The scrivener's guide being choice and approved forms of presidents of all sorts of business now in use and practice, in a much better method than any yet printed, being useful for all gentlemen, but chiefly for those who practice the law, viz. assignments, articles of agreement, acquittances, bargains and sale, bills, conditions, copartnerships, covenants, deeds, defeazances, grants, joyntures, indentures, letters of attorny, licenses, obligations, provisoes, presidents for parish business, releases, revocations, wills, warrants of attorny, &c. / by Nicholas Cobert ...

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The scrivener's guide being choice and approved forms of presidents of all sorts of business now in use and practice, in a much better method than any yet printed, being useful for all gentlemen, but chiefly for those who practice the law, viz. assignments, articles of agreement, acquittances, bargains and sale, bills, conditions, copartnerships, covenants, deeds, defeazances, grants, joyntures, indentures, letters of attorny, licenses, obligations, provisoes, presidents for parish business, releases, revocations, wills, warrants of attorny, &c. / by Nicholas Cobert ...
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Covert, Nicholas.
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London :: Printed by the assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins ... for Charles Harper ...,
1700.
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"The scrivener's guide being choice and approved forms of presidents of all sorts of business now in use and practice, in a much better method than any yet printed, being useful for all gentlemen, but chiefly for those who practice the law, viz. assignments, articles of agreement, acquittances, bargains and sale, bills, conditions, copartnerships, covenants, deeds, defeazances, grants, joyntures, indentures, letters of attorny, licenses, obligations, provisoes, presidents for parish business, releases, revocations, wills, warrants of attorny, &c. / by Nicholas Cobert ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A69811.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.

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Articles for securing 1000 l. and paying Interest to two Persons, until Lands can be purchased to the same uses.

THis Indenture Tripartite, made, &c. Between M. B. of &c. of the first part; C. B. of, &c. of the second part; and J. P. and W. T. of, &c. of the third part. Whereas the said M. B. was lately seized of Freehold for term of her Life, of and in divers Messuages, Lands and Tenements in T. in the County of O. the Reversion thereof belong∣ing to the said C. B. and his Heirs, upon the death of the said M. And the said M. and C. being so seized, did bargain, sell and convey all the said Messuages, Lands and Tenements unto J. S. of T. aforesaid Gent. and his Heirs, for and in Conside∣ration of the entire Sum of 1000 l. for the pur∣chase of the several Interests of the said M. and C. in the premisses, by the said J. S. paid into the hands of the said J. P. and W. T. for the use of the said M. and C. To the intent and purpose, and upon agreement, that by and out of the said Sum of 1000 l. or the Interest and profit thereof, the yearly Sum of 40 l. might be paid and secured unto the said M. during her Life; and all the rest of the said 1000 l. and the benefit thereof, to be for the only use of the said C. and be dis∣posed as is herein after mentioned. Now this In∣denture witnesseth, That in pursuance of the A∣greement aforesaid, the said J. P. and W. T. do jointly and severally, for them and either of them∣selves, their and either of their Heirs, Executors and Administrators, covenant and grant to and with the said C. B. his Executors and Administ∣rators by these presents, That the said J. P. and W. T. their Executors or Administrators (some or one of them having Notice by the space of three

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Months before) shall and will at the now Dwelling-house of the said J. P. and W. T. in L. aforesaid, well and truly pay, or cause to be paid, the said Sum of 1000 l. to such person or persons, and in such manner and form as the said C. B. his Execu∣tors or Administrators shall direct or appoint, upon the sealing and executing a good and sufficient Conveyance and Assurance in the Law, for the payment of one Annuity or yearly Sum of 40 l. (to be issuing and going out of Lands or Tenements of Freehold in Fee-simple, or for Term of three Lives, or holden by a Lease for a Term of 50 years, at the least, unexpired, of the clear yearly value of 50 l. above Reprisals, and free from Incumbrances, to be approved by the said M. B.) to be paid unto the said M. B. and her Assigns, yearly and every year, during her Natural Life, at the Feasts of the Birth of our Lord, the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, and St. Michael the Arch-angel, by equal portions: The first payment thereof to begin and be made at such of the said Feasts as shall first and next hap∣pen after the sealing and executing such Convey∣ance and Assurance, as aforesaid. And also, That they the said J. P. and W. T. their Executors or Ad∣ministrators, yearly and every year, during the Life of the said M. B. or untill the Sealing and Execut∣ing such Conveyance and Assurance as aforesaid, at the place aforesaid, shall and will well and truly pay, or cause to be paid unto the said C. B. his Ex∣ecutors or Administrators 20 l. of lawful Mony of England at the four Feasts aforesaid, by equal portions, the first payment thereof to begin and be made at the Feast of the Birth of our Lord next coming. And also, That if default shall be made of Sealing and Ex∣ecuting such Conveyance and Assurance, as afore∣said, for payment of the said 40 l. per Annum unto the said M. B. during her Life; Then the said J. P.

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and W. T. their Executors or Administrators, shall and will within three Months next after such the death of the said M.B. at the place aforesaid, well and truly pay or cause to be paid unto the said C. B his Executors or Administrators, the said 1000 l. toge∣ther with so much Mony as shall or may be grown due for the Interest or Forbearance of the said 1000 l. after the rate by Law allowed, from such of the said four Feasts aforesaid, as shall happen next before the death of the said M. B. until such payment of the said 1000 l. And the said J. P. and W. T. do joyntly and severally, for them and either of themselves, their and either of their Heirs, Executors and Administrators, covenant and grant to and with the said M. B. her Executors and Administrators by these presents, That they the said J. P. and W. T. their Executors or Admi∣nistrators, yearly and every year, during the Life of the said M. B. or until the Sealing and Execut∣ing such conveyance and Assurance, as aforesaid, shall and will at the Place aforesaid, well and tru∣ly pay or cause to be paid unto the said M. B. or her Assigns, 40 l. of lawful Mony of England at the four Feasts aforesaid by equal portions, the first pay∣ment to begin and be made at the Feast of the Birth of our Lord next coming. Provided always, That if the said J. P. and W. T. their Executors or Admi∣nistrators, (the said C. B. his Executors or Admini∣strators, and the said M. B. having Notice by the space of three months before) do or shall at any time during the Life of the said M. B. at the place aforesaid, pay or cause to be paid unto the said C.B. his Executors or Administrators, and the said M.B. the said Sum of 1000 l. by such part, shares and proportions as they shall by Writing under their Hands and Seals direct and appoint, with so much of the said yearly Sums of twenty pounds and For∣ty pounds, as shall be then respectively unpaid unto

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the said C. B. and M. B. ratably and proportionably for the time the same shall be arrear; That then and from thenceforth, and at all times after this present Indenture, and all and every Covenant, Clause and Article therein contained, shall cease and become void. Any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

In witness, &c.

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