Lord of the said Manours, or of either of them, or his Steward, may appoint the one of them so elected for one whole Year; that is, one to serve for each of the said Manours; so he be appointed within that Manour of which he is a Tenant, and for which he shall be so chosen. Which Reeve being so appointed, ought to take upon him the said Office for one whole Year then next ensuing, to execute the same by himself or his Deputy, for whom he shall answer, and to be subject to account and answer for the same, as in the said Presents is set down.

And if a Copyholder shall be duly chosen, and appointed by the Homage, to be the Lords Reeve, as aforesaid, and (according to his Turn) presented by the Homage, and shall refuse to serve the said Office by himself or his Deputy: then every such Person so refusing, within the said Manour of Hackney, shall pay for a Fine, six Pounds thirteen Shillings and four Pence. And every such Person so refusing, within the said Manours of Stebinhith or Stepney, shall pay for a Fine, ten Pounds to the Lord of the Manour, whereof his Lands are holden. And the Homage of the same Manour shall be charged from time to time to chuse another Reeve, in the Place of him that shall so refuse, until such time as (for the same Manour) one be chosen that shall and will serve the said Office. And every Copyholder that shall be chosen and appointed to the said Office as aforesaid, and shall refuse to serve the same Office, shall pay the Fine aforesaid to the Lord of that Manour for his Refusal. The one half of all which Fines or Fine, of Tenant or Tenants so refusing to accept and execute the said Office of Reeveship, according to the true meaning of these Scedules, the Lord or Lords of the said Manours, or either of them, of whom such Tenant or Tenants so refusing shall hold, ought, and shall from time to time allow unto such Person or Persons, as being chosen and appointed to be Reeve as aforesaid: And shall and will, next after the Refusal of any one or more of the said Tenants so chosen, accept and serve the said Office; the Moity of the said Fine or Fines, respectively to be by him defaulked and retained in his Account. And by the Lord of that Manour, upon the same Reeves Account (whensoever he shall account for the same) to be duly and justly allowed.

ITem, If any Copyholder, that shall accept, and execute the said Office of Reeve, shall refuse to satisfie and pay unto the Lord, the Yearly Quit- rents and Fines for Admittances upon Alienations or Descents, wherewith such Reeve shall or may be lawfully charged, by and according to the true meaning of these Presents; or shall refuse to account with the Lord, within two Months next Yearly after Michaelmas, having had the Rental and Estracts of Fines upon Admittances, as aforesaid, for that Year, by the Space of two Months: Every such Reeves Lands and Tenements, that shall so refuse to account, and pay the said Rents and Fines which he shall or may have collected, as aforesaid, shall be seized into the Lords Hands, and the Lord shall and may take to his own Use the Issues and Profits of his said Lands and Tenements, until he shall pay unto the Lord the Rents and Fines aforesaid: And until he hath also satisfied and paid for his said Offence (viz.) being Reeve of Hackney, six Pounds thirteen Shillings four Pence: And being Reeve of Stepney, ten Pounds. Nevertheless, the Reeve ought not, nor shall be charged or chargeable to answer any Quit-rents, contained in any Rental or Estracts, unless it appear unto him by the Rental of the former Reeve, or otherwise be made known unto him by some of the Lords Officers, who is the Tenant, or where the Land lieth; for and in Respect of which, the same Quit-rents ought to be paid.

ITem, No Copyholder of the said Manours, or of either of them, being named Parties to the said Indenture, nor their Heirs or Assigns, ought or shall (at any time) be charged to collect or gather any of the Amerciaments, Fines, or other Issues or Profits of the Courts Leets, or Courts Baron, holden within the said Manours, or of either of them, otherwise then in the last precedent Article is mentioned: Nor to provide or allow for any Dinners, either on the Day or Days the Court Leet shall be holden upon, or on the Day or Days of the two general Courts: but are and shall be thereof for ever freed and discharged; except that such Tenant, or his Heirs, shall hereafter purchase or have other customary Lands then those that the said Persons, named Parties to the said Indenture, or some one of them the said Persons do now hold, which shall be worth to be sold (at the least) two Hundred Pounds of lawful Money of England, or shall be of the clear Yearly value of twenty Pounds of like Money.

ITem, Every one of the said customary Tenants, named Parties to the said Indenture, whose Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, holden by Copy of Coutt Roll of either of the said Manours, are worth sixteen Pounds of like Money, as aforesaid, by the Year to be let, or two Hundred Pounds to be sold, by the Estimation and Presentment of the Homage of the same Manour, shall bear the Office of Reeve, of and for such of the said Manours whereof he shall be a Tenant by Copy of Court Roll, and for which he shall be ehosen and appointed Reeve, as aforesaid, when his or their Time and Course doth come.

ITem, Every of the said Reeves, is to be allowed of the said Lords or Lord, for the executing of the said Office for one Year, as followeth, viz. The Reeve of Stebinhith, three Pounds six Shillings and eight Pence: and six Shillings eight Pence more, for and in Respect of an Allowance of a Coat Cloth to the said Reeve: And the Reeve of Hackney, fifty three Shillings and four Pence; and six Shillings eight Pence more, for and in Respect of an Allowance of a Coat Cloth to the same Reeve: And all other Commodities due and incident to the said Office, for either of them, or used heretofore to be paid to the said Reeve, by any of the Tenants of the said Manours respectively.