Hackney and Stepney (1 results)

.[TITLE CONTINUES] forfeitures, guardian, gavelkind, homage, heir, last will, leases, leet, mears and stakes, partition, quit-rents, reeve, recovereies, recognition, Stewards fees, severing, waste, &c. To which is prefix'd an act of perpetual establishment of the said customs and privileges, and for confirmation of the copyhold estates and customs of divers copyholders of the said manors, according to certain indentures of agreement, and a decrce in the High Court of Chancery, made between the lord of the said manors and the copyholders. With two alphabetical tables .12mo, pp [4],128, bound in contemporary calf, neatly rebacked in calf with raised bands and no label, internally with title page a bit browned, especially and edges, and with some penmarks, else a sound copy; FIRST EDITION THUS. essentially a reprinting of the 17th century act upholding copyholder's rights in Stepney and Hackney, and with, at the end, a list of the original copyholders [i.e. tenants].…