Common Contracts

SUMMARY: The document below is the fine of 29 May and 15 June 1584 by which clear title to the manor of Hayes passed from Oxford to Thomas Willows and John Pratt for 400 marks.

Final Agreement • April 19th, 2007

• Contract Type
  Final Agreement
• Filed
  April 19th, 2007

This is the final agreement made in the court of the Lady Queen at Westminster on the morrow of the Ascension of the Lord in the year of the reigns of Elizabeth, by the grace of God Queen of England, France, & Ireland, Defender of the Faith, etc. from the Conquest the twenty-sixth [=29 May 1584], before Edmund Anderson, Thomas Meade, Francis Wyndham & William Periam, justices, & after on the morrow of Holy Trinity in the abovesaid year of the reigns of the same Queen Elizabeth [=15 June 1584] there granted and recorded before the same justices & others faithful to the Lady Queen then there present, between Thomas Willows & John Pratt, querents, and Edward, Earl of Oxford, deforciant, of the manor of Hayes in Stow Maries alias Hayes in Stow Marsh with the appurtenances and of three messuages, one barn, one water-mill, one dovecot, one garden, one orchard, a hundred acres of arable land, forty acres of meadow, a hundred & twenty acres of pasture, six acres of wood, forty acres of fresh m