Deputy of that Manour; or Woman examined, as foresaid, in open Court, or otherwise. All Surrenders taken by the Reeve or his Deputy, or by a Headborough, and in the Presence of six Tenants, and not presented by the said Homage in Manner and Form aforesaid, are and shall be void. But when any Surrender shall be made by any Person, to the Use of his or her last Will and Testament, to the Intent that he or She may thereby, or thereupon, make and declare his or her last Will and Testament: that Surrender is to be presented at the first or second Court general of that Manour, hapning next after the Decease of the Party so surrendring perfectly known, and not before. But if the same be not at the first or second Court (next after the Death of the same Party) presented; or if the same Party hath before (in his Life time) made any other Surrender of the same Lands or Tenements; and the same to be presented: Then the sad Surrender, to the Use of such last Will and Testament, is, and shall be void.

ITem, the Homage must write Billa Vera, upon every Surrender by them presented, when they find the same Surrenders agreeable to the Custom. And also upon every other of their Presentments, shall make Billa Vera, when they be agreeable to the said Custom. Or else, if the said Homage receive any Surrender, or other Bills to them exhibited, which be doubtful or repugnant to the Custom of the Manour whereof the Land is holden, upon every such Surrender or Bill, Ignoramus shall be made, or the like Superscription, to the Intent it may be known to be doubtful or naught: or else return the same naughty Surrenders or Bills back again, to the Parties that exhibited the same.

ITem, every Woman being Covert-baron, of the Age of one and twenty Years, or upwards, having any customary Lands or Tenements to her or her Heirs, for Life, Lives, or Years, and holden of the said Manours, or of either of them; may together with her Husband (by the Hands of the said Steward, or his sufficient Deputy) surrender all her said Lands and Tenements, Interest, and Term of Years, to the Use of her said Husband, or to any other Person or Persons at their Will and Pleasure; so as she be solely and secretly examined before the Steward, or his sufficient Deputy.

ITem, all Surrenders taken out of the Court by the Steward of the said Manours, or of any of them, or his sufficient Deputy, of any Person or Persons, being of the full Age of one and twenty Years, or more, and of Sanæ Memoriæ, of any of their customary Lands and Tenements holden of the said Manours, or of either of them, be good by the Customs of the said Manours, and of either of them; and the same ought to be published and notified to the Homage at the next general Court, or else those Surrenders are also void.

ITem, all the Fines upon Admittances for any the now Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, of all and every the Persons, named Parties to the said Indenture, holden by Copy of Court Roll, are and ought to be certain, and not arbitrary, or at the Will of the Lord. And the Lord or Lords of the said Manours, or of either of them, ought to have and take Fines upon Admittances, as hereafter followeth, and not other, or greater: That is to say, upon the Admission of the Heir or Heirs after a Descent, for every Acre of Land (of what Nature and Kind soever) sixteen Pence, and so after that Rate, for greater or lesser Quantities of Land. And upon Admission of one Person only, after any Surrender, the like Sum of sixteen Pence for every Acre; and so after that Rate, for every greater or lesser Quantity of Land. But if more then one Person be admitted after or upon any Surrender; then every of the same Persons are to pay half so much as one Person ought to pay, and not more. Likewise upon Admission of the Heirs or Heir, after a Descent for every Messuage customary, with the Courts, Yards, Easements, Orchards, and Gardens thereunto belonging, for a Fine, the Sum of thirteen Shillings four Pence, and not more. And for a dwelling House, called a Tenement, with the Courts, Yards, Orchards, Easements, and Gardens thereunto belonging, the Sum of ten Shillings, and not more. And for a Cottage, used for a Dwelling, with Easements and Gardens thereunto belonging, or without Garden, and not demised for more than three Pounds by the Year, the Sum of twenty Pence. But for a Building, not used for a dwelling House, so much only as according to the Quantity of the Land, after the Rate of sixteen Pence the Acre. And for greater Cottages used for dwelling, and which shall be let for above three Pounds by the Year, with the Courts, Yards, Orchards, and Easements thereunto belonging, the Sum of ten shillings. And the like is of Messuages, Tenements, and Cottages hereafter to be built. And upon or after any Surrender, at the Admission, the like Fines, are to be paid for one Person. But if any Surrender be made by any Person or Persons, to a Man and his Wife, then a whole Fine is to be paid for the Husband, and half a Fine is to be paid for the Wife. And if more Persons be admitted upon one Surrender; then every of the same Persons are to pay for Fine, half so much as one Person ought to pay, and not more.

All Acres to be accounted, according to the Statute or Ordinance, De terris mensurandis, and Orchards and Gardens not belonging to such Messuages, Tenements, or Cottages, are to pay as Lands according to the Quantity thereof, according to the rate aforesaid. And Parts of Messuages, Parts of Tenements, and Parts of Cottages, are to pay for Fines respectively (in Regard of the whole) according to the Rate of the whole. And all Fines paid, are to be set down and expressed in the Copy of the Court Roll thereof, or in the Margent of the same Copy. And if any Question or Doubt shall hereafter arise, about the Discerning and true Estimation what, or which be, or ought to be accounted a Messuage; and what, or which, a dwelling House, called a Tenement; and what, or which, a Cottage: the same is to be referred to the Homage of the Manour at the next general Court, and by the same to be tried, ordered, determined, and presented, and according to such Presentments, Fines are to be paid.