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This indenture made the seventh day of February in the ninth year of the reign of our sovereign lady Anne by the grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland, Queen defender of the faith and in the year of our Lord Christ One thousand seven hundred and four between Samuell Roll of (?) in the County of Devon Esq and William Flamank of Hendra in the County of Cornwall Esq the surviving trustee appointed in and by the last will and testament of Daniell Eliot late of Port Eliot in the County of Cornwall aforesaid Esq deceased of the one part and Thomas Hambly of the parish of Bodmin in the said County of Cornwall Yeoman of the other so whereas the said Daniell Eliot in and by his last will and testament in writing bearing date the second day of July in the sixth year of the reign of our Lord sovereigns Lord and Lady King William and Queen Mary did devise unto John Sporrott? Of Penhale in the said County of Cornwall Esq now deceased and unto the said Samuell Roll and unto John Rashleigh of Cornshall in the County of Norfolk Esq now likewise deceased and unto the said William Flamank and unto Jonathon Sparkes of the Borough of Plymouth in the said County of Devon Esq now likewise deceased all and singular the manors messuages lands tenements rents and hereditaments whatsoever and wheresoever whereof and wherein had should have any estate in fee simple at the time of his death or dye? Seized in fee simple with the appurtenances for the terms of one and twenty years to commence immediately from and after his decease upon the trust therein mentioned with (?) remainders over and for the better enabling them to discharge the said trust did thereby give them the survivors and survivor of them full and absolute power right and authority to make and grant any pieces or estate of the (??) or given to them in trust for one and twenty years as aforesaid other than these capital messuages (?) and tenements with at the time of making the said will more kept at (?) and not leased out (?)to any person or persons from time to time for the best rate and value that might be made thereof for and two or three lives or for any number of years in possession reversion or expectancy determinable upon the death or deaths of and two or three persons so at all the estates in going together which named before or hereafter to be granted on any one tenement or thing so to be leased and not exceed three lives or ninety nine years determinable on the death of three persons at the (?) and so as the (?) and (?) accustomed rent and survivors been (?) to continue due and payable or a proportionable part thereof pro rata or more during the continuances of such leases respectively to such person or persons to whom the reversions or remainders of the said premises are paid or belong as in and by the said last will and testament of the said Daniell Eliot (?) going thereunto has it doth and may (among other things) more fully appear AND WHEREAS all the said trustees accepted the said trust that the said John Sporrott John Rashleigh and Jonathon Sparkes and (??) now this indenture witnesseth that the said Samuell Rolls and William Flamank in pursuance and for performance of the trust in them in and by the said will (?) and by virtue of his power to them thereby given and for consideration of the sum of three and twenty pounds and two guineas of gold of lawfull money of Great Britain to them the said Samuel Rolls and William Flamank in hand paid by the said Thomas Hambly at and before the sealing and delivery of these presents the receipt whereof they do hereby acknowledge and (?) and of every part and parcel thereof (?) do acquit exonerate release and discharge him the said Thomas Hambly his heirs executors and assigns (?) of them by these presents have granted leased sell let and demised and in and by these presents do sell let and demise unto the said Thomas Hambly his executors administrators and assigns all that tenement with the appurtenances called or commonly known by the name of Lancarfe and Lancarfe Holton together with all commons common of pasture ways waterings and commodoties to the same belonging or appertaining all which said premises are situate lying and being within the said parish of Bodmin and now in the tenure of him the said Thomas Hambly TO HAVE AND TO HOLD all and singular the said premises in Lancarfe and Lancarfe Holton aforesaid unto the said Thomas Hambly his executors and assigns for and during the (?) fine and unto the full end of the term and time of four score and nineteen years fully to be complete and ended if and so that Thomasin Hambly the now wife of the said Thomas Hambly shall so long live the said term to (?) begin immediately from and after the deaths of him the said Thomas Hambly and Robert Hambly his brother or other determination of a certain lease now in being on the said premises for the like term of four score and nineteen years now determinable on the deaths of the said Thomas Hambly and Robert Hambly residing and paying therefore yearly after the commencement of the said term and during the continuance of the same unto the said Samuell Rolls and William Flamank the survivor of them his heirs and assigns and to such person and persons to whom the reversion and inheritance of the said premises shall defend and belong ten shillings of lawfull money of Great Britain all the lower (?) equal feasts or terms of the years (that is to say) the feast of the birth of our Lord God the Annunciation of our blessed Lady the virgin St John the Baptist and St Michael The Archangel by equal portions the first payment to be made and begin on such feast of the feasts aforesaid as shall first happen after the commencement of the said term and also yielding and paying after the consideration of the said term Twenty shillings of lawfull money of Great Britain for and in the name of and glory of or (?) after the death of her the said Thomasin Hambly repairing also and maintaining well and sufficiently all and singular the said premises as well in (?) hedges (?) gates and fences as in all other (?) and necessary reparations at his and their own proper costs and expenses during the said term and in the end thereof so (?) shall lead and give up the same and if it happen the said yearly rent of ten shillings or any part thereof to be owing and unpaid by the space of one whole year next after any lease or the lease aforesaid in which the same ought to be paid being lawfully demanded and not paid and (?) sufficient distress in and upon the said premises or any part thereof by all that time (?) or may be found whereby the said rent so being behind with the advantages thereof (if any be) may be fully levied and paid that their and from thenceforth it shall and may be lawfull to and for the said Samuell Rolls and William Flamank and the survivor of them his heirs and assigns and for such other persons as aforesaid into all and singular the said premises in Lancarfe and Lancarfe Holton aforesaid to enter and the same to have again repossess and enjoy as is his or their former estate or right (anything herein contained to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding) and the said Samuel Rolls and William Flamank do for themselves severally and for their (?) executors and administrators and not jointly and for the other nor one for the others executors or administrators hereby covenant and promise to and with the said Thomas Hambly his executors administrators and assigns that they the said Thomas Hambly his executors administrators and assigns shall and may after the termination of the said term by and under the yearly rent covenant and conditions aforesaid peaceably and quietly have hold and enjoy all and singular the said premises with the appurtenances in manner and term aforesaid and during the term (?) without any the lawful let suite trouble molestation interruption disturbance or denial of them the said Samuel Rolls and William Flamank or either of them their or either of their executors administrators or assigns or of any other person or persons whatsoever lawfully claiming by from or under them or either of them provided always nevertheless and it is by these presents declared concluded and fully agreed upon by and between all the parties hereunto and it is their true intent and meaning that no word covenant grant (?) clause (?) or thing in these presents contained is meant or intended or shall be expounded continued or taken further or otherwise to oblige by covenant or otherwise them the said Samuell Rolls and William Flamank their executors administrators or assigns or either of them then only against themselves and their own executors and administrators and his and their own act and acts respectively (these presents or any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding) in witness whereof the parties aforesaid to these present indentures their hands and seals interchangeably have set herein the day and year first above written
Signed at the bottom with red seals (Signed) S Rolls and William Flamank
 
Endorsed on the rear:
Signed sealed and delivered by the within named Samuell Rolls (being written upon double sixpenny stamped parchment) in the presence of us
(signed) (?) Williams (?) Dennys
 
Endorsed on rear
I Edward Eliot of Port Eliot in the County of Cornwall do consent to the within written lease witness my hand (Signed) Edward Eliot
Witnesses (Signed) Edward? Daniels? (?) Dennys
 
Sealed signed and delivered by the within named William Flamank in his presence
 

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Transcribed by David Casley from a document in the Malcolm McCarthy Collection.