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messuage or tenement neere adjoyneing and
lyeing,
and being togeather in Ightham aforesaid; and alsoe of and in one
other barne [should be called ffurminichers" ], with
the appurtenances, scituate and being in Ightham aforesaid, over
against the aforesaid messuage ; and of and in one herbe garden and
two parcells of land conteining by estimacion seaven acres, more or
lesse, lyeing togeather in Ightham aforesaid; and alsoe of and in
six other severall parcells of land and wood called or knowné by
the names of Peckham, Broomes, and Dichers, or by what other name or
names they or any of them are, or have bine called or knowne,
conteineing in. the whole, by estimacion, twenty and fower acres,
Which said premisses or parte thereof theis defendants take
to be the messuage, lands, and premisses mencioned in the said bill
of Complainte, And being thereof soe seized, the said Thomas Hodsall,
as theis defendants beleive, and soc hope to prove, did, by
the name of Thomas Hodsall, of Ightham, in the county of Kent,
gent., and Dorothy his wife, by their deed dated the sixteenth of
October in the ffifthe yeare of the reigne of our late soveraigne
Lord Kinge Charles over England etc., for the consideration of one
hundred and ffower score pounds of lawfull money of England, to them
in hand by Anthony Hobbs of Ightham aforesaid, gent., well and trudy
paied, Did alsoe give, grante, bargaine, and sell unto the said
Anthony Hobbs the said messuage, landes, and premisses, and the
revercion and revercions, remainder and remainders of all and every
the said premisses and of every part and parcell thereof, To have
and to hold the said messuage," etc., "unto the
said Anthony Hobbs, his heirs and assignes," etc., "for
ever, With a Provisoe therein conteined, that if the said Thomas
Hodsall, his heires, executors or administrators, or any of them
should well and truely content and pay, or cause to be paied unto
the said Anthony Hobbs, his heirs," etc., "At or in
the then dwellinghouse of the said Thomas Hodsall, scituate in
Ightham aforesaid, the full sume of one hundred ffouer score
fouertene pounds and eight shillings of lawfull Englishe mony on the
eighteenth day of October which was in the yeare of our Lord God one
thousand six hundred and thirtye, that then the said Indenture of
bargaine and sale, guifte, and graunte should be utterly
void to all intents and purposes whatsoever, with divers others
covenants therein conteined (as) more at lardge may appeare, And doe
beleive that within some short time after the makeing of the said
Conveyance, he the said Thomas Hodsall dyed, haveing yssue of his
body, as theis defendants are informed, at the tyme of his
decease, William Hodsall, the complainants’ ffather, whoe
was his eldest sonne, and Stephen Hodsall and Henry Hodsall, unto
whome the equitie of redempcion did perteyne as being brothers, and
heires in Gavelkinde unto the said Thomas Hodsall their late ffather.
And theis defendants doe further say, that they doe beleive
that the complainants ffather was lefte in debt by the complainants’
grandfather, and that he the said William Hodsall could not tell
well howe to redeeme the said messuage and lands; and haveing, as
theis defendants verily beleive, about the time of his father’s
decease, marryed with one. of the daughters of Henry Maundy the
elder, of Sundrishe, in the said county, yoman, with whome he
had, as these defendants beleive, a good furtune, And the
said Henry Maundy finding the said messuage, landes, and premisses,
ingaged and forfeited, did, as theis defendants have heard,
paie in the monyes due unto the said Anthony Hobbs; And thereuppon,
as theis defendants beleive, the said William Hodsall and
Anthony Hobbs, by their Conveyance good in Lawe, beareing date the
ffirst day of October in the tenth yeare of the raigne of our late
soveraigne Lord Kinge Charles over England etc., by the name of
William Hodsall, of Ightham, in the county of Kent, gent., and
Anthony Hobbs, of Bromely, in the said county, gent., thereby
reciteing that for and in consideration of the sume of three hundred
and thirtie poundes of lawfull Englishe mony," etc., "payed
by the said Henry Maundy the elder and Henry Maundy his sonne, that
is to say, one hundred and ffower score pounds thereof to the said
Anthony Hobbs, and the residue thereof to the said William Hodsall,
the receipt whereof they did thereby acknowledge, Did grant, alyene,
sell, enfeoffe, and confirme unto the said Henry Maundy the elder
and Henry Maundy his sonne, their heires and assignes the said
messuage, lands, and premisses, To have and to hold the said |