ET CONSORTS

To the Right honorable Sir Nicholas Bacon knighte Lorde keeper of the greate Seale of Englande.

Humblye compleyninge shewen vnto yo’ good Lordship yo* orators Peter Lyllye and Jane his wyefe, John Manwoode and Katryne his wyefe, Rycharde fforthe and Elizabethe his wiefe, That wheare as yo’ sayde orators beene lawfullye seazed of and in the moyetye of the mannor or farme of Myddelton tyars ahias mydelton tyas in the countye of Yorke and of fyve messuages nyne cottages vj oxganges of lande and meadowe, and of a hundrede acres of lande and xx‘ acres of meadowe in Midelton tyars, Estharlessye, and Huddleswell, which sometyme were of Rycharde Burghe and William Burghe deceasede or of eyther of theim. Soe It ys righte honorable lorde, That by collor of certen evydences and wrytinges belongynge to yo" sayde orators touchinge the premisses commen to the handes of Rowlande Place nowe deceasede and of his wyefe nowe lyvinge, and the wyefe of Walter Strycklande esquier, and to the handes of the sayde Walter Strycklande, and to the handes of John Layton Redman, Rayne, John Tysdale, and Reynolde Keplyn and other there adherentes, They the sayde John Layton and the others above namede claymynge Intereste in the one moyetye of the sayde Mannor and landes have allso occupyede that moyetye of the sayde mannor and Landes belonginge to your sayde Orators And the sayde John Layton pretendethe to houlde the same as his Inherytaunce and the other persons by Leaze or leazes supposede to be made by the sayde Rycharde and William Burghe for terme of yeares yet enduringe vppon which lease or Leasses (yf enye suche leaze maye be provede good and suffyciente in the lawe) Rente there-