# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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Libr Cand Cancellar^d 1629

At Castle Rushen 4^th of August 1629

Arthur Figes Steward of Abbey Lands under the Right Honourable
the Lady Alice Countess of Dowager of Derby hath come into the Chancery Court
thousand there holden before us & hath moved by way of complaint ag^t Divers
of the Abbey Tennants That they have refused to pay over unto him—
their fines for none Terms of Leases of their Grants Contrary to their—
covenants & Compositions made with him Whereupon the Serjeants and
under officers Sworne for the said Steward were called to present according
to form of Law the Disobedience of the said Tenants in that behalf that the—
Same Soe appearing—all Lawfull ayde & assistance Might be given him
by Strength of Soldiers Either to Distrayn upon every the Goods of Such the
Disobedient Tennants or to comitt their bodys to prison till they had paid
all, but the said Serjeants being put to Deliver the Truths upon their—
oaths could not prove That any of the said Tennants did covenant or compound
to pay to the s^d Steward Such Somes of Money as he caused the Serjeants
Demand from them & therefore they can give in no Effectual presentment
of Disobedience ag^t them moreover the s^d Tennants being all of them called—
have Utterly Denyed that they yeilded to any agreement with the Steward
for fines more than that they promised always to be readie to pay
unto him at reasonable days of payment Soo Much Money for the fines
of their Tennements as was ever paid by any of their predecessors—
concerning the same Relatable to the Term of the years now to be Sett
unto them & this Confession of the Tennants is all the Substance that
can be proved ag^t them Which the Stewards figes altogether Saith
he will not accept of from them Wherefore the Deemsters With the
advice of the Officers & Soe many of the 24 Re as are present in
this Court finding noe Certain agreement for payment of the said—
fines between the Stewards and the Tennants but the so Differences

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