill Anno Dni 1638 Then the Same Recognizance or Statute Staple to be utterly voyd and of none effect, As in and by the Recognizance or Statute Staple and Indenture of Defeazance aforesd where unto relation being had more at large doth and may appear And Whereas there are divers other debts duties and accounts due and oweing unto me the Said James Hawley by Specialty and otherwise from divers and Sundry other persons, These
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