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‘Right Wor: our very hartie commendations, remembred. Yt may please you to understand that wee have hard and considerid of the cause of Daventrie Lease at large, and in the presence of your solicitor Mr. Powel Isaack did desire the benifit of our former Agreement from which he himself fled when he should have performed yt; but wee supposing his Lease not voydable but Avoyded, though he desire[d] to confer with you yet wee thought good to signifie unto you that wee are resolved to pas at Lease unto you thereof so as provision for our house be made according to the statute of improvement. And that the royalties and Courte be ascentire (?) unto us And that you can in some reasonable sort satisfie the sayd Isaak And other tenants to whome he standeth bound in Covenants as in your Lrs. you have formerly promised unto us. And so wee hartely comend you unto the Tuition of almighte God. From Oxon this 12th of Julie 1589.’ (Copy of a letter to the Dean.) 12 July 1598.