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Amongst other of this customarie Land, there are seuenteene Mannours,
appertaining to the Duchie of Cornwall, who doe euerie seuenth yere,
take their Holdings (so they terme them) of certaine Commissioners
sent for the purpose, & haue continued this vse, for the best part
of three hundred yeeres, through which, they reckon, a kind of
inheritable estate accrued vnto them. But, this long prescription
notwithstanding, a more busie then well occupied person, not long
sithence, by getting a Checquer lease of one or two such tenements,
called the whole right in question: and albeit God denyed his bad
minde any good successe, yet another taking vp this broken title,
to salue himselfe of a desperate debt, prosecuted the same so far
forth, as he brought it to the iutty of a Nisi prius. Hereon
certayne Gentlemen were chosen and requested by the Tenants, to
become suiters for stopping this gap, before it had made an
irremediable breach. They repayred to London accordingly,
and preferred a petition to the then L.


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