This is the final agreement, made in the court of the lord the
king at
Westminster, from the day of saint Michael in one month, in the twenty
first year of the reign of the lord GEORGE the second by the grace of
God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland king, defender of the faith,
and so forth, before John Willes, Thomas Abney, Thomas Burnet, and
Thomas Birch, justices, and other faithful subjects of the lord the
king then there present, between David Edwards, esquire, complainant,
and Abraham Barker, esquire, and Cecilia his wife, and John Barker,
esquire, deforciants, of two
messuages, two gardens, three hundred acres of land, one hundred acres
of meadow, two hundred acres of pasture, and fifty acres of wood, with
the appurtenances, in Dale, whereupon a plea of covenant was summoned
between them in the same court; to wit, that the aforesaid Abraham,
Cecilia, and John, have acknowleged the aforesaid tenements, with the
appurtenances, to be the right of him the said David, as those which
the said David hath of the gift of the aforesaid Abraham, Cecilia, and
John; and those they have remised and quitted claim, from them and
their heirs, to the aforesaid David and his heirs for ever. And
further, the same Abraham, Cecilia, and John, have granted for
themselves and their heirs, that they will warrant to the aforesaid
David and his heirs, the aforesaid tenements, with the appurtenances,
against all men for ever. And for this recognition, remise, quitclaim,
warranty, fine, and agreement, the said David hath given to the said
Abraham, Cecilia, and John, two hundred pounds sterling.
Source: II Blackstone,
Commentaries, Appendix, xv-xvi.