Tripartite indenture between Sir Thomas Bendish bart. of Steeple Bumpstead, Essex,...

Tripartite indenture between Sir Thomas Bendish bart. of Steeple Bumpstead, Essex, and Robert Cooke gent. of Hempstead, Essex, on one part, Thomas Cotton esq., of Ashill, Norfolk, on the second part, and Richard Pepys esq., of the Middle Temple, London, and John Banges, yeoman of Hempstead, Essex, on the third part. Stating that whereas a recovery has been executed before the justices of the Court of Common Pleas in Westminster, Richard Pepys and John Banges having brought a precipe against Thomas Bendish and Robert Cooke for recovery of those messuages, lands, tenements and hereditaments in Hempstead, being part of the manor of Hempstead Hall, amounting to 91 acres and 31 poles and commonly called Aunts Leyes, Broadends, Latheley Valey, James, Darkings and Hurlockes, all lately held by Thomas Cotton and now, by lawful conveyance, in the possession of Thomas Bendish and Robert Cooke, after the recovery, to which precipe Bendish and Cooks appeared and vouched to warrant to Cotton, now the recoverers should stand seised of 71 acres an 31 poles, a parcel of the premises, by the names of Aunts Leyes, Broadends and Latheley Valey, now or late in the occupation of Robert Allen of Steeple Bumpstead, to the use of Thomas Bendish and his heirs and assigns, and those twenty acres called James, Darkins and Hurlockes to the use of John Banges.

Witnesses: Henry Cutte, Richard Yeldham and Richard Harvey.

Endorsed: for Jo. Bangs Holographic signatures and seals of Thomas Cotton, Thomas Bendish and Robert Cooke.

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