MRP: C 9/240/194 f. 1
C 9/240/194 f. 1
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//The joynt and severall answers of Barnabas Walsall gent and Thomas Leyston of Plaxtoll in the county of Kent exect:s of the last Will & Testament of W:m Stanley late of the Middle Temple London gent. deceased de:t to y:e Bill of Complaint of John Stanley Cittizen and Gouldsmith of London and Thomas Stanley his sonn Comp:lts//
//Thesaid Def:ts saveinge to themselves all advantage of Excepconn to the incerteynty and insufficiency of the said Bill of Comp:lt for answer thereunto says That true it is also they==//
//These def:tsverily beleavethat W:m Stanley in the said Bill named was in his Life tyme one of the deputie Clerkes of ??Incollin:tl in y:e high court of Chancery And that in or about the month of//
//July w:ch was Ano dm 1648= hee the said W:m did contract w:th the said Comp:lt Jo:n Stanley to Grant & confess upon y:s s.d Comp:lt Thomas Stanley his sonne a Clerkes place in the said Inrollm:t office commonlie called//
//Willyam Stanleys second division = upon Condicon = That he the said Compl:t Thomas Stanley should yeeld upp surrender and leave the said place or Division unto & to y:e use of the said Willyam Stanley//
//at such tyme as hee the said Willyam should demand y:e same = But whether the said Willyam Stanley did contract and agree w:th y:e said Comp:lt John Stanley to putt y:e said Thomas Stanley in =//
//Actuall possession of thesaid place = Or whether the condiconn of Surrender of the said place to the said Willyam Stanley were to be doing (in case thesaid Willyam did recover of his then=//
//sicknesse = Or whether thesaid Thomas Stanley were ever actuallie possessed of or did at anie tyme officiate in thesaid place theise def:ts doe not knowe = And theise def:ts further say That//
//there is comme unto their hands (as Executo:rs of thesaid Willyam Stanley (who dyed in or about e the tenth day of September 1648 as in the said Bill of Complaint is declared) XXXX severall//
//Obligaconns dated y:e Thirteenth day of July 1648 = By one of w:ch thesaid Comp:lts John & Thomas Stanley stand bound to the said Willyam Stanley with the penall somme of Twoe hundred//
//pounds w:th Condiconn writing (int alia) That whereas th’abovenamed Willyam Stanley beinge then one of the deputy clarkes (of) th’inrollm:t Office in Chancery hath granted & confessed unto//
//th’abovenamed Thomas Stanley a Clarks place in the said inrollm:t Office commonlie called y:e said Willyam Stanleys second division to the intent & purpose that the said Thomas shall from//
//tyme to tyme execute & perform y.e business ariseing out of certeyne counties properly belonging to the said Second division = & to receive & enioye the due ffees of right belonging unto the said//
//Thomas as Clarke in the said division to his owne proper use & benefitt etc = ?y:e Def:t THEREFORE ??thabove (sic) bound Thomas Stanley shall well & trulie Leave upp & surrender the said Clarkes place (soe//
//Granted & conferred to thesaid Thomas) unto & to the use of thesaid W:m ers at such tyme or tymes or whenever he y:e said W:m shall require or demand thesame = And likewise leaves & dep:e//
//thesaid Office etc = And by that ??thother Obligacon before menconned thesaid comp:lts stand Bound to the said W:m Stanley in y:e penall somme of One hundred pounds - w:ch condicon subscribed=//
//writinge = That if theabovebound John and Thomas Stanley neither of them their or either of their heires executors adm:ors or Assignes doe well & trulie paie unto Tho: Stanley the sonn//
//of th’abovebond Willyam Stanley the some of Threescore pounds of lawfull monie of England or to theexecuto:rs adm:rs or assignes of thesaid Willyam w:thin Three monethes after the //
//decease of the said Willyam = That then the said Obligacon to be void = But Whether the said Last recited Obligacon were made & sealed in consideraton of the granting & conferring//
//the said Clerkes place upon the said Comp:lt Thomas Stanley & putting him in actuall possession of theise def:ts doe not certeynlie Knowe= however they cannot denye but that they have =//
//crediblie heard & doe verily beleave That thesame was made & sealed for the Consideraconn aforesaid nor doe they knowe or have heard that the same was entred into for anie other consideraconn//
//Neither doe theise def:ts knowe of any condiconn or agreem:t made betweene y:e said W:m Stanley and the said Comp:lts that if the said W:m Stanley (being then sick) should happen to dye of thesame sicknesse//
//before he should conferr thesaid Clarkes place upon thesaid comp:lt Tho: Stanley or putt him ina ctuall possession thereof That then the executors adm:ors or assignes of the said Willyam//
//or his said sonn should take noe benefitt of the said Bond; But cause thesame to be delivered upp to bee cancelled; neither doe y.e said def:ts Knowe whether y:e said Willyam Stanley did//
//transferring y:e said Clerks pplace upon y:e said comp:lt Thomas Stanley or putt him in actuall possession thereof, or soe Long deferr or delaythesame y:t it could not bee done as in y:e said //
//Bill of Comp:lt is alleadged = WITHOUT that that annie other matter or thinge in y:e said comp:lts said bill Could ??paied materiall or effectuall in y:e Lawe to bee made answer unto it.
Ri: Allery
