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 capite for all rents or outgoings and demands whatsoever therefrom to the said Lady Queen her heirs and successors by whatever means to be rendered paid or done AND I the aforesaid Cecilia Pickerell and my heirs the aforesaid cottage or tenement to the aforesaid Robert his heirs and assigns in perpetuity for the aforesaid use against me the aforesaid Cecilia and my heirs will warrant and in perpetuity will defend by these presents AND MOREOVER know ye that I the aforesaid Cecilia have made ordained and constituted and in my room by these presents have put the to me beloved in Christ John Eyrycke and William Manbie my true and lawful attorneys jointly and severally to enter in my stead and in my name upon the aforesaid cottage or tenement with its appurtenances and full and peaceable possession therein to take and afterwards to deliver full and peaceable possession and seisin of and in the same cottage or tenement with its appurtenances to the aforesaid Robert or his in this behalf certain attorney according to the tenor force form and effect of this my present writing indented then completed for him holding and to hold satisfied and approved all and whatsoever my said attorneys in my stead and in my name shall have done or either of them shall have done of and in the premises by these presents IN WITNESS whereof to this my present writing indented I the aforesaid Cecilia have affixed my seal dated the seventh day of February in the fifth year of the reign of our Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God of England France and Ireland Queen Defender of the Faith

The use of the word "cottage," to describe the Hall and premises of the Corpus Christi Guild lying on the West side of St. Martin's churchyard, is somewhat strange. It may be due merely to legal conservatism, the parcels being copied from the original conveyance to the guild, when there was nothing but a cottage on the land, only the names of the tenants being brought up to date. Or it may be owing (as Mr. S. H. Skillington suggests), to a desire to minimise the importance which the 63