[...] 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 Cittie or lib[er]ties thereof and that the said Symon Henry and Robert or one of them or some other able and sufficient ten[a]nt with his family shall from time to time 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 are or hereafter during the said terme shal[l] be uppon the aforesaid p[re]misses or shal[l] be made or erected as aforesaid by the said Symon Henry and Robert or anie 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 comeing sett and make all the inclosures of and uppon the foresaid p[re]misses with dike and double quicksett and soe keepe and mainteine the same well [and] sufficiently fenced ditched and inclosed during the said terme and that the said Symon Henry and Robert 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 of by the mustermaster of the place where the p[re]misses are for the time being and the said Simon Henry and Robert and their assignes shall from time to time during the said terme have assigned and sett out unto them uppon reasonable request by the Woodward or other officer of his ma[ies]tie his heires and successors soe much good and sufficient roughe timber in convenient places within the late countie of Londonderry to be cutt downe and brought away att the chardges of the said Simon Henry and Rob[er]t and their assignes as shal[l] be sufficient for the building of the said mill and house And shall yearly during the said terme sett and plant uppon some part of the foresaid p[re]misses two young trees of oake or ashe fitt or likely to grow to be timber trees and the same or others to be sett or planted in the roome and steed of such of them as shall happen to dye shall mainteine p[re]serve and keepe from hurt and spoile during the said terme And that his ma[ies]tie wil[l] be gratiously pleased to confirme this agreement by his l[ett]res patents under the great Seale of England and that the s[ai]d Symon Henry and Robert shall coven[a]nt and grant thereby for them their heires executors administrators and assignes to p[er]forme what is hereby agreed on their parts And it is hereby declared that this contract and agreem[en]t is made by the said Commission[er]s with the said Simon Henry and Robert as trustees for the benefitt of such Corporac[i]on as his ma[ies]tie shal[l] be pleased to make in the said late Citty In witnes whereof the said Commissioners and the said Simon, Henry, and Robert have putt to their hands the day and yeare abovewritten:

Raphe Whitfeld Tho[mas] ffotherley 1639 Simon Pitts Henry ffinche Rob[ert] Goodwin

One Pike and Corslett Two trees

George Downing 161.

The said one and thirtieth day of August the said Commissioners for and on his ma[ies]t[ie]s behalfe by vertue of the said Commission and George Downing of Ballikelley in the late countie of Londonderry gent[leman] doe conclude and agree that the said George Downing and his assignes shall have and hold one messuage or Tenem[en]t and the garden and backside thereunto belonging with th[e] app[ur]ten[a]nc[e]s in Queenestreete in the said late Citty and allsoe one peece or parcell of land conteining by estimac[i]on ffifteene acres and an halfe Irishe measure with th[e] appurten[a]nc[e]s neere Bally mc Rorty within the lib[er]ties of the said late Citty all w[hi]ch p[re]misses now are or late were in the tenure or occupac[i]on of the said George Downing and Mathias Browne or one of them their or one of their assignes with all waies and passages unto the p[re]misses or anie part thereof belonging or formerly enioyed therewith w[i]th the like excepc[i]ons and for the terme of one and twenty yeares from the ffeast of the Annunciac[i]on of the blessed Virgin Mary now last past for and under the yearly rent of Twelve pounds and ffive shillings sterling paiable in such manner and att such dayes [and] times and with under and uppon such further and the like condic[i]on coven[a]nts and agreements as in the foresaid agreem[en]t made by the said Commissioners and John Kneeland beforenamed are conteined In witnes whereof the said Commissioners and the said George Downing have put to their hands the day and yea r abovewri tten:

Ralph Whitfeld Thomas Fotherley 1639 George Downing

xii li. v s. Two Trees one muskett