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The surrender deed (17)
To all the faithful of Christ to whom this present writing
shall come, we, John Ripley, abbot of the monastery of Kirkstall
in Yorkshire, and the convent of the same place, everlasting greeting
in the Lord. Know that we, the aforesaid abbot and convent, by our
unanimous assent and consent, with steady minds, of our certain
knowledge and proper motion, and certain just and reasonable causes
spiritually moving us, our souls and consciences, have freely and
of our own accord given and granted, and by these presents we give
and grant, surrender, deliver and confirm to the most illustrious
and invincible prince, our Lord Henry VIII, by the Grace of God
king of England and France, defender of Faith, lord of Ireland and
Supreme Head of the Church of England upon earth, our entire house
and monastery, namely, the site, ground, circuit and enclosure,
and the church of the same monastery with all our debts, chattels
and moveables belonging or appertaining to us or our monastery;
and also those we at present possess as much as those which are
due to us or our monastery either by bonds or by any other cause,
in any way whatsoever. Likewise every manor and each lordship, messuage,
garden, curtilage,
toft, land and tenement,
meadow, grazing, pasture, wood, underwood, all revenues, reversions
and services, mills, passages,
knights fees,
wards, marriage fees,
born villeins with all their followers, liberties, franchises, privileges,
jurisdictions, offices, courts
leet and hundred,
view of frank-pledge,
fairs, markets, parks, warrens, enclosures, waters, fisheries, roads,
paths, wharfs, empty homesteads, advowsons
nominations, presentations and donations of churches, vicarages,
chapels, chantries, hospices and other benefices whatsoever, rectories,
chantries, vicarages, pensions, procurations, annuities, tithes,
oblations and all other emoluments, profits, possessions, and hereditaments
within the counties of York and Lancaster, in the city of York and
elsewhere in the kingdom of England, Wales and the Marches that
belong in any way to our monastery, whether annexed, appertaining
or incumbent. And all charters, of every kind, evidences, bonds,
writings and muniments that belong or appertain to us or our monastery,
relating to lands, tenements or the other premises, with their appurtenances
or any parcel thereof, in any manner to have, hold, and enjoy our
said monastery and the aforesaid site, ground, circuit and precinct
of our aforesaid church, with all our debts, goods and chattels;
as also every one of our manors, lordships, messuages, lands and
tenements, rectories, pensions and all other premises whatsoever,
with all their appurtenances, to the said most invincible, our King,
his heirs and successors and assigns, to the use of the same lord,
our King, his heirs and successors for ever. To this behalf and
to all effect of law that can or may thence follow, we, as becomes
us, do submit ourselves and our said monastery with all premises
and everything that is ours, in whatever way acquired; giving and
granting, and by these presents we give and grant to his said Royal
Majesty, his heirs and successors and assigns the full authority
and power to dispose of us and our said monastery, together with
all manors, lands and tenements, reversions, revenues and services
and all the premises, with all their customs and appurtenances whatsoever,
that he may dispose of, alienate, give, pass or transfer them at
his own free will and pleasure, to whatsoever uses it shall seem
good to His Majesty; and we do ratify such dispositions, alienations,
donations, conversions and translations, whatsoever way they shall
be made by the aforesaid Royal Majesty. Moreover we permit [illegible
word] to the end that all and singular the premises may be for ever
firm, and that all the premises may have their due effect. And we
renounce and disclaim, as we have renounced and disclaimed, all
elections, suits and instances, and all other remedies and redresses
whatsoever for ourselves and our successors, on pretence of the
aforesaid disposition, alienation, translation and conversion, and
of the other premised that is or may be competent, on account of
deceit, dread, fear, ignorance or other matter, wholly laying aside
and quitting dispositions, exceptions, objections and allegations,
openly, publicly and expressly, of our certain knowledge, and that
of our own accord; and we do recede from them in this writing.
And we, the aforesaid abbot and convent, and our successors, will,
by these presents, warrant and forever defend against all peoples,
to our aforesaid lord, the King, his heir, successors and assigns,
to the aforesaid use of our monastery and the entire site, ground,
circuit, precinct, mansion and church, and the aforesaid manors,
lordships, gardens, curtileges, tofts, meadows, grazings, pastures,
woods, underwoods, lands and tenements, revenues, reversions and
services, and all the premises, with all their members and appurtenances;
in testimony whereof, we, the aforesaid abbot and convent, have
with our own hands in our name subscribed to this present writing,
and affixed our common seal to these presents.
Given in the chapter-house, on the twenty-second day of the month
of November, in the thirty-first year of the reign of King Henry
VIII, in the year 1539.
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