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390) three years he y.e s.d Deft Covenanting to pay 10000.ℓ of tob such Manner as in y.e s.d Articles is mentioned & covenanted That he would well & sufficiently amend y.e breach in y.e Dam & set a going both y.e Mills with all necessary Reparations Wormanlike & at y.e end of y.e s.d three years to deliver y.e possession to y.e plts as by y.e s.d Articles of Agreement may more at large appear The s.d Complts imediatly put y.e s.d Deft in possession thereof who promised forthwith to go about y.e repairing thereof But y.e same being by y.e s.d Deft neglected y.t year y.e breach of y.e dam grow for Much wider & y.e Floods had like to have carried all away through his Neglect & by y.e Means y.e Charge of Repairs was become greater & thereupon y.e s.d Deft in Aprill 1685 & at severall other times became an earnest & importunate solliciter to y.e plts to have his term inlarged for five years longer than his s.d former term or else he must be forced to throw them up & leave them & y.e s.d Compl.ts to y.e Judgm.t of y.e Law Whereupon & his unwearied soliciations pretended y.e Complt Hill was willing to do y.e same if y.e other Complt Carvile would consent to do y.e same as y.e Deft then said and procured from y.e s.d Carvile a Letter directed to y.e s.d Hill dated y.e 8.th day of June 1685 Wherein y.e s.d Carvil writ as follows M.r Clement Hill I have through y.e Importunity of Lynes & Consideration of his great Charges (if protestations may have Credit & y.e Certificat of y.e Gentl.n of Charles County & prospect of y.e future advantage of y.e persons for whom you & I are intrusted) concluded with myself (without any Imposition upon yo.r discretion to incline yo.r Consent farther than you may in conscience be inclined) to grant M.r Lynes an addition of five years more to be added to y.e other lease of y.e Mills upon these Conditions (1) That he pay y.e 10000.ℓ tob allready agreed upon at y.e daies agreed on (2.ly) That there be now articles of agreement drawn with Covenants advisedly penned for all y.e new work to be done & as near as may be punctually expressed as to Flood gates dams peer head Conduits wheels &c (3.ly) That he get y.e Gentl of S.t Maries Counties hands to y.e Certificate signed by y.e Charles County Gentl (4.ly) That he & his attorney assist with their advice in procuring some order of y.e provinciall Court or his Lpps Councill upon y.t Certificate for our Indemnity as far as may be obtained & at his Charge (5.ly) That after y.e Mills go you & I may have y.e Refusall & first purchase at y.e Market price of twenty barrells of Corn & ten bushells of wheat a piece (6.ly) To leave them in tenantable Repair substantiall & good with all utensills belonging at y.e end of y.e term without any Let suit or Eviction This if you approve of I shall joyne in a Lease not else & y.t M.r Lynes give us a pticular of y.e Charges by him expended And y.e s.d Carvil having so writt y.e same y.e s.d Lynes desired to have y.e same read to him wch accordingly y.e s.d Carvil did & sealed y.e same up directed to y.e s.d M.r Hill & deliver'd y.e same to y.e |
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