out unto the said Thomas Bacon or his assignes from time to time during the said term by the Woodward or other officer of his ma[ies]tie his heires and successors rough tim ber for building and finishing the foresaid Castle or Capitall house and houseboote in conveni ent places within the late County of Londonderry to be spent uppon the p[re]misses and not elsew here And that the said Thomas Bacon and his assignes shall and may from time to time during the said terme have and take fireboot and hedgeboote to be taken in and upon the roots stumps and truncks of dead trees fallen or lyeing on the ground and not fitt for building thornes bushes shreadings and lopps of trees and underwoods growing uppon the the p[re]misses if the same be there to be had the same to be spent uppon the p[re]misses and not otherwise. And that [th]e said Thomas Bacon and his assignes shall within three yeares now next comeing fence enclose and encoppice with dike and quicksett twentie acres Irishe measure of the woods and woodgrounds p[ar]cell of the foresaid p[re]misses and the same with good and sufficient fences [and] inclosures shall well and sufficiently p[re]serve and keepe during the said terme and allsoe the same twenty acres shall during the said terme p[re]serve and keepe as Coppicewoods from hurt and spoil and uppon every fell that shal[l] be made thereof shall new incopice the same with sufficient fences and inclosures after the manner and usage in England and shall allsoe p[re]serve and keepe upon everie acre of the foresaid twenty acres att everie felling and cutting thereof thirtie young storiers and thirtie standalls of oake and ashe fitt to make timber trees And that his ma[ies]tie wil[l] be gratiously pleased to ratifie and confirme this agreement by his L[ett]res patents under the great Seale of England and that the said Thomas Bacon shall coven[a]nt and grant thereby for him his heires executors administrators and assignes to performe what is hereby agreed on his part In witnes whereof the said Commissioners and the said Thomas Bacon have putt to their hands the day and yeare abovewritten:

Raphe Whitfeld Tho[mas] ffotherley 1639 Tho[mas] Bacon

xx iiii li Tenn closes Twenty tr ees One P ike and Corsl et One musket

Raphe Whistler

The ffive and twentieth day of September in the ffifteeneth yeare of his ma[ies]ties reigne Annoq[ue] D[omi]ni 1639 the foresaid S[i]r Raphe Whitfeld and Thomas ffotherley his ma[ies]t[ie]s Commissioners for and on his ma[ies]t[ie]s behalfe by vertue of the said Commission and Raphe Whistler of Salters Towne in the late countie of Londonderry Esquire Doe conclude and agree that his ma[ies]tie wil[l] be gratiously pleased to erect and create a Court Leete w[hi]ch shall extend and have Iurisdict[i]on over all the residents and inhabitants within the late Mannor of Sal [and] Proporc[i]on of land called the Salters Proporc[i]on in the late county of Londonderry to be houlden within the said Proporc[i]on twice everie yeare as Leetes are or ought to be houlden in England And that the said Raphe Whistler and his assignes shall have and hold the said Court Leete and all the ffines issues amercements and profitts thereof. And allsoe all that Capitall Messuage or Mannor house with th[e] appurten[a]nc[e]s commonly called or knowne by the name of Salters Towne ffort or by whatsoever other name or names the same be called or knowne and all barnes stables outhouses and buildings orchards and gardens now in the occupac[i]on of the said Raphe Whistler and to the said Capitall messuage or Mannor house belonging And all those Townelands halfe-townelands and parcells of land with their appurten[a]nc[es] commonly called or knowne by the severall name or names of Bally-Mulltra Ballidonnell the two Balligillans the two Ballineales Ball[...]arte the two Ballironans Ballirogeldy Balligurke Dremena Gortogurke al[l]s[o] Ballihegelishe Bailireffe Ballimullogon Dunnronan Maghadowyn the halfe Towneland of Ballilifford the halfe Towneland of Augheram Meola Tawna Downarnan Tawney Desert Dowyn Ballinegarrow Lisemnmara Balligerrick Etra and Drummanare and one water corne mill in or neere Salters Towne and the moulture toll and grinding of the mault corne and graine of and for the ten[a]nts of the said Proporc[i]on except onely the ten[a]nts of Seaventeene Townelands w[hi]ch have formerly ground att Magharafelt Mill and all houses cabbins edifices and buildings thereupon all w[hi]ch p[re]misses conteine by estimac[i]on six thousand and two hundred acres Irishe measure and are scituate lyeing and being in DesertMartyn Artra and Tawghlate Killetra or else were in the late countie of Londonderry and allsoe all waifes and Estraies happening within the said late Mannor or Proporc[i]on and allsoe all waies and passages to the foresaid p[re]misses or anie part thereof belonging or formerly enioyed therewith Excepting and allwaies reserving unto his ma[ies]tie his heires and successors All Donac[i]ons p[re]sentac[i]ons and guifts of Advowsons of Churches Viccaridges and Chappells All his ma[ies]t[ie]s woods in Glanconkeyne and Killetra and allsoe all timber and timber trees mynes and quarryes in upon belonging or