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Assignment from Thomas Smyth alias Courte of Tanworth baker to John Taylor of Tanworth yeoman for £20 of a lease of a messuage called Davies house with three closes adjoining the said house and a closes lying to the Fordeway called Farre Westworth, and the further part of a close adjoining the same called the Great Westworth lying next to the headland next to the Church path, which property Francis Buckley and his wife Elizabeth leased to Thomas Griffin, 5 March 9 James I [ 1612/3], [ see no. 1758]; to hold for the remainder of the term stated at the stated rent. Signed: Thomas Smyth alias Courte by mark. Dated 22 September 16 James I. Witnesses, endorsed: John Randoll scribe, John Hunt, Thomas Higham, Richard Morris, Henry Smyth alias Courte. Circular seal of red wax on tag, 1/2 in., a swan. English, parchment, 19 x 9 ins., indented.