The nineteenth day of August in the fifteenth year of his Majesty’s reign Annoq[ue] D[omi]ni 1639 the foresaid Sir Ralph Whitfeld and Thomas Fotherley his ma[ies]t[ie]s Commissioners for and on his ma[ies]t[ie]s behalfe by virtue of the said Commission and Edward Rowley of Castell Roe in the late countie of Londonderry esquire doe conclude and agree that the said Edward Rowley and his assignes shall have and hold Two cottages or tenem[en]ts one tannhouse and one orchard with th[e] appurten[a]nc[e]s in the late cittie of Londonderry als[o] Derry conteining by estimac[i]on nine and ffifty perches and now or late in the tenure or occupac[i]on of [th]e said Edward Rowley or his assignes with all waies and passages thereunto belonging or formerly enioyed therew[i]th Excepting and res[er]ving unto his ma[ies]tie his heires and successors all timber and timber trees mynes and quarryes in uppon or belonging to the p[re]misses or any part thereof and all such reasonable waies and passages over the p[re]misses for the ten[a]nts and occupiers of his ma[ies]t[ie]s other lands as have formerly binn used and allsoe all the ffishings and takeing of sallmons Eeles and other ffishe in [th]e river and ffishings of Loughfoyle and in all the rivers creekes and streames within the Province of Ulster and in everie of them and the soile and ground thereof with free lib[er]ty for his ma[ies]tie his heires [and] successors and his and their ten[a]nts ffarmers and ffishers of the said rivers and ffishings or either of them to make houses shedds and other convenient places for lodging of ffishermen and others to be imployed in and about the said rivers creekes and ffishings or any of them and to draw their netts and carry their ffishe on land and doe anie other thing else whatsoever uppon the p[re]misses concerning the said ffishings for the terme of one and twentie yeares from the ffeast of the Annunciac[i]on of the blessed virgin Mary now last past for and under the yearly rent of ffive pounds sterling paiable unto his ma[ies]tie his heires and successors into the Receipt of his ma[ies]t[ie]s Exchequer in England or unto the hands of the Receivor of his ma[ies]tie his heires and successors for the tyme being for the Reven[n]ue of Londonderry als[o] Derry and Colerane or either of them att the ffeasts of St Michaell Th[e] archangell and Th[e] annunciac[i]on of the blessed Virgin Mary by equall porc[i]ons Uppon condic[i]on that the said terme shall cease and be void if the said rent or any part thereof shal[l] be behind and unpaid by the space of fifty days next after anie of the said ffeasts or daies of paim[en]t aforesaid and the said Edward Rowley or some other able and sufficient ten[a]nt with his family shall from tyme to tyme dur ing the said terme of one and twenty yeares be resident and inhabitant in and uppon th[e] aforesaid premisses and that all inhabitants w[hi]ch during the said terme shal[l] be uppon the p[re]misses shall grind att such mill or mills as his ma[ies]tie hath or as he his heires or successors shall erect or have within the lib[er]ties of the said late Citty all his and their mault corne and graine w[hi]ch he or they shall expend or use uppon the p[re]misses or being ground shall sell to anie person or persons and pay for grinding thereof to the miller of the said mill for the tyme being where the same shal[l] be soe ground the sixteenth part of all the said mault corne and graine and keepe and mainteine th[e] aforesaid cottages and tanhouse with th[e] appurten[a]nc[e]s during the said terme in good and sufficient reparac[i]ons and within ffive yeares next ensueing well and sufficiently fence inclose and sett with double quicksett or other good and sufficient inclosures all the ffences and inclosures belonging to th[e] aforesaid p[re]misses and the same soe well [and] sufficiently fenced inclosed and quicksetted shall keepe and mainteine during the residue of the said terme. And that his ma[ies]tie wil[l] be pleased to confirme this agreem[en]t by his L[ett]res patents under the great Seale of England and that the said Edward shall coven[a]nt and grant thereby for him his heires executors administrators and assignes to p[er]forme what is hereby agreed on his part In witnes whereof the said Commissioners and the said Edward Rowley have putt to their hands the day and yeare abovewritten:

Raphe Whitfeld Tho[mas] ffotherley 1639 Edw[ard] Rowley

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Stephen Godfrey 2.

The nineteenth day of the said monethe of August the said Commissioners for and on his Majesty’s behalfe by vertue of the said Commission and Stephen Godfrey of Londonderry als[o] Derry [...] do conclude and agree that the said Stephen Godfrey and his assignes shall have and hold [...] messuage or tenement [...]