# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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Libr Cur Cancellar 1629

At Castle Rushen 4^th of Aug 1629

Arthur Jiges Steward of Abby Lands under the Right Honble
the Lady Alice Countes Dowager of Derby hath come into the
Chancery Court then and there holden before us and hath moved by way of
Complaint ag^t divers of the Abbey Tennants that they have refused to pay
over unto him their ffines for new Terms of Leases of their grants contrary to
their Covenants & Compositions made with him whereupon the Serjants
and under Officers sworne for the s^d Steward were called to present accord^g
to form of Law the Disobedience of the s^d Tennants in that behalf that the
same soe appearing all lawfull ayde & assistance might be given him
by strength of Soldiers either to distrayne upon every the goods of such the
disobedient Tennants or to comitt their bodys to prison till they had paid
all but the s^d Serjants 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 Serjants
demand from them & therefore they can give in no effectuall presentments
of Disobedience against them Moreover the Tennants being all of them called
have utterly denyed that they yeilded to any Agreement with the Steward
for ffines more than that they promised alwayes to be ready to pay unto
him at reasonable days of payment soe much Money for the ffines
of their Tennements as was ever paid by any of their predecessors concerning
the same Ratable to the Term of the years now to be lett unto them
& this Confession of the Tennants is all the Substance that can be
proved ag^st them Which the Stewards ffiges altogether Saith he will
not accept of from them Wherefore the Deemsters with the advice of
the Officers & so many of the 24 Ke as are present in the Court find
noe certain Agreement for payment of the s^d Fines between the
Stewards and the Tennants but these Differences thus to river amongst
them doe for answer Say that they cannot proceed in Judgement to
cause the Tennants to pay what they Steward demandeth of them And
Whereas the s^d Steward by force of Authoritie to him granted from the
s^d Countes as he alledgeth craveth Assistance to enter upon the
Grounds of such the Tennants as deny to pay unto him what ffines

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