The Gunpowder Plot and Lord Mounteagle's Letter, Being a Proof, with Moral Certitude, of the Authorship of the Document: Together with Some Account of the Whole Thirteen Gunpowder Conspirators, Including Guy FawkesSpink, Henry
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The Gunpowder Plot and Lord Mounteagle's Letter, Being a Proof, with Moral Certitude, of the Authorship of the Document: Together with Some Account of the Whole Thirteen Gunpowder Conspirators, Including Guy Fawkes
Spink, Henry
Gunpowder Plot, 1605; Monteagle, William Parker, Baron, 1574 or 1575-1622
witnes whereof, the partyes abovesaid to theis present
Indentures have interchangeablie set to their handes and seales
the daye and yere above written.
GUYE FAWKES. L.S.
Sealed and delivered, in the presence of us——DIONIS
BAYNEBRIGGE——JOHN JACKSON——CHRISTOPHER HODGSON’S marke ×
This Indenture maide the firste daie of Auguste in the xxxiiijth yere of
the reigne of our Soveraigne Ladie Elizabethe, by the grace of God Quewne
of England Fraunce and Ireland, Defendour of the Faithe, &c. Betwene Guye
Fawkes of the cittie of Yorke gentilman, of the one partye, and Anne
Skipseye of Cliftone in the countie of Yorke, spinster, of the other
partye Witnessithe that the said Guy Fawkes, for and in consideration of
the sum of xxix^{li} xiij^{s} iiij^{d} of good and lawfull English moneye
to him, the said Guye Fawkes, well and trewlie contentid and paid by the
said Anne Skipseye, at and before the ensealinge of these presentes,
whereof and wherewith the said Guye knowlegith him self to be fulie
satisfied contentid and paid, and the said Anne Skipseye, hir heires
executors administratores and assigneis, thereof to be fullie acquited and
dischargdgid for ever by theis presentes, hath geven grauntid alliened
bargained and sollde, and by these presentes dothe clerelie and absolutlye
geve graunt allien bargaine and sell unto the said Anne Skipseye, hir
heires and assigneis, that his messuage tenement or farme-hollde, with the
appurtenaunces, and a garthe and a gardine belonginge to the same, lyeinge
and beinge in Cliftone in the countie of York, and towe acres and an half
of arrable lande liinge in severall feilldes in Clifton aforesaid, half an
acre of medowe grounde liinge in a closse callid Huntingtone buttes,
within the townshipp and territories of Cliftone aforesaid, one acre of
medowe lyinge in Lufton Car, thre inges endes, and towe croftes or lees of
medowe in a crofte adjoyninge on the garth endes in Cliftone aforesaid, of
the easte parte of the said messuage; all which premissis are nowe in the
tenure and occupation of the said Anne Skipsie; and also one acre of
arable land and medowe liinge in the towne-end felld of Clifton aforesaid,
nowe or late in the occupation of Richard Dickinsone; and all other his
landes and tenementes in Clifton aforesaid, with all comons of pasture,
more grownde, turffe graftes, and all and singuler the appurtenaunces to
the same belonging or apperteyninge, in whose tenures or occupations
soever they nowe be, excepte thre acres and an half of arable land with
the appurtenaunces in Cliftone aforesaid, whereof half an acre callid a
pitt land, and a roode of land liinge at Newe Close Gate, and being in the
comon felld of Clifton aforesaid towardes Roclif, one half acre lyenge in
the felld callid Milne felld, one rood lying in the flatt callid the
Laires, and half acre callid Laires in Fosse filde, one acre callid a
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