[...] and [...]aced in [th]e [...] of us. Ralph Whitfeld Thomas ffotherley 1639 Robert Thornton John Elvin

one [...] said late Citty doe conclude and agree that the said Robert Thomson and his assigns shall have and hold one wynd mill and one horse mill in the Island of Derry with th[e] appurten[a]nc[e]s within the Liberties of the said late Citty and now in the houlding of the said Robert and John and allsoe all the moulture soake and grinding of mault corne and agraine att and in the said mills and in the other mills as according to this agreement are to be built and erected for all the ten[a]nts and inhabitants of his ma[ies]t[ie]s houses and lands w[hi]ch are within the late Citty of Londonderry or the lib[er]ties thereof lyeing on that side of the river of Loughfoile on w[hi]ch the said late Citty is built, and all watercourses waies and passages to the mills to be erected according to this agreement and all those severall peeces and parcells of land with th[e] appurten[a]nc[e]s conteining by estimac[i]on seaven acres of Irishe measure and now or late in the severall tenures or occupac[i]ons of the said Rob[er]t Thornton and John Ellvyn and of Samuell Dawson John Hawkes John Palm[er] John Boyd John Kneeland Henry Sollers Richard Burdus Henry Addison Gabriell Larggs Walter Hamilton Richard Mutter John Westgate George Sanders Richard Morrice and Dame Ann Brooke widdow or their or some of their assignes and are lyeing and being together in the Island of Derry and all waies and passages unto the foresaid p[re]misses or anie p[ar]t thereof belonging or formerly enioyed therewith for the terme of one and twenty yeares from the ffeast of Th[e] an[n]unciac[i]on of the blessed virgin Mary now last past for and under the yearly rent of Twenty pounds sterling for the first yeare of the said one and twenty yeares paiable att the ffeasts of Th[e] an[n]unciac[i]on of the blessed virgin Mary now next ensueing and for and under the yearly rent of ffourty pounds sterling for the last twenty yeares residue of the said one and twenty yeares paiable att the ffeast of St Michaell Th[e] archangell Th[e] archangell and Th[e] an[n]unciac[i]on of the blessed virgin Mary by equall porc[i]ons the said rent to be paid unto his ma[ies]tie his heires and successors into the receipt of his ma[ies]t[ie]s Excheq[uer] 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 Uppon condic[i]on the said terme shall cease and be voyd if the said rent or any p[ar]t thereof shall be behind and unpaid by the space of ffifty daies next after anie of the said ffeasts or dayes of paiment aforesaid And the said Robert Thornton and John Ellvyn or their assignes shall att his or their p[ro]p[er] costs and chardges w[i]thin three yeares now next comeing erect and build and fully finishe uppon the p[re]misses one sufficient dwelling house of timber stone or bricke after the manner of an Englishe house two stories highe att the least and to conteine fower roomes att the least and shall allsoe within the said three yeares erect and build and fully finishe one or more water mill or mills in some convenient place or places uppon his ma[ies]t[ie]s lands within the said late Citty and lib[er]tyes thereof and that the said Robert and John or one of them or some other able and sufficient Ten[a]nt with his family shall from tyme to tyme after the building of the said house during the residue of the said terme of one and twenty yeares be resident and inhabitant in and uppon the said house and shall keepe and mainteine the aforesaid house and mills and all edifices and buildings w[hi]ch now or hereafter during the said terme shal[l] be uppon the said p[re]misses or shal[l] be made or erected as aforesaid by the said Robert and John or either of them their or either of their assignes according unto or by vertue of this agreement in good and sufficient rep[ar]ac[i]ons and shall within three yeares now next ensueing sett and make all the inclosures of and uppon the aforesaid p[re]misses with dike and double quicksett and keepe and mainteine the same well and sufficiently fenced ditched and inclosed during [th]e said terme and that the said Robert and John and their assignes shall during the said terme have and keepe in readines uppon the p[re]misses for the service of his ma[ies]tie his heires and successors one pike and corslett furnished in such manner as the same shal[l] be allowed by the muster master of the place where the p[re]misses are for the tyme being and the said Robert and John and their assignes shall from tyme to tyme during the said term have assigned and sett out unto them upon reasonable request by the Woodward or other officer of his ma[ies]tie his heirs and successors so much good and sufficient rough timber in convenient places within the late