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Court of Chancery: bill of complaint Ducke vs Ducke, 28 November 1663.

(Catalogue reference: C 10/487/83)

1. To the Right Hono[ra]ble Edward Earle of Clarendon
2. Lord Chancellor of England.

[Margin] 28 No[vember] 1663 Wilkinsons

3. In all humble manner Complayninge Yo[u]r Orator Richard Ducke of Ide in the Countye of Devon gent[leman] Sheweth Unto Yo[u]r good Lordshipp That in or about the Moneth
4. of August in the Yeare of o[u]r Lord god One Thousand Sixe hundred Fiftye Nyne, haveing then A p[ar]ticuler Estate in A Messuage & Tenem[en]t in Heavytree in the s[ai]d County of
5. Devon And one Phillipp Ducke of Heavytree afores[ai]d gent[leman] being desirous to deale w[i]th Yo[u]r Orator for his Estate therein & to have him to p[ro]cure A newe Estate in the same
6. from the Landlord thereof to be graunted unto the s[ai]d Phillipp Ducke his Executor & Assignes for Nynety Nyne Years determinable on the Deathes of Three such p[er]sons as he
7. should Nominate & treatinge w[i]th Yo[u]r Orator thereabout & p[re]feringe him an Under Valewe for the same to witt the sum[m]e of Twenty Pounds Current English money at least
8. lesse then the s[ai]d p[re]misses were truly worth & he thereupon being about to breake offe his former treaty with the fores[ai]d Phillipp Ducke, which one Richard Ducke of
9. Heavytree afores[ai]d gent[leman] sonne & heire apparent of the fores[ai]d Phillipp Ducke & who was p[re]sent at the s[ai]d Treaty observing;