[...] excepting and reserving unto his Majesty his heires [and] successors all timber and timber trees mines and quarries in upon or belonging to the p[re]misses or any part thereof and all such reasonable ways and passages over the premises for the ten[a]nts and occupiers of his Majesty’s other lands as have formerly binn used for the terme of one and twenty yeares from the ffeast of the An[n]unciac[i]on of the blessed Virgin Mary now last past for and under the yearly rent of seaven pounds sterling paiable unto his ma[ies]tie his heirs and successo[r]s into the Receipt of his ma[ies]t[ie]s Excheq[uer] in England or unto the hands of the Receiver of his ma[ies]tie his heires and successors for the time being for the Reven[n]ue of Londonderry als[o] and Colerane or either of them a t the ffeasts of Th[e] an[n]unc[iacion] of the blessed virgin Mary and St Michaell Th[e] archangell by even and equall porc[i]ons Uppon condic[i]on that the said terme shall cease and be voyd if the said rent or any part thereof shal[l] be behind and unpaid by the space of ffifty daies next after anie of the said ffeasts of daies of paim[en]t aforesaid and the said John or some other able and sufficient ten[a]nt with his family shall from time to time during the said terme of one and twenty yeares be resident and inhabitant in and uppon th[e] aforesaid p[re]misses and all the persons w[hi]ch shal[l] be inhabitants uppon the said p[re]misses shall during the said terme grind att such mill or mills as his ma[ies]tie hath or as he his heires or successors shall erect make or have within the li[ber]tyes of the said late Citty all such 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 or mills for the time being the sixteenth part of all the said mault corne and graine and keepe and mainteine th[e] aforesaid messuages or tenem[en]ts and buildings w[i]th 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 w[i]th quicksett or other good [and] sufficient inclosures where quicksett will not grow all the fences 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 shall yearly during the said term sett and plant uppon some p[ar]t of th[e] aforesaid p[re]misses two young trees of o ak or ash fit and likely to grow to be timber trees or other trees where oake and ashe will not grow and the same or others to be sett and planted in the roomes and steeds of such of them as sh all happen to dye shall mainteine p[re]serve and keepe from hurt and spoile during the said terme And that the said John and his assignes shall during the said terme have and keepe in redines uppon the premisses for the service of his ma[ies]tie his heires and successors one muskett 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 time being 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 John 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 Com[missioner]s and the said John have putt to their hands the day and yeare abovewritten:

Raphe Whitfeld Tho[mas] ffotherley 1639 John Kneeland

Two Trees One Muskett

Edward Nicholson .4.

The said nineteenth day of August the aforesaid Commissioners for and on his ma[ies]t[ie]s behalfe by vertue of the said Commission and Edward Nicholson of the late cittie of Londonderry Chandler doe conclude and agree that the said Edward Nichollson and his assignes shall have and hold all that messuage or tenement with the garden backsides and buildings thereunto belonging in Gratious streete in the late citty of Londonderry and one p[ar]cell of land conteining by estimac[i]on eight acres and fower and thirty p[er]ches Irishe measure lyeing by or neere the Mountaine and within the lib[er]ties of the said late citty and one p[ar]cell of land in the Iland of Derry laid out for a garden plott and conteining by estimac[i]on fower score and two p[er]ches all w[hi]ch p[re]misses now are in the tenure or occupac[i]on of the said Edward Nicholson or his assigns w[i]th all waies and passages unto the p[re]misses or any part thereof belonging or formerly enioyed therewith with the like excepc[i]ons and for the terme of one and twenty yeares from the ffeasts of Th e annunciation of the blessed virgin M ary now last past for and under the yearly rent of five pounds [...]