CERTIFICATE of Proceedings to be returned by Com missioners, pursuant to a Decree in Equity, for Partition.

BETWEEN, &c.

To the Right Honourable the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.

WE whose names are hereunto subscribed, being the commissioners named in the commission hereunto annexed, do humbly certify unto your lordship, that by virtue and in pursuance of the said commission, we did on Thursday, the day of 1820, assemble and meet together at the house of W. L., com monly called or known by the name of the W. inn, in the town of O. in the county of S., and from thence went to, entered into, and upon, viewed, walked over, and surveyed, the estates and premises in question in this cause, by the aforesaid commission directed to be by us divided and allotted; and we have been attended by the solicitor for the above named complainant, P. C., and also by the defendant, A. N. D., on behalf of himself, and of the defendant M. his wife, and have examined several papers and writings laid before us by the complainant's said solicitor, and by the said defendant A. N. D., and have inspected and examined certain plans and admeasurements laid before us by the said respective parties, and have duly considered the same, and estimated according to the best of our skill the several parts of the said estates and premises, and the timber standing and growing and being thereon; and we find the said estates and premises to consist of the several pieces or parcels of land, messuages or tenements and premises following, that is to say, all that messuage, or dwelling-house, called P. H. with the outbuildings, garden and curtilages thereunto belonging, containing by admeasurement, &c.

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and also all those several pieces or parcelsof land,called, known, or distinguished, by the several names,and containing by admeasurement the several quantities respectively hereinafter named, that is to say, &c. All which said messuage or dwelling-house, outbuildings, garden, curtilages, pieces or parcels of land, and premises are situate, lying and being, in the township of D. in the parish of W. in the county of S. and are now in the occupation of, &c. or his undertenants. Of all which said premises we have caused an accurate map or plan to be made and delivered, and have returned the same hereunto annexed; and we have according to the best of our skill and judgment proceeded to separate, divide and allot, the said estates and premises, into two equal moieties or half parts, or as near thereto as may be, as by the said commission we are commanded, and we humbly certify to your lordship, that we have accordingly allotted, and we do hereby allot, unto the said complainant P. C., as and for his share of the said estates and premises, the messuage and several lands and premises following, that is to say, the said messuage or dwelling-house, called P. H., with the outbuildings thereto belonging, containing by admeasurement, &c.; and also all those said several pieces or parcels of land thereunto belonging, or therewith now occupied, called, known, or distinguished, by the several names, and containing the several quantities by admeasurement, hereinafter mentioned, namely, &c. all which messuage or dwelling-house, buildings, lands and premises, so allotted to the said complainant, are more particularly delineated in the aforesaid map or plan hereunto annexed, and are therein coloured green; and we do hereby direct and declare, that the said part of the eastern side of B. containing, &c. as the same is now marked or staked out from the remainder thereof, shall be separated and divided therefrom, by a fence to be forthwith made at the expence of the complainant P. C., and that the

said fence, when completed, shall henceforth for ever hereafter be deemed and considered as the proper fence of the said P. C.; and we have also allotted, and do hereby allot, unto the said defendant M. D., as and for her moiety of the said estates and premises, one messuage or dwelling-house, and several lands and premises, following, that is to say, all those said several pieces or parcels of land now occupied with and forming part of P. farm, called, known or distinguished, by the several names, and containing the several quantities by admeasurement, hereinafter mentioned, namely, &c. all which last mentioned premises so allotted to the said defendant M. D., are in the aforesaid map or plan hereunto annexed, coloured pink or red; the aforesaid allotments to be held and enjoyed by the said respective parties in severalty; and we further humbly certify unto your lordship, that the aforesaid two several allotments comprise the whole of the estates and premises in question in this cause, by the said commission hereunto annexed di rected to be by us divided and allotted between the complainant and the said defendant M. D., and that our aforesaid partition division and allotment thereof is made in as due and equal proportion as possibly may be, and as the evidence laid before us, and our personal inspection and valuation of the said estates and premises have enabled us to do. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals, this day of in the first year of the reign of his majesty King George the Fourth, in the year of our Lord 1820.

A. B.

C. D.

E. F.

G. H.

The Commission Annexed.

George the Fourth, by the grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, To A. B., C. D., E. F., and G. H., gentlemen, greeting; Whereas by a decree pronounced in our High Court of Chancery, bearing date, &c. upon the hearing of a certain cause depending in our said court, wherein P. C. an infant, by his next friend, is complainant, and A. N. D. and M. his wife, are defendants; it was ordered and decreed, that a partition should be made of the estate in question; and it was, amongst other things, ordered, that a commission should issue, directed to certain commissioners to be therein named, to divide the estates in question into two equal moieties, and that one of such moieties should be allotted as the share of the complainant, and the other of such moieties should be allotted as the share of the defendant M. D.; and it was ordered, that the complainant and the said defendant should hold and enjoy their respective moieties in severalty, according to such allotments; and it was ordered, that all deeds and writings relating to the said estate should be produced before the commissioners upon oath, as they should require, and the commissioners were to be at liberty to examine witnesses upon oath, and take their depositions in writing, and return the same, with the said commission; now know ye, that we, in confidence of your prudence and fidelity, have appointed you, and do by these presents give full power and authority unto you, any three or two of you, and hereby command you, that you, any three or two of you, do assemble and meet together, at certain proper and convenient times and places, by you, any three or two of you, to be for that purpose appointed, and that you, any three or two of you, do from thence go to,

enter upon, walk over and survey, the estates and premises in question, in the said decree and pleadings of this cause mentioned, and according to the best of your skill, knowledge and judgment, make a fair particular division and allotment thereof, and the same separate, set apart, and divide into moieties, and allot and appoint one moiety thereof, as and for the share of the complainant, and the other moiety thereof, as and for the share of the said defendant, M. D., to be held and enjoyed by the complainant, and by the said M. D., in severalty, according to the true intent and meaning of the said recited decree; and the parts so divided to distinguish and separate, by certain metes and bounds, and for the better making such division, we do hereby authorize and empower you, any three or two of you, to cause all such witnesses as you shall see occasion, to come before you, and then and there examine each and every of them apart upon their respective corporal oaths, upon the Holy Evangelists first taken before you, any three or two of you, upon such interrogatories in writing, as you shall see occasion, to discover and make out the truth of the premises; and to take the depositions of such witnesses in writing, and cause the same to be plainly and fairly ingrossed or written on parchment; and when ye have done and performed those things, ye shall certify and return into our said Court of Chancery, without delay, wheresoever our said court shall then be, your facts and proceedings in the premises, by your certificate fairly written on parchment, together with the said depositions and interrogatories if any as also this writ, closed up under the seal of you, any three or two of you. Witness ourselves at Westminster, the, &c. in the first year of our reign,