Sandes Nicholas West Francis Cheney Henry Cheney Thomas Ashfeild Roberte Caloner John Lawton their heirs or assignes to the vse aforesaid fully contented satisfied & payd. And furthurmore Knowe yee me the sayd Thomas Cheney to haue put the sayd Myles Sandꝭ nicholas West Francis Cheney Henry Cheney Thomas Ashfeild Robert Caloner & John Lawton & every of there heirs & assignes in full and peacable posession of the sayd yerely rent of Fyve poundꝭ by the Delivery of iiijd vnto the said John Lawton in the name of all the rest In witnes where of I the above named Thomas Cheny to this psente graunt have set my hand & seale the one and Twentith Day of November in the xxth yere of the reigne of ouͬ sovereigne Ladie Elizabeth by the grace of God of England France & Ireland Quene Defendoͬ of the Fayth &c. Provyded alvays that the pson of the said Thomas Cheney shall not be charged wth any such rente or Rentꝭ as is aforesaid as is agreed the Day & yere above written
The originall Deed of the pͬmisses remay-
neth in the Custodie of Francis Cheny second
sonn to thabovenamed John Cheney.
The Copie of the Sedule.
The true intent vse & meañng of this pͬsent grant herevnto annexed is as hereafter in this prsente sedule is menconed and none other that is to say that the wthin named Esquiers gentlemen & others to whome the yerely rent of Fyve poundꝭ mencõed in the said graunt is given & their heirs & assig̃es for ever shall stand seised of the sayd yerely rente of five poundꝭ to the onely vse & behoof of the poore people inhabiting & Dwelling in the wthin named Townes of Chesham Agmondishmͣ & Drayton Beauchampe, that is to witt only to such of the said poore people as are good & godly in living & haue most need of the releiff. & Furthur the true meãing of this pͬsent graunt is such that when and as often as all the said Esquiers gentlemen & others to whome this pͬsent graunte of the said Fyve poundꝭ is made shall Depart from this psent[1] lyfe saving two of them, that then the said two over living shall graunte the said yerely rente over vnto fyve or six other ꝑsons & to their heirs to the vses aforesayd & to none other vses intentꝭ &
- ↑ (sic) present is meant (Wikisource contributor note)
