This Indenture made the fower and twentieth day of Aprill Anno Domini 1649 betweene Lewis Leach of Crick wthin the pish of Matharne in the Countie of Monmoth yeoman and Sara his wife of the one ptie and William Lewis of the pish of Lanvihangell torymynith in the said County weaver of the other ptie.  Witnesseth that the said Lewis Leach and Sara his wife for and in consideracon of a marriadge by God’s pmission shortly to be had and solemnized betweene the said William Lewis and Margaret Leach eldest daughter of the said Lewis Leach and Sara his wife and for a competent livelihood to be had and provided for the said Margarett have graunted bargained sold aliened enfeoffed and confirmed and by these presents doe graunte bargaine sett alien enfeoffe and confirme unto the said William Lewis and his heire all? that new erected cottage together wth one garden and one pcell of arrable lande thereunto belonging conteyneing by estimacon three acres or thereabouts scituate lying and being wthin the pish of Porscuet in the said County of Monmoth betweene the landes there called the twenty acres the highway leading from Caldicot to Chepstow, the landes called le slorde? end and the land land late in the tenure of Watkin Gough on all or most ptes and sides thereof.  And the re’con and re’cons remainder and remainders of all and singular the premisses wth thaptenances to have and to hould the said cottage garden and pcell of land with all and singular thapptences unto the said William Lewis and his heires forever to the uses intents and purposes heereafter in and by these presents expressed and declared and to noe other use intent or purpose whatsoever (that is to say) from and ymediatly after the said marriage shall take effect to the use and behoofe of the said William Lewis and Margaret his wife for and dureing the terme of their naturall lives and the life of the longest liver of them and after their deceases and the decease of the longest liver to the use and behoofe of the heires of the body of the said William Lewis upon the body of the said Margaret lawfully begotten or to be begotten and for the want of such issue to the use & behoofe of the heires of the body of the said Margaret lawfully to be begotten and in defaulte of such issue to the use and behoofe of the right heires of the said Lewis Leach forever.  And the said Lewis Leach and Sara his wife doe for themselves their heires and assignes covenant promise and graunte to and with the said William Lewis and his heires that they the said Lewis Leach and Sara his wife now are or one of them is lawfully seised of all and singular the premisses of good perfect and inde...cible estate of inheritance and that they have or one of them hath full power and authority to convey the same and that the same premisses forever heereafter shall remaine and continued to the uses aforesaid cleerely acquitted and dischardged of and from all and all manner of charges and incombrances whatsoever.  And the said Lewis Leach and Sara his wife doe for themselves their heires and assignes further covenant promise and graunte to and wth the said William Lewis and his heires by these pr’tes that they the said Lewis Leach and Sara his wife shall and will from time to time and at all times heereafter dureing the space of seaven yeares next ensueing the date heereof upon the reasonnable request and at the costs and chardges in the lawe of the said William Lewis and his heires make doe acknowledge execute and suffer or cause to be made donne acknowledged executed and suffered all and every such further act and acts thing and things devise and devises in the lawe whatsoever for the more pfect sure makeing and conveying of the pr’misses to the uses aforesaid as by the said William Lewis or his heires or by his or their Councell learned in the lawe shalbe reasonnably devised avised? or required provided that the said Lewis Leach and Sara his wife be not compelled to travaile out of the County of Monmoth for the effecting of any such estate.  In witnes whereof the pties to these pr’tes have inter changeably sett their handes and seales the day and yeare first above written 1649.    William Lewis

Transcribed from a photocopy by Dave Woolven, 2 Aspen Way, Malpas Park, Newport, South Wales.  NP20 6LB    Tel  01633 858 359     29 March 2004

This copy was kindly supplied by Pat Egglestone, Ivy Cottage, Kingcoed, near Usk.  NP15 1DS